Daud Khattak is the managing editor of RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal. He is based in Prague and reports on social, political, and security issues in Pakistan.
The Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan is now back in parts of Malakand Division, an administrative region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where thousands were killed and millions displaced during years of Taliban control and military operations.
A diplomatic spat between close allies Pakistan and Saudi Arabia has exposed serious fissures in their relationship.
Pakistan is cracking down on social-media platforms, with critics accusing authorities of trying to control the free flow of information.
Pakistan has capitulated to pressure from hard-line Islamic clerics and politicians to halt construction on Islamabad's first Hindu temple.
Pakistan's leaders have championed a Turkish television drama that has triggered debate in the Muslim-majority country.
The Pakistani government, backed by the powerful military, is seeking to roll back a decade-old constitutional amendment that made it harder for the military to seize power.
The coronavirus pandemic is the latest obstacle in efforts to eradicate the crippling polio disease in Pakistan.
With Pakistan under an unpopular lockdown aimed at fighting the coronavirus pandemic raging around the world, a large portion of the country's devout and poverty-stricken people are resisting limits on physical and social contacts and their mobility.
A spate of recent attacks and harassment appear to target high-profile Pakistani journalists and bloggers living in self-imposed exile in Europe.
Journalist Marvi Sirmed, a leading Pakistani rights campaigner, says extremists, fanatics, and mobsters cannot stop their peaceful protests.
Since Pakistan's Ahmadi minority sect refuse to declare themselves non-Muslims, they have been stuck in legal limbo, leaving them without fundamental human rights such as access to education and the right to vote.
Up to 3,000 journalists have been laid off in Pakistan over the last year. With the country's traditional media industry in crisis, some unemployed journalists have started up their own digital outlets while others have left the business altogether.
Three Pakistani TV news channels were abruptly taken off the air, the latest in a series of moves by authorities against the free press in Pakistan.
Prominent journalists in Pakistan are self-publishing on social media because they have no other outlet.
Pakistani media are in an uproar after a court issued an arrest warrant for a prominent journalist.
Pakistan is seeing an unprecedented number of extremists and militant groups running in national elections on July 25.
In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL, India's ex-spy chief discusses co-writing an explosive new book with Pakistan's former intelligence head.
A free press has long been under attack in Pakistan, and things are getting worse instead of better.
Thousands of women and children made an emotional plea for the release of their family members during a rally by the Pashtun community in Pakistan.
Manzoor Pashteen is leading a new Pashtun movement in Pakistan, where many are comparing him to a revered leader in the nonviolence movement during the British Raj in the 20th century.
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