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key outlawed Pakistani militant group behind numerous gun and bomb attacks announced a three-day ceasefire early Thursday ahead of a key Muslim holiday, hours after Pakistan and Afghanistan also declared a temporary pau...

Heavy rains and strong winds lashed Pakistan’s largest city overnight, killing at least 15 people and injuring several others as walls and roofs collapsed at multiple locations, emergency services and hospital officials...

Pakistani minister ‘strongly refutes and rejects’ Afghan government’s accusation, saying his country only targets military sites.

An air strike by Pakistan on Monday that the Afghan government says killed hundreds of civilians has led to an escalation in the conflict between the South Asian ​neighbours.

Pakistan has targeted militant hideouts in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province overnight, as the fighting that erupted between the two neighbours late last month showed no signs of abating.

Pakistan bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan's airport of Kandahar, the ruling ​Taliban said on Friday, stepping up the neighbours' worst conflict in years, despite China's efforts to mediat...

Four-day workweek for government employees and two-week closure of schools among the measures aimed at saving energy amid disruptions linked to the Middle East conflict.

Pakistani and Afghan troops exchanged fire at dozens of points along their border on Friday as the ​U.N. said their week-old conflict has forced the displacement of more than 100,000 people.

Hundreds of minority Shiites rallied Friday in Pakistan’s capital and elsewhere in the country to denounce the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in U.S.-Israeli strikes, as the U.S. Embassy In Islam...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to mediate for a new ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan as border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan entered their sixth day on Wednesday.

Pakistani and Afghan troops clashed at multiple points along their expansive border on Tuesday as the United Nations ‌mission for Afghanistan warned that 42 civilians in the country had been killed so far in the six-day...

Pakistan has called in the military and imposed a three-day curfew in some areas following deadly protests over the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint United States-Israeli attack on Satur...

Pakistani authorities deployed troops and imposed a three-day curfew before dawn Monday in the northern cities of Gilgit and Skardu after several people died and tens were injured in violent protests following the killin...

Afghanistan said it was firing at Pakistani jets in Kabul after blasts and gunfire rocked the capital Sunday, compounding instability in a region rattled by U.S.–Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory attacks on U.S. t...

Pakistan and Afghanistan traded attacks in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the countries that Pakistan’s defense minister said Friday means they are now in “open war.”

On February 22, Pakistan carried out air strikes in Afghanistan, targeting suspected camps and hideouts of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP).

Gunmen ambushed a police vehicle and killed five officials in north-west Pakistan on Feb 24, the police said, as the South Asian nation struggles to quell a rising wave of militant attacks and faces renewed border tensio...

A senior Pakistani government official has claimed that its military killed at least 70 fighters in air raids along the border with Afghanistan, claims Kabul has denied, amid escalating tensions between the two South Asi...

Pakistan’s Foreign Office summoned the Afghan Deputy Ambassador on Monday to formally register a strong protest following the recent terrorist attack in Bajaur.

A gas explosion has torn through an apartment building in Pakistan’s largest port city of Karachi, killing at least 16 people, including women and children, and injuring several others after part of the structure collaps...