Abdul Hai Kakar is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
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.
Malala Yousafzai's father, Ziauddian, and mother, Thorpekai, have done much to turn their eldest child into an independent individual who is courageous and articulate.
The party calling for the dissolution of the government faces dissent within its own ranks.
Ziauddin Yousafzai, father of famous education activist Malala Youzafzai, claims his daughter is the victim of a “systematic propaganda campaign” in their home country, Pakistan.
Six weeks after beginning a hunger strike, a college student in Pakistan is following through with his pledge to starve himself to protest the enforced disappearances of Baluch activists.
Thousands of members of Pakistan's tiny Hindu minority are fleeing to neighboring India to escape increasing persecution in their Muslim-majority country.
Lawyers and judges across Pakistan are avoiding blasphemy cases in the wake of high- profile murders targeting those who have sought to defend people accused of insulting Islam.
A quiet, little-know bureaucrat has emerged as Pakistan's point man for concluding peace with the Taliban, whose ruthless decade-old insurgency has killed tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers.
A break in suspected U.S. drone strikes against Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders in northwestern Pakistan appears to be helping Islamabad's efforts to negotiate peace with the insurgents.
Radio Mashaal correspondent Abdul Hai Kakar recently visited his native Pakistan. He discovered a fragmented nation threatened by religious extremism.
