Two months ago, Afghanistan sealed its eastern border with neighboring Pakistan soon after Islamabad shut down all routes ...

As tensions simmer between Pakistan and Afghanistan, Islamabad is shifting from coercive diplomacy to managed escalation to ...

Fatima Baloch [email protected] On September 12, 2001, just after the 9/11 attacks, U.S. Secretary of State Colin ...

Amid the deepest erosion of relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan in decades, the Pakistani government has cut off cross-border trade ...

Taliban officials admit that at least half of the stockpile is now “unaccounted for.” Many of those weapons ended up with ...

The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the never-ending tensions between the two countries. Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S.

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Newly declassified transcripts reveal that global leaders privately acknowledged the dangers of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal ...

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This geopolitical explainer examines rising tensions between Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran, explaining why recent border clashes, militant activity, and retaliatory strikes have pushed the region ...