Pakistani Taliban attacks police station in Punjab province

Twenty members of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan militia used automatic weapons to attack the police station

Pakistani forces, Taliban exchange fire on shared border

Pakistani troops attempted to erect a military structure on the shared border with Afghanistan, a move deemed illegal by the Afghan government

Taliban and Pakistani army clash in Nimroz region

Both the Taliban and Pakistan have increased their military presence at the border, following several clashes between the two armies

MbZ meets with Pakistani PM for bilateral talks

MbZ and the Pakistani PM expressed their desire to bolster joint cooperation in the fields of economy, trade, and development

Pakistan threatens Taliban over failure to curb border instability

Tehrik-e-Taliban presence in Afghanistan under the wing of the IEA contributed additional tensions to the unstable relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan

Taliban government fully implements Sharia law

Sharia law includes severe punishments including mutilation and execution for crimes such as theft, apostasy, adultery, and sedition

Pakistan rejects Taliban allegations of US drones using its airspace

Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described the Taliban's accusation as a baseless, speculative claim that lacks any evidence

Taliban leader in Pakistan killed in car bomb attack

The murder of the TTP leadership signifies yet another setback for their initiative to end domestic violence and protect the local community

Taliban ousts its only Shia Hazara commander: Report

Taliban clashes with Mehdi Mujahid over a power dispute, ending an era of Hazara representation in its ranks

UAE consortium signs deal with Taliban to manage Kabul airport

The deal will only apply to the logistics at the airports and not security, which has been a sticking point in past discussions with potential partners

Terror from Balochistan: a menacing tool to disrupt Sino-Pakistani economics

A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan. Pakistan is a critical BRI hub in Beijing's vast Eurasian connectivity project, and it looks like CPEC is the ultimate target of this disruption.

Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan leave 47 dead

Islamabad claims its forces are responding to militant groups using the Afghan border to launch attacks against the country

Afghan government offers Taliban power-sharing deal

President Ashraf Ghani calls for an end to violence

To ‘defeat’ terrorism, Pakistan must counter its entrenched ideology

Part of the solution to Pakistan’s decades-long struggle against terrorism is to confront the embedded mindset behind it.

Afghanistan: between pipelines and ISIS-K, the Americans are still in play

US trained and armed Afghan security forces are joining ISIS-K, which makes the US 'withdrawal' from Afghanistan look more like an American 'repositioning' to keep chaos humming

UPDATE: Suicide bombing at Pakistan mosque kills at least 92, wounds 150 others

The mosque was located in a fortified compound, including the provincial police and counter-terrorism departments

Abandoning Afghanistan is dangerous for its neighbors

Despite the Taliban's many shortcomings, only a unified, multilateral approach to negotiating with and recognizing the Islamic Emirate will safeguard the borders of neighboring states.

Earthquake strikes northeastern Afghanistan

The 5.3 magnitude earthquake is said to have killed eight people, with reports suggesting the death toll could rise

Imran Khan’s arrest will derail Pakistan’s democracy

When the nation’s most popular leader in living memory is also the state’s public enemy number one, what will become of Pakistan?

How a missile in Kabul connects to a Speaker in Taipei

Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.

Rescue work continues in Afghanistan as earthquake injury toll rises above 1,500

Iran was the first country to send relief aid, while the UN aid organization OCHA is additionally set to deploy response teams to the affected areas

Iran dispatches humanitarian aid to earthquake-struck Afghanistan

Over 1,000 people were killed by an earthquake that hit Afghanistan earlier in the day

Hundreds dead after earthquake hits Afghanistan

Ahead of the natural disaster, Afghanistan was already experiencing an acute humanitarian disaster as a result of a US-led economic blockade

Recognizing Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan not on Moscow agenda: Official

Russia, Iran and China have repeatedly called on the Taliban to form an inclusive government and to allow education for girls

Iran FM calls for inclusive Afghan govt, Pakistan FM urges US to release Afghan assets

The Iranian foreign minister also addressed attempts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in the wake of an anti-Iran resolution passed by the IAEA

US ousts Imran Khan but his revolutionary narrative endures

Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their US backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan's domestic and foreign allies will not sit by idly either.

‘Afghanistan cannot be cut off from the international community’: Chinese FM

During the third meeting of Afghanistan's neighbors, top diplomats from the region called on Taliban officials to respect the rights of women and minorities

Is Qatar the means for a US comeback in Eurasia?

Energy-rich Qatar’s designation as a major non-NATO ally may upset the Persian Gulf balance, but could be a means for the US to counter a Sino-Russian lockhold on Eurasia.

Will the Islamic world save Afghanistan?

Between the complex internal dynamics of the Taliban and the western trick of conditional aid, it is the Muslim world that must act to save Afghanistan

Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states to create aid fund for Afghanistan

Foreign Ministers of OIC member states stressed the need to support Afghanistan to stave off a regional crisis