Jul 16, 2020 · 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, …

Mar 11, 2015 · A 20th-century poetic genius wrote about his people's struggles with modernity, ignorance, freedom and discrimination. Some of his popular poems were turned into songs …

Oct 18, 2016 · A new book about Pakistan’s premier spy service, the Inter-Services Intelligence, portrays an organization working to preserve military dominance while both fighting and …

Oct 29, 2018 · The late Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir once sang, “When a name becomes immortal, its death is never easy.” His words proved prophetic. Nearly four decades after his …

Jan 20, 2016 · B.R. Singh, a former senior Indian civil servant, told RFE/RL in 2011 of a visit by Gandhi to the frontier regions, where he met with the leaders of Khan's Khudai Khidmatgar …

Jan 5, 2016 · Malali Bashir is a correspondent and senior editor with RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan. She is based in Prague and reports on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Dec 27, 2019 · KABUL -- Afghanistan's communist President Hafizullah Amin was lying unconscious in his bed. A KGB agent who had infiltrated Amin's staff as a cook had poisoned …

Jul 6, 2020 · A female Afghan politician and her driver were wounded in a gun attack in the morning of July 6, in her native province of Logar, local police said.

5 days ago · October 30, 2020 Deadlocked Afghan Peace Process At 'Point Of Collapse' Just weeks after the first direct talks between Afghan government representatives and the Taliban …

Jun 19, 2019 · Around the same time, the Taliban also destroyed the country's third-largest Buddha statue, located just outside Ghazni city. The 16-meter-long, reclining Buddha at a …