This is Pakistan’s most significant formal defense pact in decades, and the first such agreement that an Arab Gulf state has inked with a nuclear-armed partner.

Police say a suicide bomber blew himself up as supporters of a nationalist party were leaving a rally in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and wounding 30 others.

Monty Panesar believes the India-Pakistan handshake controversy has dampened enthusiasm for their Asia Cup Super 4 match. He urges both teams to prior

Deal reflects the Gulf’s anxieties as US credibility wanes after Israel’s attack on Doha. But it affects India, too.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s prioritization of dialogue with the TTP is at odds with the federal government’s focus on military operations.

The India-Pakistan cricketing rivalry has always been a proxy war of sorts, a battle between bat and ball, which, in the hearts of fans, was a matter of national pride, where victory was an obligation and defeat unacceptable.

India’s players find themselves in a similar, but not same, predicament as their neighbours ahead of their Asia Cup Super 4 clash, though where Pakistan have been defiant and passive-aggressive, Suryakumar and his boys have opted to maintain stoicism and an air of bonhomie.