Pakistan armed forces reported security personnel and militants killed in terror incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. PM Shehbaz Sharif condemned attacks. ISPR provided details on operations and recoveries. NEW DELHI: The media wing of the Pakistan armed forces on Sunday said that six security personnel, including a senior police officer and 12 militants were killed in separate terror incidents […]

It started well before the fall of Kabul in mid-2021. According to an expert with a global counter-narcotics agency, the Taliban had by then long been including what he called “starter packs” with shipments of heroin. The packs were a way to introduce clients to a drug that would soon define the Taliban’s trade: methamphetamine. The fundamentalist group had decided […]