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.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday accepted bail pleas from former prime minister Imran Khan on eight of the many charges against him.
China has been salivating over exploiting Afghanistan’s mineral wealth ever since the brutal Taliban regime seized power in 2021, and on Wednesday Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made an effort to seal the deal by offering the Taliban membership in China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
German prosecutors announced terrorism charges Wednesday against a man who they say may have planned to attack the Israeli Embassy.
At least seven nations across the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have called for President Donald Trump to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, with the White House celebrating the endorsements as proof that he is the “President of PEACE.”
President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively last week that when he finishes the objective of making America great again he will leave behind “a much more peaceful nation” and a more “peaceful world.”
The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China has been airing a five-party “documentary” on state television called Forging Ahead, coinciding with the 98th anniversary of the PLA’s founding on August 1.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Monday that his troops fighting in Kharkiv had faced not just Russian invading forces but mercenaries from a variety of Asian and African countries imported into the war theater.
A Pakistani court on Thursday sentenced 108 members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party to prison for participating in riots after Khan was arrested in 2023.
India’s political opposition is furious with Prime Minister Narendra Modi for failing to secure a trade deal with the United States.
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Tuesday met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, and dictator Xi Jinping, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hopeful that his decade-long quest to obtain the F-35 joint strike fighter might finally succeed after an upbeat meeting with President Donald Trump at the NATO summit last week – but Trump does not seem to be in any hurry to give Erdogan his long-sought prize.
The Indian Foreign Ministry said that a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in China was unable to produce a joint statement because the members disagreed on the definition of “terrorism.”
An Iranian border governor revealed this week, Afghan news outlets relayed, that Iran has dramatically increased the rate of mass deportations of Afghans, resulting in over 8,000 repatriations a day.
Iranian officials vowed to get revenge for this weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against their illegal nuclear program by launching terrorist attacks, and pledged to resume enriching uranium as quickly as possible.
Pakistan nominated President Donald Trump for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for his “decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” in brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan on Saturday vowed to “stand behind Iran” against Israeli airstrikes, but indefinitely closed all of its border crossings with Iran on Monday.
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published a report on Monday that warned China has the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world and its inventory of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) could reach parity with the United States and Russia by 2030 – although Beijing would still lag behind in deliverable nuclear warheads.
A high-level Pakistani delegation to the United States, led by the former foreign minister and son of President Asif Ali Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, praised President Donald Trump for brokering a ceasefire with India as the two nuclear-armed countries lobby U.S. lawmakers for support.
