Bashir Ahmad Gwakh is a correspondent for RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal. He is based in Prague and reports on Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Talia Khattak says she was finally allowed to briefly meet with her father, Idris Khattak. The Pakistani human rights campaigner mysteriously disappeared last year but was later charged with spying under a colonial-era law.
Author Hussain Haqqani, a former Pakistani ambassador to the United States, believes the recent deal between the U.S. and the Taliban provides a real opportunity for peace in the region.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government is ready to release three key Taliban prisoners including Anas Haqqani, the younger brother of Sirajjuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, in exchange for two professors of the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul.
Prominent Pakistani human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, who has fled to the United States after being on the run from authorities for months, has vowed to continue her “struggle” for democracy in Pakistan.
To address its financial woes, Pakistan is now discussing a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In an interview with Radio Mashaal, the IMF's representative in Islamabad, Teresa Daban Sanchez, weighed in on the talks with Islamabad.
Krishna Kumari Kohli election as a representative of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in the 104-member Senate is being hailed as a good omen for Pakistan’s religious minorities, whose members often report discrimination and oppression.
Speaking to RFE/RL Radio Mashaal, leading analyst and author Ahmed Rashid discusses the challenges ahead and potential sanctions the U.S. government may impose on Pakistan.
In order to build trust with the Taliban, Afghanistan is working to bring back insurgent detainees from neighboring Pakistan.
When Naureen Laghari began following Islamist pages on Facebook, she had little idea that she was joining a web of cyber radicalization.
As Afghanistan’s nearly four-decade old war seems to have no end in sight, a former first daughter traces her father’s footsteps toward reconciliation among Afghans as the roadmap to peace in the country.
Raymond Davis, a U.S. government contractor, became a household name in Pakistan in January 2011 after killing two people on a busy road in the eastern city of Lahore. Davis claimed the men, identified as Pakistani citizens, were armed and wanted to harm him. Soon after his arrest, Pakistani Islamist political parties turned his case into evidence of Washington’s interference and clamored for severe punishment.
A senior Afghan official has rejected a preliminary peace plan backed by the Taliban insurgents that could lead to a final reconciliation deal possibly ending nearly four decades of war in Afghanistan.
Hina Rabbani Khar served as Pakistan’s foreign minister from 2011 to 2013. She urged Islamabad to revive their administration’s foreign policy approach of maintaining good relations with neighboring countries.
Afghanistan’s national security adviser, Hanif Atmar warns neighboring countries that promoting security in Afghanistan and defeating radical Islamist factions are necessary for regional stability
Afghanistan is mourning the murder of a promising young Afghan legal scholar who resisted joining the brain drain to the West and instead chose to educate his countrymen at Kabul’s American University, where he was killed in a militant attack.
The first Oscar winner in Pakistan's history is back in the Hollywood limelight this weekend as Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy's unflinching new documentary about honor killings, A Girl In The River: The Price Of Forgiveness, competes for an Academy Award.
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 Afghan people smuggler takes us inside the migrant-trafficking business in Europe, and talks about his own conversion from a victim to a profiteer.
