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As Taliban crush dissent, new leaders face cascading challenges

September 09, 2021 10:14 am

Tensions flared with neighboring Pakistan. Afghanistan’s long-standing humanitarian crisis deepened. And the militants’ brutal crackdown on dissent threatened to further erode public trust.

Pakistan builds border fence, limiting militants and families alike

March 16, 2020 10:52 am

Both Afghan and Pakistani officials said clashes along the border had increased as the fencing progressed, without giving numbers. One Torkham official pointed out the spot where he said a Pakistani army major was killed by Afghan shelling in June 2016.

Three soldiers killed in IS attack in Pakistan

Pakistan: Several Pashtun activists killed in Taliban attack

June 04, 2018 5:30 pm

Taliban militants attacked a gathering of ethnic rights activists which killed several people and injured 25 in Wana, one of the tribal lands on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

Pakistan, Afghanistan agree to joint action plan to improve border security

September 15, 2017 1:32 am

Senior security officials of Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed for a joint action plan to improve border security, the two countries met at the Ministry of Defence in Kabul.

The Great Game Folio: China in Lanka

December 03, 2014 10:32 am

A fortnightly column on the high politics of the Af-Pak region, the fulcrum of global power play in India’s neighbourhood.

Seize the day

June 18, 2014 10:12 pm

How Modi can address the drift and alienation in Kashmir

Top IM men have joined al-Qaeda, fighting in Af-Pak: NIA chargesheet

February 26, 2014 8:01 am

The chargesheet says that at a meeting in Dubai five years ago, the IM leadership decided to cut ties with Pakistan’s ISI.

US pledges measures to provide dual use technology access to India

June 06, 2012 4:55 pm

India has been contending that US norms are leading to denial of export of such sophisticated items.

Al-Qaeda chief Zawahiri is in Pak tribal area: US

April 30, 2012 11:13 am

A top US counter-terrorism official says that Washington has vowed to hunt him down.

Fresh clash of NATO,Pak forces defused

December 01, 2011 1:07 am

A cross-border incident involving NATO and Pakistani forces was quickly defused with no loss of life,according to Brig. Gen. Carsten Jacobson,spokesman for US-led international coalition