Monawar Shah is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
Recent bomb attacks in a northwestern Pakistani district have raised fears about the possible return of the Taliban.
A mass panic thwarted a campaign to eradicate the deadly polio virus in a Pakistani province.
Human rights campaigners say proposed reforms in Pakistan’s tribal areas still fall short of extending fundamental rights and establishing the rule of law in the restive region reeling from more than a decade of Taliban insurgency and Pakistani military operations.
After years of opposition, Pakistan appears to be backing U.S. drone strikes against Islamic extremists in its northwestern border region with Afghanistan.
Pakistani lawmakers are making a determined effort to extend rights to the northwestern tribal areas that already apply to citizens of Pakistan in other regions.
The killing of thousands of clan leaders in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas has destroyed leadership among the ethnic Pashtun tribes inhabiting one of the country’s most embattled regions.
