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Last week, I observed here that journalists have mostly continued to post on Twitter as if everything is normal there. That’s less true today than it was then — good on NPR and PBS for showing some spine and suspending their use of the…

A military helicopter crashed last week in Pakistan carrying six personnel including two officers in Harnai district. Harnai lies to the east of Quetta which is the provincial capital of Balochistan, also a restive province. The Pakistan…

Pakistan has been put on high alert following attacks by armed assailants on two security camps in the restive south-western Balochistan province that resulted in the deaths of seven soldiers and 13 insurgents. The attacks, claimed later by…

QUETTA: Insurgents in the Pakistani province of Balochistan attacked two military bases overnight, killing four soldiers while losing 15 of their own men, a top official said on Thursday, in the latest violence in the resource-rich region…

The Taliban victory in Afghanistan has the potential of becoming the biggest ideological war-cry for Islamist terror organisations in the time to come. (Image: Reuters)Afghanistan Updates: In a recent move, the Taliban said they will call…

Pakistan and Afghanistan share unique relationship with each other. The two countries have been neighbors separated by a 2,570km border. There are religious, cultural and ethnic relations. Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai even described…

In an exclusive interview to CNN-News18, Afghanistan’s ‘acting’ President Amrullah Saleh highlighted the security situation in the Panjshir valley, where the anti-Taliban forces are amassing and the Taliban find themselves struggling to…

KABUL, Afghanistan — The last major city in northern Afghanistan fell to the Taliban on Saturday night, marking the complete loss of the country’s north to the Taliban as the insurgents appear on the verge of a full military takeover.The…

<!-- -->A provincial lawmaker said the insurgents had taken Farah city (Representational)Herat, Afghanistan: The Taliban seized another Afghan provincial capital Tuesday -- the seventh in less than a week -- as tens of thousands of…