Tag: Islamabad
Is Pakistan trying to set new red lines with Afghan Taliban?
Islamabad, Pakistan – When Pakistan’s foreign minister, Ishaq Dar, visited Kabul in April and met his Afghan Taliban counterpart,…
Pakistan-Afghan border crossings closed after heavy clashes
Key border crossings between Pakistan and Afghanistan were closed on Sunday after fierce clashes erupted overnight following Taliban…
Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations
Afghanistan says it has killed 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight border operations
Pakistan Islamists march towards capital after violent anti-Israel protests
Several thousand members of a hard-right Pakistan Islamist party began marching towards the capital on Saturday, after violent…
Explosions hit Kabul as Taliban make diplomatic push to India
Islamabad, Pakistan – A series of explosions and bursts of gunfire rattled Afghanistan’s capital late Thursday evening, according…
How Pakistan misread the Taliban and lost peace on the frontier
Islamabad, Pakistan – When Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived at the military hospital in Bannu in the northwestern…
Suicide blast near paramilitary headquarters in Pakistan’s Quetta kills 10
Islamabad, Pakistan – A powerful car bomb blast outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary Frontier Corps in the…
The Taliban say they have freed a US citizen from an Afghan prison
The Taliban say they have freed a US citizen from an Afghan prison
How Saudi-Pakistan defence pact reshapes region’s geopolitics
Islamabad, Pakistan – A beaming Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif – welcomed with Saudi F-15 fighter jets, a…
Why does Nepal’s crisis matter to South Asia – and the world?
Islamabad, Pakistan – On Sunday, Nepal’s then-Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli mocked youth protesters, who were planning a…
India-Pakistan missile race heats up, but China in crosshairs, too
Islamabad, Pakistan – India on August 20 announced that it had successfully test-fired Agni-V, its intermediate-range ballistic missile, from…
Pakistan woos old rival Bangladesh, as India watches on
Decades after Pakistani troops killed his friends in Bangladesh's independence war, veteran freedom fighter Syed Abu Naser Bukhtear…