ISLAMABAD (AP) — It was initially seen as an unexpected mediator, but this week Pakistan has established itself as a key player in bringing Iran and the United States to the negotiating table. Now, it ...

Reporter Pakistan has declared “open war” with the Taliban-led Afghanistan after the two governments escalated deadly attacks on each other. Pakistan bombed Afghanistan’s two biggest cities, Kabul and ...

New Delhi: Pakistan has lost every friend it once had, said senior Pakistani politician and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman. The comment is an unusual admission by Pakistan’s own ...

Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting again, trading deadly shelling and mortar fire across their rugged border, with Islamabad’s defense minister saying his country’s patience had “run out” and ...

Pakistani soldiers patrol near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing in Chaman following overnight cross-border fighting between the two countries on Feb. 27, 2026. Credit - Abdul Basit—AFP/Getty ...

Pakistan should accept that its decades of meddling in Afghanistan have not redounded to its benefit. While global attention has focused on the escalating US and Israeli strikes against Iran since ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — As fears of a wider regional conflict escalate following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that began in late February, Pakistan has emerged as an unexpected mediator, offering to help ...