Abdul Hai Kakar is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
For relatives, the fate of their disappeared loved ones in Pakistan is a constant agony.
As infection rates and death toll mount across Pakistan because of a growing coronavirus outbreak, the country’s healthcare system is facing an unprecedented crisis amid a lack of beds, oxygen, and medicine, as well as attacks on medical staff
For decades, remittances from hundreds of thousands of expatriate workers in the Gulf have proved a lifeline for Pakistan’s fledgling economy.
They braved great risks to flee danger in their Balochistan homeland in southwestern Pakistan, where thousands have been killed and disappeared amid a separatist rebellion that began two decades ago.
Woman are not the only victims of so-called "honor crimes" in Pakistan.
Across Pakistan, hundreds of families of people accused of committing blasphemy face economic ruin, their reputation tarnished and social isolation even if such accusations are based on trumped-up charges.
Pakistani authorities are investigating five prominent journalists and a blogger for displaying the photo of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s on social media during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s visit to Pakistan last month.
Major cities across Pakistan’s restive southwestern province of Balochistan have been shut down as part of a protest strike against the alleged killing of a senior leader of a Pashtun civil rights movement by police.
Mullah Fazlullah's reported death in a U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan last week has prompted many of his prominent victims to questioned Islamabad’s counterterrorism gains given that most senior Taliban figures were reportedly killed in attacks by unmanned U.S. drone aircrafts.
Manzoor Pashteen says the beatings, sleeplessness, harassment, searches, questioning, and constant surveillance he endured during that journey on May 12 and 13 have strengthened his resolve and made it crystal-clear to him why the authorities were desperate to prevent him from addressing tens of thousands of supporters in Karachi.
Thousands of residents in northwestern Pakistan are staging a sit-in protest to pressure authorities into arresting those responsible for a string of recent murders.
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.
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