Islamabad: Pakistan's experience in Afghanistan demonstrates the risks of leveraging militant proxies for immediate strategic advantage, turning what was once considered a force multiplier into

Pakistan has declared open war on the Afghan Taliban, launching airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and other key targets after Taliban forces attacked border posts in a major escalation along the disputed Durand Line.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered to mediate for a new ceasefire between Pakistan and Afghanistan as border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan entered their sixth day on Wednesday.

Pakistan says it has killed hundreds of fighters in Afghanistan after declaring “open war” on the Taliban. On Friday, Pakistan launched air strikes on Kabul and two other Afghan provinces, which it said targeted ammunition depots, Taliban military installations and militant hideouts.

The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening relations between the neighboring countries.

Four hundred and eighty-one Afghan Taliban operatives have so far been killed and over six hundred and ninety six injured during the ongoing Operation Ghazab lil-Haq.

By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Asif Shahzad KABUL/ISLAMABAD, March 2 (Reuters) - Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Monday that their militaries had targeted each other's posts across the border as their fighting entered a fifth day,

Pakistan’s president is defending cross-border strikes in Afghanistan and urges the Taliban government to disarm militants attacking his country

The current fighting marks the latest episode of escalation between the two Muslim states after weeks of escalating tensions and is their most significant conflict since 2021.

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India.

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan have issued a draconian decree that makes sodomy punishable by death and allows men to beat their wives so long as they don’t break bones or leave visible, lasting wounds.