Over the past 15 years, Pakistan and Afghanistan have frequently accused one another of sheltering hostile Taliban factions responsible for deadly insurgencies and frequent terrorist attacks in the two neighboring countries.
The U.S. has been relying on Pakistan as an ally in the war on terror in the region and has provided the country with billions of dollars in aid over the last 15 years.
A northwestern Pakistani region dubbed by former U.S. President Barack Obama as “the most dangerous place in the world” is finally getting some positive press.
A planned census in Pakistan this month has revived old controversies in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan.
A court in Kyrgyzstan has ordered opposition Ata-Meken (Fatherland) party leader Omurbek Tekebaev to be kept in custody for two months while a fraud and corruption investigation continues against him.
Pakistan's Senate has banned its members from attending U.S. events and announced that it will not welcome U.S. diplomats or members of Congress in Islamabad.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has reiterated support for long-awaited reforms that might see the northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) merge into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
In the nearly four decades of various cycles of the Afghan war, few alliances are as baffling as Iran’s not-so-secret cooperation with the Afghan Taliban.
The families of four social media bloggers in Pakistan had a respite when their loved ones returned home after vanishing for nearly three weeks last month.
One of Afghanistan’s most powerful regional leaders is now aiming to assume political center stage by negotiating a power-sharing deal with the president.
Islamabad is set to initiate new legislation that would merge the country’s restive northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) into the adjacent province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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