Fasihuddin Fitrah, Afghan army chief of staff, called the recent remarks of his Pakistani counterpart, Asim Munir, over security as “insulting”, saying it suggests desperation of Pakistani government officials. Munir recently said that the life of a single Pakistani is more important than the entire Afghanistan. Enayatullah Khwarazmi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense, said on X on Saturday […]

Acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs Noorullah Noori while visiting the Torkham crossing said that Afghanistan does not have an “official border” with Pakistan. The ministry released a video where Noori said that Kabul and Islamabad have a “hypothetical line” and the border between these two countries is still not clear. “We have a hypothetical line with Pakistan, we […]

Pakistan faces multifaceted challenges, spanning an economic downturn, high unemployment and political turbulence. The major ingredients in Pakistan’s economic and social malaise are the Pakistan Democratic Movement coalition government’s election year policies, such as exchange rate caps and import controls, and delays in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Extended Fund Facility program. Growth dipped sharply to -0.2 per cent in […]

The Pakistani Taliban have pledged not to attack election rallies, saying their targets are limited to the military and security forces, as political parties and independent candidates ramp up their campaigns ahead of the Feb. 8 vote ISLAMABAD — The Pakistani Taliban pledged Thursday not to attack election rallies, saying their targets are limited to the military and security forces, […]

Pakistan’s army chief said this week that the life of one Pakistani is more important than all of Afghanistan. Addressing students from universities across the country on Islamabad’s foreign policy priorities with its eastern and western neighbors, General Syed Asim Munir said: “When it comes to the safety and security of every single Pakistani, the whole of Afghanistan can be […]

Iran and Pakistan have agreed to resume full diplomatic relations after the settlement of a squabble over the recent reciprocal attacks on the border areas. The foreign ministries of Iran and Pakistan issued a joint statement on Monday, signaling thaw in the recently strained relations between the two Muslim neighbors. According to the statement, the two countries have agreed, upon […]

Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are preparing for a meeting on Afghanistan, which could take place by the end of this month, Russia’s presidential envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, told TASS. “The meeting is being prepared. It will take place,” he said. Kabulov remarked, “there is hope” that the event might take place before the end of January. No details […]

These neighboring countries’ fates couldn’t be more different: Pakistan is descending into instability, abject poverty, and isolation while India is rising as a beacon of stability in the hemisphere, continues lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, and is the center of global attention. The most geostrategically consequential outcome of the last G20 Summit was the “Memorandum of […]

While the TTP has been conducting terror attacks for a long time in Pakistan, the year 2021 was significant. In mid-August that year, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) came to power after a two-decade jihad against the United States and NATO forces in Afghanistan. After August 2021, TTP attacks in Pakistan rose sharply. In June […]

Pakistan, as one of the large countries that emerged after the collapse of British India, inherited complex relations in both cross-border and transnational politics. The geopolitical situation associated with the intervention of the Anglo-Saxon line in the region only complicated these relations. Meanwhile, Pakistan, as a region located at the junction of South and Central Asia, is very relevant for […]