Attan historically originated as a war dance among the Pashtun tribes that now straddle Afghanistan and Pakistan. Today Attan is often performed at weddings and other celebrations. Some tribal ...

FAYZABAD, Afghanistan -- Melting glaciers in a remote Afghan province pose a major threat to the country’s water resources, climate, and economic prospects. Ziaul Haq Kamran heads Afghanistan’s ...

Syed Ayub Khan, like many other residents of North Waziristan, a district in western Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, is concerned over mounting insecurity in his homeland. Frequent reports of targeted ...

The loss of the child his pregnant mother was carrying makes her assassination a double murder, said the son, one of Negar's 10 surviving children along with her husband. Considering her previous ...

Recalling their last meeting, Talia says that a day before his disappearance on November 13 they discussed her long train journey from Islamabad to the southern seaport city of Karachi. “He was ...

Rauf Salehi, a leader of Yakawlang’s clerics, tells Radio Free Afghanistan that after the decision to prohibit forced marriages was made a few months ago, the number of forced marriages in the ...

HERAT, -- Afghanistan’s western province of Herat was once home to a thriving Jewish community that has now all but vanished from the region. Its monuments and properties have either fallen into ...

Constitutional Standoff Dari became an official language in Afghanistan in the country's 1964 constitution. Two earlier constitutions in the 20th century had labeled it Farsi. The late Afghan ...

A new movement demanding security for Pakistan’s ethnic Pashtun minority is transforming into a nationalist struggle with long-term consequences for the country’s politics, security, society, and ...

Major Afghan cities have been largely spared from the deadly militant attacks that once struck them regularly. The Taliban agreed to stop bombing urban centers under a landmark peace deal signed with ...

A polio campaign has begun in the Pakistani city of Karachi, with the authorities hoping to vaccinate over 200,000 children. The program was delayed by several months because of the coronavirus ...

They braved great risks to flee danger in their Balochistan homeland in southwestern Pakistan, where thousands have been killed and disappeared amid a separatist rebellion that began two decades ago.