All rival party leaders who competed against the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) in Myanmar’s election were either defeated or barred, as the USDP swept to victory in a ...

Critics say the polls were neither free nor fair, and were designed to legitimize the power of the military after it ousted ...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Voting was held Sunday in Myanmar in the final round of a three-stage general election, capping a ...

A young population, bold reforms, and a wave of private-sector innovation are reshaping Pakistan’s investment landscape as the country moves into 2026. Pakistan stands at a defining inflection point.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan on Friday announced the arrest of four militants over their alleged involvement in a deadly suicide bombing outside a district court in the capital, a breakthrough in an ...

Taliban security personnel stand guard near the Ghulam Khan border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan in Afghanistan's Khost province on Oct. 20, a day after a ceasefire was agreed in Doha, ...

Pakistan's defense minister on Wednesday threatened to "obliterate" the Taliban, which controls neighboring Afghanistan, after negotiations toward lasting peace between the two sides failed. Peace ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistan banned a hard-line Islamist party on Thursday, more than a week after heated clashes with police that left at least five people dead. The ban follows a march by the party, Tehreek ...

The eruption of tensions across the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in mid-October – marked by a week of cross-border shelling and gunfire that killed dozens – was not an aberration. Pakistan’s relations ...

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Afghanistan and Pakistan, embroiled in fighting that has killed dozens of people and injured hundreds, pledged on Sunday to respect a ceasefire. The truce, mediated by Qatar and Turkey, came into ...

A worrying pattern has emerged. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani version of the Taliban, ramps up attacks inside Pakistan. In response, Pakistan’s government demands that its ...