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Afghanistan should act against elements plotting terror in Pakistan: PM
LONDON: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday said initial investigation into the Bacha Khan University attack revealed that the attackers came from Afghanistan.
Speaking...
China Considers Larger Role in Afghanistan Peace Process
BEIJING — As a bloody offensive by the Taliban spreads in Afghanistan and with American combat operations there officially ended, anxious Chinese leaders find...
Obama: Pakistan Must Do More Against Terror Groups
U.S. President Barack Obama says Pakistan “can and must” do more against terror groups operating from within its borders.
In an interview published Sunday...
Taliban Demands Prisoner Release to Rejoin Afghan Peace Talks
KABUL — Afghanistan's Taliban demanded the release of political prisoners as one of the conditions that they said on Sunday would need to be...
Taliban Skeptical of Four-way Afghan Peace Process
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Afghanistan’s Taliban has restated certain preconditions prior to ceasing hostilities, and has stopped short of formally rejecting a U.S.-backed four-nation process aimed at...
Pakistani, Indian foreign secretaries may meet next month
ISLAMABAD: Foreign secretaries of Pakistan and India are expected to meet next month.
A senior official disclosed on Saturday that there was an understanding...
India, Arab world call for new strategy to combat terror
India and the Arab League on Sunday vowed to combat terrorism and called for developing a strategy to “eliminate” its sources and extremism including...
Who wants peace in Pakistan?
IN his final State of the Union address, US President Obama predicted a decade of instability in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Af-Pak was always a...
Pakistan’s tryst with counter-terrorism
The terrorist incidents in January 2016, especially the attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, have shocked the people of Pakistan, who thought that...
Prime Minister of Pakistan Visits the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) and lauds...
Prime Minister of Pakistan Visits the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) and lauds efforts of Pakistani Scientists.
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif visited...