Pakistan fears two things more than war with India: pressure from Washington and indifference from Beijing. In the latest round of tit-for-tat fighting with India, Pakistan saw a bit of both – more ...

Pakistan’s problems are often discussed in isolation, but their impact reaches much further. This video breaks down how economic collapse, political instability, and climate stress are converging.

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 ...

AS CONCERN BUILDS within Washington’s political, military, and intelligence circles over the rise of the Taliban and al Qaeda in northwestern Pakistan, the search for a proper policy to deal with the ...

The bloom is off the rose for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, the crown jewel of China’s vaunted Belt and Road Initiative — designed to economically link Europe, Eurasia, Africa, the Middle East ...

When the world looks at Pakistan, its attention justifiably focuses on the rugged northern border with Afghanistan, a nexus of Taliban activity and the site of an ongoing multi-pronged campaign ...

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, ...

Boys played amid stinky puddles and dodged trash sludge oozing from plastic bags carpeting a muddy riverbed in Saidpur, a village that connects to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, by a narrow road. "God ...

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 ...

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 ...