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The United States hosted a high-stakes strategic dialogue with Pakistan on Monday, with its top diplomat John Kerry vowing support for the key South Asian country’s fight against terror.   “Our nations are committed to combating...

Taliban groups may hold direct talks with the Afghan government by the end of February to find a way to bring an end to the bloody conflict that showed no signs of let up in recent...

South Asian agrarian economies have been growing at a rapid pace in the recent years. Their share in the world cereal harvests is also enviable- 60 percent of total rice and 50 percent of wheat. Fruit...

General Raheel Sharif  – who is credited with prosecuting Pakistan’s most effective fight yet against terror  – in North Waziristan and elsewhere along the Afghan border -– has announced that he would retire from the powerful army...

Last year, when I watched with horror a documentary telling tales of children caught in the crosshairs of Syrian civil war, I wondered if the excruciating accounts would jolt the world out of inaction after the...

This time it was the Bacha Khan University in Pakistan’s northwestern Pushtun belt  town of Charsadda – a center of ancient Gandhara civilization – in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which along with tribal areas has been on...

In a development holding out wide-ranging implications, the United States and Europe Saturday lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for Teheran’s implementation of its end of last year’s nuclear deal that stops the oil-rich Persian nation...

In his farewell State of the Union address to Congress, President Barack Obama delivered a high-pitched message of American optimism to meet new challenges, as he rejected the alarmist approach to national and international issues, and...

The United States, China, Pakistan and Afghanistan explored prospects for a negotiated end to the bloody Afghan conflict, as four nations discussed ways to relaunch talks between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul. Washington believes the reconciliation...

The heartrending images of skeleton-thin children starving to death in the besieged town of Madaya on Thursday sent another chilling reminder to the world of the unspeakable horrors Syrians have gone through in the last five...