Abubakar Siddique, a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Azadi, specializes in the coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key To The Future Of ...

During their rule in the 1990s, Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban banned photography, television, and the Internet by declaring that taking pictures of living things was forbidden in Islam.

The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan is now back in parts of Malakand Division, an administrative region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where thousands were killed and millions displaced during years of ...

Attan historically originated as a war dance among the Pashtun tribes that now straddle Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region.

FAYZABAD, Afghanistan -- Melting glaciers in a remote Afghan province pose a major threat to the country’s water resources, climate, and economic prospects. Ziaul Haq Kamran heads Afghanistan’s ...

Frequent reports of targeted assassinations, clashes, and attacks on security forces leave the residents of Waziristan worried over the specter of the region in western Pakistan relapsing into anarchy ...

Home to several secular political movements, the vast mineral-rich province of Balochistan in southwestern Pakistan once prided itself on tolerance and diversity as its various religious and ethnic ...

The rising number of executions of former army and police in Afghanistan is being taken as clear evidence that the Taliban is not living up to its pledges of a general amnesty for all members of the ...

Hopes for ending four decades of war in Afghanistan are high this week after a Loya Jirga or grand assembly of more than 3,000 political elites, tribal leaders, clerics, and activists approved the ...

A language dispute has erupted in Afghanistan after the BBC labeled the Facebook page of its local service BBC Dari, a name rejected by Afghan Persian speakers who prefer their language to be known as ...

In Afghanistan's Pashtun tribal heartland, many turn to tribal councils instead of state courts for swift justice and unlikely routes to reconciliation.