Daud Khattak is a senior international correspondent covering the Near East in RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom. He was previously the managing editor of RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
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.
In an interview career diplomat Richard G. Olson weighs in on whether there is hope for salvaging the now-troubled relations between the two countries.
Michael Kugelman assesses what lies ahead for relations between Islamabad and Washington after U.S. President Donald Trump said his country received “lies and deceit” after giving Pakistan more than $33 billion in assistance since 9/11.
A Pakistani political party that once promised to cleanse the upper echelons of government from corruption is now falling apart over graft allegations among the members of its provincial administration.
RFE/RL’s Gandhara website has obtained some details of the gruesome murder of a 12-year-old girl killed over maligning her family’s honor by reportedly eloping with a young man last month.
A 12-year-old Pakistani girl was killed by her family after she eloped with a boy, according to accounts by villagers and officials in the northwestern tribal district of Khyber.
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