ad hoc thaw” rather than a substantial shift in Pakistan-Afghanistan relations, says Rabia Akhtar, director at the Centre for Security, Strategy and Policy Research at the University of Lahore. During ...

India has restored full diplomatic relations, and has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in aid for Afghanistan’s reconstruction and development. But Pakistan views India’s growing ...

However, this development should not be viewed in isolation. New Delhi’s recent warming of relations with the Taliban may be ...

this is bad news for Pakistan all around." Several factors, in addition to deteriorating Pakistani relations, may have led India to strengthen its relationship with Afghanistan. The weakening of ...

Should the tensions between Iran and Israel intensify, Pakistan – and its lengthy border with Iran – will become a valuable ...

In a meeting last month in Beijing, Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to reinstate diplomatic ties after years of deteriorating ...

The conflict, from May 7 to May 10, followed Indian strikes on what it called “terrorist infrastructure” in Pakistan, in retaliation for the Pahalgam attack in Indian-administered Kashmir last month ...

The Taliban were shunned globally after it captured Kabul and cut restricted rights of Afghan girls and women. Less than four ...

Coll says Pakistan uses terrorist elements in Afghanistan to keep ... government is ready to normalize relations and to end its support for these, what India would regard as these terrorist ...

In the hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan in early 2002, U.S. relations with Pakistan and its leader, President General Pervez Musharraf, improved, which further aggravated ...