Fresh clashes erupted between Pakistan and Afghanistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, with Pakistan accusing Afghan troops of unprovoked firing. Pakistani for

By the end of the meeting, Field Marshal Munir reportedly left his commanders with a grim warning: the army must “regain control and restore strategic depth before it’s too late.”

Pakistan uprooted the Taliban with U.S. help in the 2010s. But the insurgency has resurfaced with assistance from the Afghan Taliban.

In a major setback following coordinated attacks by Afghan Taliban fighters on military posts along the Durand Line, Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, held an emergency meeting at GHQ Rawalpindi and demanded an intelligence report.

A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international troops withdrew and the government their supported collapsed.

After decades of nurturing militants for “strategic depth,” Pakistan now faces blowback from its own creation. The Taliban, once Islamabad’s ally, has turned its guns westward, exposing Pakistan’s collapsing strategy,

Pakistan's state-run media say clashes have erupted between Pakistani and Afghan forces in a remote northwestern border region. Pakistan TV accused Afghan troops of opening “unprovoked fire”

As Taliban forces hit back at Islamabad over alleged air raids inside Afghan territory, waves of refugees returning from Pakistan are struggling to rebuild their lives in Taliban-run Afghanistan.