Pakistan has abolished its troubled northwest tribal areas in a historic parliamentary bill granting rights to millions of conflict-weary people and scrapping a draconian colonial-era regime. The ...

A weekslong war between Pakistan and Afghanistan was paused on March 18, 2026, to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. But ...

Pakistan’s ongoing military campaign against Afghanistan, initiated by airstrikes in late February 2026 targeting hideouts of ...

Coastal regions of India and Pakistan are on high alert as they prepare for the arrival of Cyclone Biparjoy. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in anticipation of the cyclone's landfall, ...

Baluchistan is a restive region shared by Iran and Pakistan where security forces on both sides of the border have for years battled militant groups but which now risks being the subject of escalating ...

The floods that hammered Pakistan during the summer took 2,000 lives and affected 20 million people, of whom 7 million remain homeless. At their peak, one-fifth of Pakistan was underwater, more than 3 ...

It's a land of daunting mountains, crisscrossed with rugged paths. Tucked in the valleys, families live a subsistence existence in mud houses secluded behind 10-foot-high walls, cooking over open ...

The Golden Crescent of South Asia – a region comprising Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan – is a principal site for the production and distribution of opium and heroin. Over the past few decades, war, ...

(Reuters) - Pakistani forces have killed up to 1,000 Islamist militants in an offensive for control over the strategically important northwestern region of Bajaur this month, the Pakistani military ...