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The United States condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attacks in Orakzai and Karachi, Pakistan, which killed over 30 people and injured dozens more, the State Department said Friday. “We send our deepest condolences to...

With the news that Riyadh is likely to admit that the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi died accidentally during interrogation gone wrong, the United States is facing a huge foreign policy test. President Donald Trump’s predecessors,...

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi Friday said he is the United States to reconnect with Washington, arguing that the U.S. should not lose its old ally even as it fortifies its relations with South Asian rival...

The United Nations has acknowledged the effectiveness of Pakistan’s “extensive” counterterrorism operations, noting that it resulted in disrupting terrorist activities. But worryingly for the region, the report says the ISL has established extensive presence across Afghanistan, with...

Twenty two years after forming Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has won victory for his party in Wednesday’s general elections in the South Asian country of huge importance to world powers. With 120 seats in the National Assembly,...

In one of the deadliest attacks, 130 Pakistanis los their lives when a suicide bomber hit an election rally in Mastung district of Balochistan, the southwestern province struggling against militancy. The Pakistani government has announced one-day...

Afghanistan may currently be the elephant in the world newsrooms when it comes to ongoing discussions on the U.S.-Pakistan relations. But running alongside the immediate American interest in stabilizing Afghanistan on Pakistan’s western border is the...

The Soviet invasion in 1979 precipitated a large influx of Afghans into Pakistan, mainly from the Kabul elite, the affluent bought up residential homes and even small businesses, mainly in transportation. As the war reached the...

A view of Kabul, the center of Afghanistan’s social and political life. Photo UNAMA/Fardin Waezi. In one of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan this year, 57 people were reported killed and 119 injured when a suicide...

In a visit  marked by much significance for Pakistan’s fight against militancy, the world’s youngest Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai went back to Swat, her hometown in northwestern Pakistan valley, where she was attacked by the Taliban. Nearly six...