Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the United States and Iran inch toward a peace deal, Pakistan has emerged as an unlikely ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities say Pakistani mortars and missiles struck a university and residential neighbourhoods in the eastern province of Kunar on Monday, killing at ...

A knot of defiant nations − three of them talked off a geopolitical cliff's edge at the eleventh hour. As Israel, Iran and the United States stood on the precipice of escalating a volatile war, China ...

Foreign ministers Ishaq Dar and Wang Yi met in Beijing as Pakistan pushes for peacemaker role Middle East crisis – live updates Pakistan and China have released a joint five-part proposal for peace in ...

Pakistan, which has cultivated ties with both Washington and Tehran, sees a diplomatic opening to intervene in the war in Iran, its neighbor. By Elian Peltier Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan ...

Islamabad has so far presented itself as a "neutral" party in the conflict, condemning the US-Israeli strikes on Iran as well as castigating Tehran for its attacks on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf ...

At a time when Pakistan is grappling with a volatile situation along its Afghan border, instability on the Iran-Pakistan border will add to its problems. Following the U.S.-Israel joint attacks on ...

Reporter Pakistan has declared “open war” with the Taliban-led Afghanistan after the two governments escalated deadly attacks on each other. Pakistan bombed Afghanistan’s two biggest cities, Kabul and ...

Pakistan has launched air strikes on Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities, as clashes escalate along the two countries’ shared border. On Friday, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif ...

The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening relations between the neighboring countries. By Elian Peltier Safiullah Padshah and ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with Islamabad’s defense minister saying his country’s patience had “run out” and ...

Pakistan is currently grappling with severe urban flooding triggered by erratic and intensified rainfall events — a clear manifestation of climate change. In 2024 and 2025, the country’s major cities ...