In a major setback following coordinated attacks by Afghan Taliban fighters on military posts along the Durand Line, Pakistan’s army chief, General Asim Munir, held an emergency meeting at GHQ Rawalpindi and demanded an intelligence report.

The Taliban government has confirmed that it attacked Pakistani troops in multiple mountainous locations on the northern border. Casualties are not yet clear in what the Taliban called "retaliatory operations", after it said Pakistan violated Afghan airspace and bombed a market inside its border on Thursday.

A full-blown conflict between Afghanistan’s Taliban and neighboring Pakistan seemed unthinkable when the hard-line Islamist group, a longtime ally of Islamabad, seized power in 2021 as international troops withdrew and the government their supported collapsed.

Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed a police officer guarding polio vaccinators on Tuesday (Oct 14), police said, on the second day of a nationwide campaign to counter rising cases.

What began as airstrikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory has spiralled into a full-blown military clash, exposing the collapse of Islamabad’s once-vaunted control over the Taliban.

Pakistan uprooted the Taliban with U.S. help in the 2010s. But the insurgency has resurfaced with assistance from the Afghan Taliban.

Amid rising border tensions, Imran Khan’s political party has openly criticized the Pakistan Army, further intensifying internal unrest in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Watch the full video for detailed coverage.

Border clashes over the weekend between Afghanistan and Pakistan led to the deaths of dozens of soldiers, the most serious clash between the two countries since the Taliban seized power in Kabul in 2021,

The ISI, long the architect and backer of militant networks in the region, including the Deobandi stronghold Afghan Taliban and TTP, appears to be losing its influence over both.