Bangladesh's sports adviser Asif Nazrul thanked Pakistan for backing Dhaka's boycott of the T20 World Cup, after Islamabad decided to skip its match against India in Colombo. A day earlier, Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif publicly justified the move as standing "completely" with Bangladesh.

Some 60,000 evacuees have been left in limbo by confusion and political disputes as Pakistan battles insurgents on its border with Afghanistan.

A look at Balochistan’s history of rebellion, state crackdowns and why violence keeps returning.

Pakistan’s renewed relevance in great power politics in 2025 came as the military consolidated its power and further eroded democratic institutions.

Xi’s statement came three weeks after the seventh round of China-Pakistan Foreign Ministers’ Strategic Dialogue, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the bilateral relations between the two countries. Vows to “strengthen mutual trust” echoed in Beijing, alongside the customary reminders that the two are “all-weather friends.”

The South Asian nation heads to the polls on February 12, almost two years after the 2024 student-led uprising.

India–Pakistan cricket relations have often mirrored the political situation between the two countries. Pakistan’s recent boycott is another reflection of the same.

The series of coordinated attacks across Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province also left at least 31 civilians and 17 security personnel dead.Pakistani security forces on Sunday searched for separatists behind a series of coordinated gun and bomb attacks across the southwestern Balochistan province.