If you’re one of four million Ahmadis in Pakistan, posting on Facebook can mean exposing yourself to danger.

Pakistani fishing communities struggle inside the nets of bonded labor.

Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.

High in the Karakoram, where the stubborn armies of India and Pakistan face off.

On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, women express themselves through fierce short poems.

Life as a crime reporter in one of the most violent places in the world.

The possibilities and limits of investigative reporting.

Visiting a cattle market in Karachi, right before the feast of Eid.

The family accused of funding the Pakistani Taliban.

“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”

A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

On the India-Pakistan proxy war in Afghanistan.

The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.

An inquiry into the assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister.

Zaranj: the bloody border of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.

Inside the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan:

The U.S. government has lied to itself, and to its citizens, about the nature and actions of successive Pakistani governments. Pakistani behavior over the past 20 years has rendered the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism effectively meaningless.

The Haqqani family, an organized crime militia dubbed the “Sopranos of the Afghanistan war,” will almost surely outlast the U.S. occupation and thus seize tremendous power after the U.S. exits.

The death of the journalist who exposed dark secrets about Islamic extremism in Pakistan’s military.

The story of the Abbottabad raid, in detail.

When a CIA operation in Pakistan went bad, leaving three men dead, the episode offered a rare glimpse inside a shadowy world of espionage. It also jeopardized America’s most critical outpost in the war against terrorism.

The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan.

Sheikh Amer Hassan’s parties were notoriously debauched, evidence of a growing permissiveness in Karachi high society. His murder by a pair of young brothers surprised few.

Did A.Q. Khan sell nuclear secrets on the black market? The fame had unbalanced him. He was subjected to a degree of public acclaim rarely seen in the West—an extreme close to idol worship, which made him hungry for more. Money seems never to have been his obsession, but it did play a role.

The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.