Former indian foreign service officer Amar Jit Singh, who has served as India’s consul general in Afghanistan, has warned that Pakistan’s recent actions could lead to “yet another war” with potentially disastrous consequences for the country. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif looks on during a business and investment conference in Kuala Lumpur.(AP file) In a…
Fragile ceasefire continues to hold despite clashes that killed dozens on both sides before the truce took effect. The United Nations has called on the warring Afghan and Pakistani military forces to permanently end hostilities, after a 48-hour ceasefire took effect following days of skirmishes that killed dozens and injured more than 100 others. In…
Published On 16 Oct 202516 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Pakistan and Afghanistan have implemented a ceasefire following the deadliest border clashes in years that killed dozens of people and led to evacuations on both sides. The 48-hour truce began Wednesday at 6:00pm Islamabad time (13:00 GMT), with each…
US President Donald Trump has once again claimed his hand in the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. While speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday, the US president stated he saved the world from a potential nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. Donald Trump reiterated the Shehbaz Sharif’s praise for him, adding that his intervention…
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers announced that a ceasefire with neighboring Pakistan would go into effect Wednesday, after a second eruption of cross-border violence in less than a week that has left dozens of people dead and injured and seen Pakistan carry out unprecedented airstrikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a…
Brief flare-up spanned southeastern Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district and Pakistan’s Chaman district. Clashes between Pakistani and Afghan forces have killed and wounded dozens in a remote border area, as hostilities deepen between the two former allies. Both sides accused the other of triggering the deadly violence overnight Tuesday that spanned southeastern Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district…
Fighting erupted on the Afghan-Pakistani border on Wednesday with Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers saying 12 people were killed in a renewed onslaught by the Pakistani military. Newsweek has contacted the Pakistani military via email for comment. Why It Matters Afghanistan is one of the world’s poorest and most isolated countries and the conflict with Pakistan will…
At least 15 civilians were killed and over 100 wounded in renewed cross-border clashes between Afghan and Pakistani forces in Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district, said foreign media reports. New Delhi: Fifteen civilians reportedly lost their lives and dozens more were injured during overnight clashes in the Spin Boldak district, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. According…
TOI correspondent from Washington: Pakistan laid it on thick. Donald Trump lapped it up. The US-Pak lovefest took Sharm-el-Sheikh by storm on Sunday, eclipsing a middle-east peace celebration hosted by Egypt, after Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said he would renew his country’s nomination of Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize that the US President…
India was represented by MoS Kirti Vardhan Singh, highlighting support for peace initiatives and humanitarian efforts in Gaza. New Delhi: US President Donald Trump, at the Egypt-hosted Peace Summit on Gaza, expressed optimism about South Asian relations, saying, “I think Pakistan and India are going to live very nicely together,” while turning to Pakistan’s Prime…