Pakistan, January 14: Pakistan seems to be increasingly teetering on the verge of a split once again. After the Balochistan and Sindh, the Islamic republic is now seeing another armed group being set ...

On the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan, in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains, tribesmen here know him as the “Afghan Warrior Poet.” Like thousands of his fellow Pashtun brothers from the ...

PESHAWAR: Greater Pashtunistan rallying cry, Lar ao bar yao Afghan, which connotes that all people in Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Pashto speaking regions are Afghans by ethnicity, has remained on the ...

(RFE/RL) January 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- For many ethnic Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan, "Pashtunistan" is the idea of an historic homeland that was divided in 1893 by the Durand Line -- a ...

Benazir Bhutto's narrow escape from assassination recently was a grim reminder she'll be lucky to get through the coming election alive. Even if she does, the vote may prove a charade, and Bhutto ...

Relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan have remained strained due to the Durand Line dispute. Successive Afghan governments refused to recognise the Durand Line as a legitimate border between the ...

We were encouraged by the news we reported yesterday from Brussels that a new U.S. and NATO approach to Afghanistan is being formulated that aims to be more comprehensive and multilateral. We are also ...

The mess in Pakistan should make us miss the Cold War — really miss it. There was a time when Washington could call up Islamabad and order a jihad on the Red Army occupying Afghanistan — and Islamabad ...

The first time insurgents burned down Hazratullah's school, he helped rebuild it with donated carpets and salvaged chalkboards. But when Taliban fighters returned with guns and gasoline, torching his ...

The Afghan War Diary leaks didn't so much reveal as confirm. Specifically, the documents gave merit to suspicions that the ISI is working with the Taliban, and, thanks to fantastic maps from the ...