BEIJING: China said on Monday its special envoy had spent a week mediating between Afghanistan and Pakistan and had urged an immediate ceasefire after deadly cross-border clashes flared. South Asian neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan have had a strained relationship for months, after dozens of people were killed in fighting in October last year. Islamabad accuses Afghanistan of harboring militants from the Pakistani Taliban, who have claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in Pakistan, as well as from the local offshoot of the Daesh group.

SHANGHAI: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi in a phone call that disputes between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be resolved…

China said Monday its special envoy spent the past week mediating between Afghanistan and Pakistan and had urged an immediate cease-fire in the deadly...

BEIJING: China said on Monday its special envoy had spent a week mediating between Afghanistan and Pakistan and had urged an immediate ceasefire after deadly cross-border clashes…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Monday denied reports about Islamabad turning down China’s call for a dialogue with Kabul, in a bid to end weeks of fighting between…