United States Agency for Global Media

RFE/RL relaunches Gandhara website as one-stop shop for Afghanistan, Pakistan news

October 22, 2020

With the Afghan government and Taliban militants now negotiating possible peace at the intra-Afghan talks underway in Doha, RFE/RL and its Radio Free Afghanistan service have taken an intimate, multipart look at what may be at stake for women and for the victims of the bloody, protracted war. In Pakistan, RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal has uncovered striking differences in how private and state schools are implementing government anti-coronavirus regulations in the capital, Islamabad, and in rural areas near the border with Afghanistan, and revealed land ownership disputes that cloud the future of the tribal region that has suffered more than a decade of military operations against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militant networks. Read More