(Shamim Shahid) The recent reports emerging from Kandahar about a high-level, reportedly secretive meeting within the Taliban leadership circle have once again brought the complex ...

There were some positive signs after the Urumqi talks. For a brief moment, it appeared that the difficult and strained relationship between Pakistan and Afghanistan ...

(Mushtaq Yusufzai) The recent trajectory of Pakistan–Afghanistan relations reflects a familiar but deeply troubling pattern: brief moments of diplomatic optimism followed by renewed cycles of ...