Tag: Pakistan

Pakistani Army chief Syed Asim Munir, widely considered the most powerful person in his country’s government, is now at the peak of his career. This month’s fighting with India, which ...

In June 2017, Indian and Chinese troops stared each other down on the windswept Doklam plateau in Bhutan, beginning a standoff that lasted for 73 days. The trigger was a ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan’s military sees its political fortunes improve after the recent conflict with India, U.S.-India trade talks keep moving with the ...

POONCH, Jammu and Kashmir—In the early hours of May 7, 12-year-old twins Zain Ali and Urwa Fatima cowered in their family home as the walls around them shook amid heavy ...

The dust has yet to settle on the most recent Pakistan-India crisis, but another one is already—and inevitably—around the corner within the next few years. The Pakistani Army, which rules ...

The recent military confrontation between India and Pakistan, which involved the worst fighting between the regional rivals in decades, marked the first time the two nuclear powers used drones against ...

In the summer of 1999, Indian and Pakistani troops clashed in the heights of Kargil district in Indian-administered Kashmir. After Pakistani forces occupied Indian positions across the contested border, known ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The recent India-Pakistan crisis fuels a disinformation spiral, Bangladesh bans the activities of the once-powerful Awami League party, and Pakistan ...

It was widely understood that India would respond militarily to what it called a Pakistan-sponsored terrorist attack that occurred on April 22 in the town of Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, ...

WASHINGTON –The US brokered a “full and immediate ceasefire” between Pakistan and India, President Trump announced Saturday, a move expected to end the violence which recently erupted in the Kashmir ...