Majeed Babar is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague.
A lockdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic has destroyed most of this year’s honey crop in Pakistan while hitting beekeepers and traders with millions of dollars in losses.
The coronavirus pandemic has devastated tourism in an alpine valley of northwestern Pakistan that had barely recovered from years of Taliban control and the military operations that displaced the region’s entire population a decade ago.
Artists are often inspired by their environment. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, two painters are using their art to raise awareness about some of the most pressing issues in their country.
Thousands of disabled miners in Shangla, a picturesque but impoverished mountainous district in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, are struggling to survive amid neglect and a lack of assistance.
Many families in Shangla, an impoverished mountainous district in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, have lost loved ones to mining accidents, while others struggle to look after those who were injured or who suffer from diseases caused by harsh working conditions.
Pakistan’s first transgender news anchor hopes her rise will be a source of hope for her long-oppressed community.
A burgeoning sanctuary of radical jihadists has quietly grown along Pakistan’s eastern border with India as Islamabad’s counterterrorism efforts largely concentrate on the country’s western border regions with Afghanistan.
A Pakistani man kidnapped by the Islamic State group in Afghanistan recounts his suffering at the hands of the extremist faction known for executing prisoners.
Pakistan's recent pronouncement to ban two long-time allied Islamist militant groups active in India and Afghanistan has been questioned.
Burnt out homes, destroyed fields, and shattered livelihoods await Pashtun tribespeople from the Tirah Valley who are returning home from Peshawar after intense fighting between the Pakistani army and the Taliban last year forced them to flee.
Negotiators said the both the Pakistani government and the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) consider the release of prisoners a priority issue, and are expected to agree on terms soon.
