Pakistan’s role as an incubator and launchpad for global jihad has come at a steep cost—but one that its military appears happy to pay. Thursday, August 14, is Pakistan’s Independence Day, marking 78 ...

The recent downward spiral in Afghanistan-Pakistan relations would have been hard to imagine when Pakistani military and civilian leaders welcomed the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul in August 2021 ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to ...

Afghan officials are lashing out against their former allies in the Pakistani military as hostilities between the two countries intensify. By Mujib Mashal Mujib Mashal, who reported from the Deoband ...

In Taliban gamble, Delhi seizes its moment as Islamabad’s Kabul strategy collapses. As Deng Xiaoping said, it doesn’t matter ...

Peace talks in Istanbul between Pakistan and Afghanistan's hard-line Islamist Taliban rulers have ended with no deal, but a cease-fire between the neighboring countries will continue. The Taliban's ...

Pakistan reportedly saw its deadliest year in over a decade in 2025, as conflict-related deaths climbed 74 per cent compared ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers announced that a ceasefire with neighboring Pakistan would go into effect Wednesday, after a second eruption of cross-border violence in less than a week that has left ...

Pakistan's defense minister on Wednesday threatened to "obliterate" the Taliban, which controls neighboring Afghanistan, after negotiations toward lasting peace between the two sides failed. Peace ...

The Taliban government on Oct. 10 accused Pakistan of "violating Kabul's sovereign territory," a day after two explosions were heard in the capital. The Taliban have previously accused Islamabad of ...