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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan urged Afghanistan’s Taliban government Monday to stop militants from using Afghan territory to launch attacks inside Pakistan, renewing a warning that the same armed groups could eventually threaten the Taliban’s own rule.Tensions between the neighbors have escalated amid repeated border clashes and Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan, deepening ...

A video, showing External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar speaking at an event is being shared on social media.What's the claim?: The video is being shared with the following text."India Foreign Minister Jaishankar Said Pakistan Relationship with China USA Bangladesh Growing Faster but India is not alone.We have Afghan ...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 30 others, officials said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.The attack occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, a district in ...

A video, which purportedly shows a person identified as one Indian Army Lieutenant General named Vinod Sharma, is being shared on social media.What does he say?: In the video, this Lt Gen Sharma can be heard saying that initially, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had thought of waging a war ...

The death toll from a suicide attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan rose to 14 police officers, authorities said early on Sunday. A self-proclaimed breakaway group of the Pakistani Taliban has claimed the attack.A suicide bomber and several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the post in ...

Pakistan announced on Wednesday a pause in strikes against Afghanistan, saying the decision was made ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr at the request of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.In a statement, Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar said the pause in strikes on “terrorists and their support ...

Pakistan’s president on Saturday warned neighbouring Afghanistan’s Taliban government that it had “crossed a red line” by launching drone attacks on civilian areas in Pakistan and said the administration in Kabul had brought “grave consequences upon itself”.The statement by Asif Ali Zardari was the latest in what has become ...

In the unforgiving swathes of Afghanistan thrives the time-honoured code of conduct called the “Pashtunwali”. One of the Pashtunwali’s most sacred tenets is “Badal” – implying the insistence on restoring honour against the enemy, which is more than simply revenge. The obligation to undertake “Badal” may last for generations, ...

The latest exchange of air strikes and border clashes between Pakistan and Afghanistan has once again pushed the region to the brink, reviving a dread among those who have lived through this cycle before, the continuation of a war that never truly ended.The so-called war on terror has been ...

Pakistani authorities said nearly 300 Afghan Taliban fighters were killed during Operation Ghazab lil-Haq after cross-border attacks. Officials urged Kabul to curb militant groups, as regional powers including Iran pushed for dialogue and de-escalation Published Date - 28 February 2026, 10:34 AM Afghan security force ...