Pamir Sahill is a journalist with RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
As many as 11 policemen have been killed and 10 others injured in an August 22 ambush by robbers in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province, one of the deadliest attacks against law enforcement in the restive region in recent times.
Three Pakistani soldiers have been killed and another one wounded in a militant attack in the North Waziristan tribal district, near the Afghan border, in the latest spate of attacks on security forces and government officials in the area, a senior security official said.
Pakistan's fence of more than 2,500 kilometers along its border with Afghanistan has forced Pashtun communities straddling the border to lose businesses, jobs, land, travel rights, and family ties.
Keeping one's head down is a survival strategy in North Wazristan. The region is reeling from a string of targeted killings that are often attributed to the regrouping of the Taliban in the region, which has suffered from military operations and Taliban atrocities.
Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of conflict in the western region.
A series of recent high-profile rape and child sexual abuse cases in Pakistan has spurred a debate over how to curb the incidence of violent crimes that mostly target women and children.
Members of Pashtun tribes in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber district are reluctant to end their protest over the alleged extrajudicial killing of a local young man.
A prominent Sikh rights campaigner and political activist from Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has fled the country after facing harassment and attacks.
Pakistan has offered new concessions to China in a visible effort to revive economic relations with the neighboring giant.
In 2013, a bombing at a market in Peshawar struck a passing wedding party, killing 18 members of one family. One survivor who was seriously injured is now helping to raise 12 children who lost one or both parents in the attack.
The Pakistani village Shah Hassan Khel is struggling to move on eight years after a devastating suicide attack killed more than 120 spectators and players at a volleyball match.
On August 15, a senior Pakistani official told Radio Mashaal that authorities would block Twitter if it fails to cooperate with Islamabad's concerns over material that it says violates its laws and customs.
Pakistan and Russia have reached a military cooperation deal that includes sending Pakistani soldiers to Russia for training, the countries' defense ministries have announced.
A huge leak of over 11 million documents from a Panama-based law firm has revealed how global elites, including associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, have hidden away vast sums of money.
The chief of Afghanistan's fledgling air force says it is ready to face any threats during the fighting season because they are armed with new aircraft and have learned lessons from last year’s violent insurgent campaign.
Afghanistan's new ambassador to Pakistan hopes to persuade Islamabad that peace and stability in his country will also serve's Pakistan's national interests.
A leading politician from Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan claims Chinese investments threaten residents instead of bringing prosperity to his marginalized homeland.
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