Abdul Hai Kakar is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
Will addressing the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement's demands help Pakistan achieve greater stability, harmony among its diverse population, greater democratization, and establishing the rule of law?
Returning to Pakistan for Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai’s mother, Thorpekai Yousafzai, was a dream come true.
An organization in Pakistan’s insurgency-wreaked regions says its preliminary lists have identified thousands of people who have disappeared over the past 15 years.
If his recent temporary abduction was aimed at deterring a Pakistani blogger from airing critical views of his country’s powerful security establishment and dangerous Islamist militants, his tormenters were dead wrong.
A Pashtun leader who had questioned Pakistani military operations in his North Waziristan homeland has been assassinated in southeastern Afghanistan, where he had been living in exile for more than two years.
In a move likely to roil the rapidly deteriorating relations between New Delhi and Islamabad, an exiled separatist leader from Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has decided to apply for asylum in India.
A separatist faction in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has called on India to intervene in the simmering conflict in the region. In 1971, Bangladesh emerged after Indian forces defeated the Pakistani military to end a gruesome civil war.
The killing of a generation of lawyers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in a suicide attack has paused the wheels of justice in the vast region reeling from separatist and Islamist violence and a harsh military crackdown.
Rights campaigners and lawmakers in Pakistan have called for dissolving an organization tasked with providing Islamic theological advice to lawmakers after it stirred controversy with recommendations for mistreating women.
Pakistan's effort to counter a simmering separatist insurgency in southwestern Balochistan Province has displaced hundreds of thousands of civilians, but their plight remains invisible as they receive little attention from national authorities and international aid groups.
In an unusual public display of their role in the Afghan insurgency, scores of alleged Pakistani fighters were recently buried in a remote district of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province after being killed by security forces in neighboring Afghanistan.
An exiled Baluch separatist leader sees no future for major Chinese investments aimed at linking the country's western Xinjiang region with the Arabian Sea through Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
In a major blow to a simmering secessionist struggle from Pakistan, one of the most influential Baluch separatist leaders is expected to reconcile with Islamabad after engaging in secret talks with the government.
During their bloodiest campaign in 14 years, the Taliban have captured large swaths of Afghan territory this year. What is really behind this military momentum that has even raised the specter of a Taliban return to power in Afghanistan?
Human rights defenders in a restive Pakistani province have rejected government claims that the counterinsurgency militias it once supported have stopped extrajudicial killings.
Lawmakers from Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas say the country's powerful military is backing proposed legislation aimed at integrating the restive region into the mainstream.
Pakistan claims to be a major victim of terrorism but newspapers, magazines, and websites supporting violence are thriving and have nearly achieved the status of an industry in the country.
The most senior elected official in Pakistan's restive Balochistan Province is advocating peace negotiations to end a decade-old separatist insurgency.
No child should have to grow up amid fear and war, according to Kailash Satyarthi, and the Indian Nobel Peace Prize laureate is looking to join forces with co-winner Malala Yousafzai to ensure that none have to.
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