India’s surgical strikes against Pakistan would harm the Afghan peace process, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has warned.

A Taliban delegation headed by deputy leader Mullah Baradar has met with Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Wednesday to discuss the Afghan peace process. Mullah Baradar will be visiting Pakistan for two days and during the visit, “the delegation will meet with the Foreign Minister and call on the Prime Minister,” Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday in […]

India’s surgical strikes against Pakistan would harm the Afghan peace process, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has warned. Qureshi issued the warning at a news conference in the United Arab Emirates on Friday evening.

In recent years, tensions mounted between India and Pakistan, two nuclear powers in South Asia. The 2016 Uri attack, the 2019 Pulwama attack on a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian security personnel on the Jammu Srinagar National Highway by a vehicle-borne suicide bomber that led to deaths of 46, and the retaliatory Balakot airstrikes by the Indian air force can […]

The Global Nuclear Rat Race The past few decades have seen strides being made in all aspects of life – from sticks and stones to weaponry. The extreme case of this phenomenon has been nuclear weapons. The menace caused by nuclear weapons in the past is unforgettable. Images of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from 1945 come to mind, after the United […]

Pakistan on Wednesday reiterated its belief that there was no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan, vowing to continue to facilitate the Afghan peace process.

A Taliban team, led by the co-founder of the insurgent movement, arrived Wednesday in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani government leaders amid growing calls for a reduction in violence in neighboring Afghanistan. The visit came as the Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks in Afghanistan, striking in northern Baghlan and southern Uruzgan province late on Tuesday and early Wednesday. At […]

A Taliban delegation, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the political deputy head of the Taliban’s office in Doha, is expected to meet with high-ranking Pakistani officials on Wednesday, after arriving in the country. The visit comes after an official invitation was extended to the group by the Pakistan government.

At least 26 anti-government militias including several Pakistani citizens were killed during latest clashes with Afghan security forces in southern Helmand province last night.

Starting with General Zia-ul-Haq’s martial law in the late 1970s, the anomaly of military control has become a permanent feature of Pakistan’s hybrid military-civilian system. Over the years it has also become a factor in tilting the balance in favor of the generals when it comes to calling the shots in framing the security and foreign policies of the state.