An elusive separatist leader in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province has vowed to target a Chinese-funded trade corridor that aims to link the country’s northwestern Xinjiang region to the Middle East.
Notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar called for peace on September 29 as he appeared by video to sign an accord with President Ashraf Ghani.
Afghan officials point to systemic weaknesses within the government forces as the main reason for the Taliban’s rapid advance in Afghanistan’s largest province, Helmand.
In a move likely to aggravate already tense relations between the two neighbors, India is accelerating its building of new hydropower plants along three rivers that flow into Pakistan
Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban insurgents have criticized an Afghan Islamist leader for concluding a peace deal with the government in Kabul.
A global right watchdog has urged Pakistani police to stop illegally killing hundreds of criminal suspects in “encounter killings”. Human Rights Wash says last year Pakistani police killed more than 2,000 people in extra-judicial executions.
Three Pakistani Taliban leaders have reportedly been killed in joint Afghan and NATO air strikes in eastern Afghanistan, Pakistani security sources say.
A recent suicide attack on a mosque in northwestern Pakistan that killed 36 worshippers, mostly teenagers, has left grief and agony in its wake and generated anger at the government’s failure to help the victims.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a notorious warlord and wartime-era prime minister, has signed a peace deal with the Afghan government. The prospective return of the "Butcher of Kabul" has opened old wounds in the capital.
Viewers demand police investigate the brutal treatment of a young Pakistani woman in the Swat district after Mashaal viral video draws attention to her case.
As two U.S. lawmakers pursue legislation to designate Pakistan a terror state, Islamabad is facing the threat of increasing diplomatic isolation over its inability to curb homegrown militancy and the threat it poses to its neighbors.
The Afghan government has signed a draft peace accord with notorious exiled warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for his return after years of fighting the central authorities.
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