ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan “strategic depth” in its rivalry with India. What’s gone wrong? Pakistan carried out air strikes on Afghanistan’s major cities overnight, officials in Islamabad and Kabul said on Friday, escalating months of border clashes between the Islamic neighbors.

KABUL/ KARACHI: Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fire along their border on Tuesday, with each side accusing the other of initiating the clash, days after Pakistani…

Tensions have been high between the neighbors for months, with border clashes in October killing dozens of soldiers, civilians and suspected militants.

Islamabad launched airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and southeastern Afghanistan on Friday in retaliation for an attack the previous day against Pakistani military bases. Pakistan…

Pakistani defence minister says Pakistan and Afghanistan are now at 'open war'.

Bombings by Pakistan are the most significant development in tensions between the two neighbours - though the physical impact remains unclear.

Pakistani and Afghan officials have both declared full military operations as border clashes intensify.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give…

Analysts warn escalation may embolden armed groups and destabilise both Afghanistan and Pakistan. What happens next?

Pakistan has accused Afghanistan of becoming 'a colony of India' but India's relations with Kabul predate the Taliban.

KARACHI: Weeks after the Taliban’s lightning offensive in 2021 wrested control of Afghanistan from a US-led military coalition, Pakistan’s then intelligence chief flew into the…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif this week directed authorities to ensure prompt and comprehensive security measures countrywide, state media reported, as Pakistan’s armed…