Daud Khattak is managing editor of RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
The coronavirus pandemic is the latest obstacle in efforts to eradicate the crippling polio disease in Pakistan.
With half of Pakistan under a very unpopular lockdown, many are reluctant to obey the official orders that limit physical and social contacts and restrict mobility. There are concerns that the continued closure of businesses and places of worship could result in a sharp backlash in the religiously conservative and economically weak country.
A spate of recent attacks and harassment appear to target high-profile Pakistani journalists and bloggers living in self-imposed exile in Europe.
A Pakistani university prompted outrage when it banned female students from wearing lipstick on campus.
There has been an outcry in Pakistan after a lawyers' association demanded its members declare their faith.
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.
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.
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