Daud Khattak is a senior editor for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
Fake markers are an obstacle in efforts to eradicate the crippling polio disease in Pakistan.
As Pakistan investigates the alleged sex-trafficking of women to China under the guise of marriages, alleged victims are pleading for help from family and supporters back home.
Rimsha, a Pakistani Christian woman, moved to China with a man she met through a marriage agency. Within months, she was sending desperate messages home, saying her husband was forcing her into prostitution. Dozens of Pakistani women have suffered similar fates after being lured into sham marriages.
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.
To enter Pakistan's tribal areas along the Afghan border is like entering a legal "black hole" where residents have little political representation or constitutional protection owing to colonial-era laws. But a new plan aims both to bring modern justice to the restive region and to dissuade residents from joining with militants.
An outcry has erupted in Pakistan over a country-wide antiterrorism operation that minority Pashtuns say targets their community for harassment and "ethnic profiling."
The killing of Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud not only presents the Waziristan-based militant group with a serious leadership crisis, but also casts a pall on much-anticipated peace talks with the government.
One of the many religious minorities whose plight is documented in the latest U.S. State Department report on religious freedom is the Ahmadiyya community, or the Ahmadis.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri has brought tens of thousands of protesters to Islamabad and vows not to leave until the Pakistani government resigns. Who looks set to gain the most from the confrontation?
Influential Pakistani Muslim scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri is world famous for his 2010 fatwa against terrorism. Now, he wants to lead a millions-strong march on Islamabad on January 14 to demand clean parliamentary elections.
Washington has placed a $10 million bounty on one of Pakistan's most prominent radical Islamist leaders. But with no charges against him in Pakistan, can the bounty lead to his arrest?
For six weeks, Pakistan has blocked NATO supply trucks from entering Afghanistan. Now, as Islamabad looks to reset ties with NATO, there is still no certainty about when the border will reopen.
Thousands of truck drivers have found themselves stuck in the road in Pakistan. But it's not road conditions that are preventing them from crossing into Afghanistan to deliver their cargos, it's politics.
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