With Imran Khan in jail, Pakistan gears up for election most voters don’t trust
At the top of a winding road in the hills of Islamabad, deep in the backyard of a private home, dozens of people gather and wait for a political rally …
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What’s at stake for China as border tensions flare between Iran and Pakistan?
Tehran said it was targeting Jaish al-Adl, a Sunni separatist group that operates mostly in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province bordering Pakistan, where the ethnic Baloch are people seeking independence. …
Pakistan says two children killed in Iranian missile strike, recalls ambassador
Officials in Pakistan say two children were killed and three women injured in a missile strike from neighbouring Iran on Tuesday. Iran’s foreign minister said the “missile and drone” strikes hit …
India’s Supreme Court upholds decision to end Kashmir’s special status
India’s top court on Monday upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous region with a separate …
Former Afghan interpreter for Canadian Armed Forces arrested by the Taliban, family says
A former Canadian Armed Forces military interpreter has been arrested by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, CBC News has learned. “One morning I went to the [gym] with my father,” …
Six Afghan families with ties to Canada have been deported from Pakistan, veterans group says
Six Afghan families with ties to Canada have been deported from Pakistan back to Afghanistan, a Canadian veterans group says. “I’m extremely concerned by the current stance that Pakistan has taken to …
Miller still hopes to see Afghans from Pakistan arrive in ‘next few weeks’
The federal government is still speaking to counterparts in Pakistan and planning for flights carrying Afghans to arrive here from Islamabad in the next few weeks, Immigration Minister Marc Miller …
Pakistan begins mass deportations of Afghans living there illegally
Pakistani security forces on Wednesday rounded up, detained and deported dozens of Afghans who were living in the country illegally, after a government-set deadline for them to leave expired, authorities …
Afghans leave Pakistan ‘with a heavy heart’ as it forces out settled migrants to protect ‘welfare and security’
She was around 10 years old when her family fled the Soviet war in Afghanistan, settling in Kashmir where she raised a family and where her husband is buried. Millions …
Pakistan prepares deportation centres as deadline for Afghans looms
The Pakistani government said it would open several “holding centres” for undocumented migrants as a deportation deadline looms for hundreds of thousands of Afghans. Islamabad has given Afghans it says …