The mujahideen misadventure, with Pakistan serving as a crucial conduit, ballooned under Ronald Reagan into the CIA’s largest covert operation, spawning the likes of Al Qaeda and the Taliban ...

His National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski travelled to Pakistan, met the Afghan refugees ... of Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban in 1996. But what Washington wanted was to defeat ...

After the passing of the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, we take a look back at 10 defining moments from his time in the White House.

THERE is a certain point of view held by some historians and political scholars that the United States intervention in Afghanistan under then-president Jimmy Carter was directly responsible for ...

Is Pakistan on the verge of losing its erstwhile friend, the Afghan Taliban, to its arch-rival India? India’s Foreign ...

When the Taliban seized power in Kabul in August 2021, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed delivered a triumphant news conference at the Torkham crossing with Afghanistan.

Afghan Taliban said it targeted "several points" in Pakistan. Pakistan-Taliban war: The Pakistan-Taliban war has intensified over the past 24 hours as Afghan Taliban fighters attacked the ...

While a reconciliation between the two estranged partners – the Taliban and Islamabad – seems impossible, the rift has opened ...

Taliban Turns Against Pakistan: When Taliban fighters seized power in Kabul, Pakistan was one of the few countries that welcomed the development. The then-Prime Minister Imran Khan praised the ...

When the Taliban took control of Kabul in 2021, Pakistan’s then prime minister Imran Khan lauded Afghanistan for breaking “the shackles of slavery”. Khan’s spymaster Faiz Hameed was ...

Amid escalating tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islamabad has once again initiated its efforts to normalise relations with the Taliban Government by holding closed-door discussions with ...