Joshua Kurlantzick is senior fellow for Southeast Asia and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. As the United States and Iran inch toward a peace deal, Pakistan has emerged as an unlikely ...

A knot of defiant nations − three of them talked off a geopolitical cliff's edge at the eleventh hour. As Israel, Iran and the United States stood on the precipice of escalating a volatile war, China ...

Foreign ministers Ishaq Dar and Wang Yi met in Beijing as Pakistan pushes for peacemaker role Middle East crisis – live updates Pakistan and China have released a joint five-part proposal for peace in ...

Pakistan, which has cultivated ties with both Washington and Tehran, sees a diplomatic opening to intervene in the war in Iran, its neighbor. By Elian Peltier Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif of Pakistan ...

Islamabad has so far presented itself as a "neutral" party in the conflict, condemning the US-Israeli strikes on Iran as well as castigating Tehran for its attacks on Saudi Arabia and other Gulf ...

Following the U.S.-Israel joint attacks on Iran since February 27 and the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei, there is a real danger of conflict morphing into a broader ...

Pakistan war latest: Taliban lays out how it wants fighting to end - after Islamabad makes drone claim After rising tensions over the past few days and longstanding disagreements, Pakistan bombed ...

Reporter Pakistan has declared “open war” with the Taliban-led Afghanistan after the two governments escalated deadly attacks on each other. Pakistan bombed Afghanistan’s two biggest cities, Kabul and ...

The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening relations between the neighboring countries. By Elian Peltier Safiullah Padshah and ...

Pakistan has launched air strikes on Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities, as clashes escalate along the two countries’ shared border. On Friday, Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif ...

Islamabad, Pakistan – India and Pakistan fired missiles at each other’s military bases on Saturday morning, the latest escalation in their rapid drift towards an all-out war. Pakistan accused India of ...

New Delhi controls around 172 nuclear weapons, according to the Arms Control Association. Pakistan has approximately 170 nuclear warheads. India and Pakistan, two ...