Pamir Sahill is a journalist for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Prague. He reports on politics and security in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Two years after Pakistan merged the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the administrative and political mainstream, disputes over land ownership have emerged as a dominant form of conflict in the western region.
A series of recent high-profile rape and child sexual abuse cases in Pakistan has spurred a debate over how to curb the incidence of violent crimes that mostly target women and children.
Members of Pashtun tribes in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber district are reluctant to end their protest over the alleged extrajudicial killing of a local young man.
A prominent Sikh rights campaigner and political activist from Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province has fled the country after facing harassment and attacks.
Pakistan has offered new concessions to China in a visible effort to revive economic relations with the neighboring giant.
In 2013, a bombing at a market in Peshawar struck a passing wedding party, killing 18 members of one family. One survivor who was seriously injured is now helping to raise 12 children who lost one or both parents in the attack.
The Pakistani village Shah Hassan Khel is struggling to move on eight years after a devastating suicide attack killed more than 120 spectators and players at a volleyball match.
On August 15, a senior Pakistani official told Radio Mashaal that authorities would block Twitter if it fails to cooperate with Islamabad's concerns over material that it says violates its laws and customs.
Pakistan and Russia have reached a military cooperation deal that includes sending Pakistani soldiers to Russia for training, the countries' defense ministries have announced.
The chief of Afghanistan's fledgling air force says it is ready to face any threats during the fighting season because they are armed with new aircraft and have learned lessons from last year’s violent insurgent campaign.
Afghanistan's new ambassador to Pakistan hopes to persuade Islamabad that peace and stability in his country will also serve's Pakistan's national interests.
A leading politician from Pakistan's restive southwestern province of Balochistan claims Chinese investments threaten residents instead of bringing prosperity to his marginalized homeland.
Kabul is reportedly expected to receive Russian-made attack helicopters from New Delhi. The deal has raised eyebrows in India's regional archrival, Pakistan.
A global human rights watchdog has called on Pakistan to end a dramatic rise in executions and even move toward abolition of the death penalty all together.
A leading global rights watchdog has strongly condemned the ongoing spate of terror executions in Pakistan.
A Pakistani minister has rejected claims of alleged changes to a major road and rail network linking China with a new Pakistani port on the Arabian Sea.
The Pakistani government distances itself from comments by the country's national security adviser making a distinction between militants fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Little concrete proof exists to back the media hype about Islamic State militants possibly taking over Pakistan's jihadist conglomerate.
