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From Ally to Adversary: Why Pakistan Struck the Afghan Taliban
For decades, Pakistan was the Afghan Taliban’s closest supporter. Islamabad helped the Taliban rise in the early 1990s, seeking “strategic depth” in its rivalry...
Why Afghanistan and Pakistan Are Fighting Again?
Air strikes on Kabul, Kandahar and other Afghan cities mark the sharpest escalation yet in months of cross-border tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban...
Pakistan Declares “Open War” After Strikes on Afghan Cities
Pakistan has launched air-to-ground missile strikes on targets in Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia, marking one of the most serious escalations with Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities...
Pakistan on High Alert Amid Fears of Militant Retaliation
Pakistan has intensified its security measures and arrested dozens of suspects after carrying out air strikes on targets in Afghanistan over the past weekend....
Ungoverned Space and Regional Spillover, Rethinking Afghanistan’s Borders
The Afghanistan crisis is generally spoken of as a crisis of the hour in terms of the Taliban, outside power intervention, or an unsuccessful...
At Least 13 Killed in Karachi Building Collapse After Gas Blast
At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed when a residential building collapsed following a gas cylinder explosion in Karachi on Thursday....
Deadly Taliban Attack Kills 12 at Pakistan Checkpoint
A devastating suicide attack struck a Pakistani army checkpoint in Bajur district, near the Afghan border, leaving 11 security personnel and one child dead....
East at a Crossroads of Conflicts
The world's attention is focused primarily on the conflict in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the potential for armed clashes in another part of the world is...
Can the Military Force Solve a Political Problem? Pakistan’s 77-Year Balochistan Crisis
On January 31, coordinated attacks across nearly a dozen cities in Balochistan killed more than 30 civilians and 18 law enforcement personnel. The Baloch...
Women Suicide Bombers and Advanced Arms Mark Shift in Pakistan’s Baloch Insurgency
Pakistan’s long-running insurgency in Balochistan is entering a new and more complex phase, marked by the participation of women in suicide attacks and the...