Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday acknowledged Turkiye’s constructive role in promoting peace efforts between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The development comes a day after Pakistan decided on a “temporary pause” in the ongoing Operation Ghazab lil-Haq against the Afghan Taliban in view of Eidul Fitr and “at the request of brotherly Islamic countries”, including Turkiye.

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ISLAMABAD: The United Nations has said that instability in Iran could trigger large-scale movements of people, particularly towards Balochistan.

In a statement issued from UN Headquarters, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher said Pakistan already hosts some 1.3 million registered refugees and it has limited capacity to absorb more.

He…

Framed as a strike on “evil,” Washington and Tel Aviv’s attacks leave Iran with few off-ramps. Tehran’s incentives now point toward escalation as a matter of survival.

A core claim of Trumpism was that the Right was turning the page on Bush-era neoconservatism in foreign policy. Today’s attack on Iran is yet more proof of just how false that claim always was. (AFP via Getty…