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Daud Khattak

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 15, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Daud Khattak

    Former Afghan Soldiers Recruited For Pakistan's Balochistan Fight, Sources Say (opens the original)

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    It was with a mixture of surprise and fear that Khan, a former Afghan soldier now living in Pakistan, received an offer to work with Pakistani security agencies on counter-militancy operations in Balochistan, the country’s southwestern province bordering Afghanistan and Iran. “The offer came from a former police officer in the previous Afghan government,” Khan said who added that the Afghan officer is well-housed in Pakistan and enjoys the support of local officials. Khan said the man had alread

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Daud Khattak

    How A Resurgent Al-Qaeda Is Helping Militant Attacks In Pakistan (opens the original)

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    In May, an explosion at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan was followed by an intense firefight in which 21 people were killed. It was just one in a series of violent incidents in which militants operating out of Afghanistan, with support from Al-Qaeda, have launched attacks on targets in neighboring Pakistan. A quarter-century ago, the United States drove Al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan and into neighboring Pakistan. Dispersed and severely weakened, the terror network regrouped in Pakista

  3. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Daud Khattak

    Five Years After Fleeing Taliban Rule, At-Risk Afghans Live In Hiding In Pakistan (opens the original)

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    When the Taliban stormed to power in Afghanistan in 2021, hundreds of thousands of at-risk Afghans fearing for their lives fled to neighboring Pakistan. Five years on, thousands remain in the South Asian country as they wait to be resettled to third countries, often living in hiding to evade deportation to their homeland. They include journalists, activists, and those who served in the ousted US-backed Afghan government and its security and intelligence services. Many of them fear reprisal from

  4. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Daud Khattak

    Life Under Under The Taliban (opens the original)

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    A lack of rights, falling wages, deteriorating living conditions: Five years of Taliban rule have brought changes to Afghanistan, but not the ones many Afghans hoped for. Though roadside bombs and violent clashes between warring factions have largely subsided, the country faces a profound economic crisis, a severe humanitarian emergency that has left millions of people in need of aid, and near-total international isolation over the Taliban’s human rights record, particularly its systematic erasu

  5. Article · Aug 13, 2026 · Daud Khattak

    Rights Group Urges Taliban To Free 'Disappeared' Aid Workers (opens the original)

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    Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to release several international aid workers who were "forcibly disappeared" from their offices last month and are still missing without word on their location or condition. HRW said in a statement that the Taliban, which seized power five years ago, has provided no information on the whereabouts of the leadership team of the nongovernmental group Women and Children Legal Research Foundation (WCLRF), who were arrested in Kabul o

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