Pakistan’s powerful generals have for decades cited political corruption as a leading problem in the country that justified the toppling of governments through repeated coups and the military's ...

Nearly half a century ago, a bloodless palace coup in Afghanistan ended more than two centuries of Durrani monarchy in Afghanistan. But the power grab of the July 17, 1973, coup that saw Sardar ...

A fact-finding team for the Afghan parliament has alleged that a construction project at the country’s embassy in Washington was rife with corruption. The parliamentary probe was launched after an ...

KABUL/HERAT -- Basira Akhtar, a student at Kabul University, Afghanistan’s largest and oldest public university, says she is a victim of the rising extremism at her institution. The 22-year-old fourth ...

Raees Khudaidad's name in his home province of Khost in southeastern Afghanistan elicits polarized reactions. Most of his compatriots see him as a notorious murderer, robber and kidnapper. But the ...

I recently attended a celebration at a banquet hall in Toronto. A beautiful young woman wearing a colorful ethnic dress was standing on the brightly-lit stage. Next to her was a table, on which sat a ...

The media situation in Central Asia, generally, has been bad for many years now. But, according to recent reports by the Paris-based organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and New York-based ...

KABUL -- Mohammad Wali was just 12 years old when his widowed mother began arranging his marriage to a 24-year-old woman from their village in Ghazni Province. "I don't want to be married," the young ...

Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, a former foreign minister under the Taliban, says the Taliban and the Afghan government need to rethink their approaches to the peace talks. He said without a committed ...

I immediately tried to reach my friend Naqib Ahmad Khpulwak after learning about a militant attack on the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) in Kabul late on August 24. Khpulwak was an ...

Exiled Baluch separatist leader Brahumdagh Bugti once feared being killed by his followers if he ever struck a deal with Pakistan because of its harsh crackdown against those fighting for independence ...