The imminent peace deal between the United States and Taliban this week is expected to be followed by negotiations between the hard-line Islamist movement and the Western-backed Afghan government.
The recent escape of a former Taliban spokesman while in detention by the Pakistani intelligence services has raised new questions about Islamabad’s covert ties with the militants.
The arrest of a young leader was intended to suppress a civil rights movement critical of the Pakistani Army’s conduct in the country’s northwestern Pashtun homeland.
A U.S. Air Force plane that crashed in Afghanistan this week had been designed to improve combat communications and "battlefield management" after a 2005 U.S. military disaster.
Afghanistan’s four-decade-long conflict has been defined by the intervention of great powers and the meddling of neighbors who have ostensibly pursued their interests by arming or fighting various Afghan factions or facilitating their infighting.
A string of judgments by Pakistani courts this year now poses a serious threat to the domination by the top army generals over the country’s fate for nearly six decades.
Pakistan has emerged as the new front for the global rivalry between the United States and China as the two powers jostle to shape the 21st century.
For decades, Pakistan’s powerful military has shaped politics by imposing dictatorships and persecuting politicians. When not ruling directly, it has been frequently accused of manipulating political parties, elections, and civilian governments.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan’s civilian government is facing an unprecedented protest aimed at toppling his administration.
Days after the two sides indicated reaching an agreement “in principle,” the cancellation of talks between Afghanistan’s Taliban movement and the United States encapsulates the complexity of peace-making in Afghanistan.
While the current peace process in Afghanistan could bring the longest conflict in U.S. history to a close, it does not necessarily signal an end to the country's four-decade war.
Pakistanis are debating whether the country’s current army chief should be given a new term in office beyond November, when he is set to retire.
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