Najmuddin Shaikh speculates on the challenges which face this country in future years as part of Dawn.coms launch special Flash-forward Pakistan where do we go from here? RELATIONS between Pakistan ...

The entirety of Pakistan’s politics, including its conflicts and paradoxes, is wrapped up in the question of who the next chief of army staff will be. Pakistan’s Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa ...

To understand the scale of the challenge facing him as President Obama‘s envoy to promote U.S. interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke might consider the story of Amjad Islam. Islam, ...

Former cricket star-turned politician Imran Khan, who was voted out by Pakistan’s parliament from the office of prime minister, is back doing what he does best: rabblerousing. Khan is blaming the ...

This is as much a problem of psychology as policy. Few nations are as paranoid as Pakistan–where it is a widespread belief that India is behind every setback, that the United States plans to seize ...

(Reuters) - The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi Thursday to resume official contacts which India broke off after militants attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in late ...

Pakistan’s border with Iran has always been a porous one. There are no major mountain ranges or complex river systems separating the two countries and the Balochistan region, which straddles both ...

Al Qaeda is based in Pakistan and Al Qaeda's policy is the overthrow of the current system in Pakistan to be replaced by one controlled by Al Qaeda, and the acquisition of nuclear weapons, of which ...

Pakistan's government and its international allies are rushing relief supplies to those displaced by the war in Swat Valley and surrounding areas. More than one and a half million people have fled the ...