n a video recently released online, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISIS-K) has accused the Afghan Taliban rulers of working “tirelessly to protect infidels” and of being always willing to offer anything to protect the peace of the unbeliever world in keeping with the 2020 Doha agreement. The 12-minute video, titled “Yes! So Was The Agreement,” was produced and released […]

Is Pakistan becoming a fly once again in the ointment for India’s expanding strategic partnership with the United States (US)? The recent kerfuffle over the renewed US engagement with Pakistan, however, appears to be a storm in a teacup rather than a major change in the US approach to the South Asian siblings and rivals–India and Pakistan. The suspicions in […]

Pakistan has been taken off an international grey list that warrants increased surveillance for terrorism financing, the head of the international money laundering watchdog which makes the list said on Friday. The decision, which provides a boost to the reputation of the crisis-ridden South Asian nation, was taken at the end of a two-day meeting in Paris, Financial Action Task […]

The perils of Taliban-led regime in Kabul have become unmistakably clear for Pakistan as the country has witnessed an unbelievable 51 per cent increase in the number of terrorist attacks in a single year since the militant group seized power in Afghanistan in August last year. According to details, as many as 433 people were killed and 719 wounded in […]

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), a global money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog, starts a two-day meeting in Paris on Thursday and is expected to take up removal of Pakistan from a list of countries under “increased monitoring”. In a meeting in June, the FATF said it was keeping Pakistan on the list – also known as the “grey […]

Pakistani forces opened fire at an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) check post in Kandahar province on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, local officials said. Officials said that there had been a short clash between IEA forces and Pakistani forces in Spinboldak district of Kandahar. Officials said Pakistani forces opened fire on the IEA at a check post for no […]

The 79-year-old US President Joe Biden, while talking about US foreign policy during a private Democratic Party fundraiser in California, made a comment about Pakistan, saying Pakistan may be “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” as it has “nuclear weapons without any cohesion.” The remarks came at a most critical moment in the patchy relations between the […]

The Facts Search for Meanings People and nations once colonized by the European Empires remain colonized in thoughts, behavior and practices for ever. Pakistan is no exception in contemporary global affairs. Its systems of political governance, public institutions, legal systems and delivery of services if any to public are a replica of the British colonial systems. The concept of national […]

Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai told Pakistan’s Charge d’Affaires to Afghanistan Asad Abbas on Thursday that Pakistani officials sometimes make statements about the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) that causes “regret”. At a meeting in Kabul, Stanikzai told Abbas that “both sides should pay serious attention to it,” a statement issued by the ministry said, adding that Abbas […]

Balochistan is the largest province in the federation of Pakistan, covering 44% of the country’s area, but is home to only 5% of the country’s population. Its strengths lie in its wealth of natural resources, the vast rangeland, the coastal belt with 750 km , rich mineral and hydrocarbon deposits, deep seaport at Gawader, gateway to Central Asia and high […]