The U.N. said on Friday that over 100,000 people have been displaced by fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan, which has been running at a tempo close to open warfare for the past week with no end in sight.
Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they repelled an attack from Afghanistan, killing 67 Afghan fighters in heavy fighting along the border, with only one Pakistani casualty.
Pakistan imposed a three-day curfew on Monday morning following violent protests against the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, including an attack on U.S. consulates and the embassy in Islamabad.
At least nine people were killed during pro-Iran protests outside the United States consulate in the Pakistan megacity of Karachi on Sunday, with dozens more injured as they tried to storm the diplomatic outpost.
Pakistani Defense Minister Kahwaja Asif declared “open war” on Afghanistan on Friday, promising “there will be chaos and a reckoning” after the Taliban junta launched drone strikes against targets in Pakistan.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi began a two-day visit to Israel on Wednesday in what both governments billed as an opportunity to build closer relations by making common cause against terrorism – and which some observers viewed as a ticking clock on potential American action against Iran, since a strike would not be likely until Modi leaves Israel.
A spokesman for imprisoned former Pakistani PM Imran Khan says he has been denied hospital care and treatment, leading to severe loss of vision.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a two-thirds majority of parliamentary seats in Thursday’s election.
Bangladesh on Thursday held its first general election since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted by violent riots in August 2024.
Pakistani media reported a suicide bombing attack on a Shiite mosque in Islamabad on Thursday afternoon, with at least 31 fatalities and 169 injuries.
The Dhaka Special Court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to ten years in prison on two corruption indictments.
The Pakistani government on Thursday ordered enhanced screening for travelers arriving from “Nipah-affected or high-risk regions.”
Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors released the 2026 edition of their World Watch List on Wednesday, highlighting the most dangerous countries on Earth to practice Christianity.
Pakistani Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday announced the creation of a new “special police unit” in Islamabad that will be dedicated to protecting Chinese nationals from terrorist attacks.
Hindus in the Indian capital of New Delhi protested on Tuesday after a Hindu man was lynched and burned alive by a mob in Bangladesh.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were each sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption on Saturday. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), denounced the ruling as a “black chapter in history” and declared there is “no rule of law in Pakistan.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday in Turkmenistan to discuss the war in Ukraine. Their meeting was unexpectedly interrupted by Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who demanded an audience with Putin to secure his support against India and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
India’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday supported the “sovereignty” of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan against cross-border attacks from Pakistani forces.
The unexpected deterioration in relations between Pakistan and the Taliban junta in Afghanistan has thrown a wrench into the works for China, which had ambitions to spread its influence through Central Asia – and plunder Afghanistan’s natural resources – by folding Afghanistan into the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
The Taliban junta in Afghanistan offered condolences on Friday to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) for the murder of three Chinese nationals in Tajikistan by militants who may have struck across the border from Afghan soil.
Elon Musk’s X recently rolled out a new feature that shows the location that accounts operate from. Many anonymous accounts claiming to be MAGA yet pushing division in the conservative movement have been exposed as operating from India, Pakistan, and other nations. Popular influencers with known identities are pointing out foreign fakers, most of which who have claimed to be Americans for years.
Taliban Trade Minister Alhaj Nooruddin Azizi traveled to New Delhi on Wednesday in search of trade deals and investments, taking the relationship between the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and India another step forward.
The escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after terrorist attacks in both countries this week are part of a regional realignment – a square dance of power in which India is courting Pakistan’s former friends in Afghanistan, while Bangladesh sidles up to Islamabad.
Professionals and neighbours didn’t speak before a child was murdered by her Pakistani family because they feared the “racist” label.
“Laser focus” needed to find the truth of “one of the most shameful stories in the history of our islands”, the “Pakistani grooming gangs”.
The International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is to patrol Gaza as part of President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan could include troops from Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Pakistan, one report says.
According to a Swiss manufacturer of air quality equipment called IQAir, the air quality in India’s capital of New Delhi degraded to “hazardous” levels on Tuesday, due in part to the large quantity of fireworks detonated during the holiday festival of Diwali.
The Russian government on Thursday downplayed President Donald Trump’s statement that he has persuaded India to dramatically reduce its massive purchases of Russian oil, teasing a major offering of Russian military hardware as an incentive for India to keep funding President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that over a dozen civilians were killed during overnight clashes along the border with Pakistan.
Jubilant crowds in Gaza and Israel chanted Donald Trump’s name and called for him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
A grooming gang ringleader and six of his accomplices were handed jail sentences in a case that highlighted serious government failings, including where the social care system branded a 10-year-old girl a prostitute and did nothing to help her.
A bill appeared on the docket of Verkhovna Rada, the national parliamentary body of Ukraine, on Monday appearing to propose nominating President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif delivered a long and frequently belligerent speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Friday, railing against India for what he described as unprovoked aggression in May, and claiming Pakistan humiliated the Indian military in response.
Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif on Thursday answered a lingering question about the new defense pact between his country and Saudi Arabia by confirming that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is covered by the agreement.
Saudi Arabia on Wednesday signed a defense pact with its longtime ally Pakistan, a move clearly inspired by Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar last week.
Internet monitors said over the weekend that widespread service disruptions in Asia and the Middle East appear to have been caused by damage to undersea cables in the Red Sea, off the coast of Saudi Arabia. It was not immediately clear if the cable damage was caused by deliberate sabotage.
A suicide bomber attacked outside a stadium in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s province of Balochistan, on Tuesday night. The nearby stadium had been rented out by a nationalist group called the Balochistan National Party-Mengal (BNP-M) to hold a memorial rally for its founder, who was killed in 2021.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China on Monday. Xi and Putin used the event to tout their vision of a new post-American, post-European world order, and seemed intent on fitting India into that vision.
One of the worst earthquakes in Afghanistan’s history struck the border region with Pakistan on Sunday, killing over 800 people and injuring at least 2,800 more.
Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched a crackdown on cybercriminals on August 15. The commission said on Thursday that 102 accused criminals have been deported so far, including 50 Chinese nationals.
