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Pakistan's politics

  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Pakistan pitches Nobel, crypto and rare earths to woo Trump

    Cash-strapped Islamabad tries to stave off trade tariffs and deepen ties with White House

    A montage featuring Asim Munir, Donald Trump, Bitcoin and Xenotime, a rare earth found in Pakistan
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    News in-depth
    Pakistan’s strongman courts US while drawing closer to China

    Military chief Asim Munir’s visit to Washington highlights warming ties despite India’s efforts to isolate Islamabad

    Asim Munir saluting at an outdoor ceremony in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on May 21 2025
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    News in-depthIndia-Pakistan tensions
    India and Pakistan launch rival diplomatic efforts to spin Kashmir conflict

    New Delhi and Islamabad dispatch delegations to global capitals to push their case after worst fighting in decades

    Indians march in support of a military offensive against Pakistan this month in New Delhi
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    India-Pakistan tensions
    Pakistan military warns India is ‘playing with fire’ in Kashmir conflict

    Senior army officer calls on international partners to restrain New Delhi from further attacks

    Damaged buildings in Pakistan-administered Kashmir after an exchange of fire between Pakistan and India this month
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    News in-depthIndia-Pakistan tensions
    China’s J-10 ‘Dragon’ shows teeth in India-Pakistan combat debut

    Skirmish is first test of Beijing’s military hardware against advanced western technology

  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    News in-depthIndia-Pakistan tensions
    Military briefing: India and Pakistan test red lines of nuclear rivalry

    Clashes have been carefully calibrated since they became atomic powers. But the informal rules are fraying

    Montage showing India-Pakistan military tension with soldiers, missile truck, and warplane over mountains.
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    Ayesha Siddiqa
    Pakistan’s bellicose army chief is playing with fire

    At a time of crisis, the country is being led by a general not known for his restraint

    General Asim Munir speaks to troops from Pakistan’s Mangla Strike Corps atop a tank in Jhelum, Punjab province, last week
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    India-Pakistan tensions
    Pakistani drone attacks ‘neutralised’, says India, as skirmishes escalate

    New Delhi also claims its forces knocked out air defence system in Lahore

    Pakistani paramilitary soldiers stand guard as investigators collect pieces of a suspected Indian drone in Karachi
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    India-Pakistan tensions
    Trump offers to mediate as India-Pakistan conflict spirals

    Washington has conveyed mixed messages since massacre in Kashmir last month, say analysts

    US President Donald Trump meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in February
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    News in-depthIndia-Pakistan tensions
    Attack in the heart of Kashmir: Pakistanis voice fear after deadly strikes

    Indian assault that killed dozens sparks groundswell of support for retaliation from Islamabad

    Soldiers inspect the debris of a mosque after Indian strikes in Muzaffarabad in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 7 2025
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Averting a spiral of escalation between India and Pakistan

    Crisis between nuclear-armed neighbours is a big test for global diplomacy

    A general view of a damaged structure in the Kotli district of Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  • Wednesday, 7 May, 2025
    India-Pakistan tensions
    Military briefing: How Indian might stacks up against Pakistan

    Tit-for-tat strikes represent most extensive exchange between neighbours in decades

    Indian soldiers stand guard as a woman walks in a market in Srinagar
  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    Sunil Amrith
    Undermining the Indus Waters Treaty imperils Indian security

    New Delhi’s efforts to downgrade ties with Islamabad will inflict damage on both sides of the border

    Confluence of Zanskar and Indus rivers in Leh, Ladakh, India
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Pakistan threatens to deport Afghan refugees after Trump funding cuts

    Suspension of foreign aid and resettlement programmes endanger 870,000 people, analysts warn

    An Afghan woman protests against the Trump administration’s immigration ban in Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Pakistan
    Pakistan rescues hostages seized from train by Balochistan separatists

    State-run radio says all militants involved in railway ambush killed, but fate of some passengers still unclear

    A paramilitary soldier at a railway station in the Sibi district of Pakistan’s south-western Balochistan province
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Pakistan
    Pakistan to seek extradition of billionaire tycoon from UAE

    Developer Malik Riaz Hussain says fraud allegations by anti-corruption watchdog are attempt to ‘blackmail’ him

    Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    News in-depthPakistan
    Pakistan’s bet on Taliban backfires as violence surges

    Islamabad had deadliest year in almost a decade following rise in terror attacks

    Relatives and local residents attend the funeral of a police officer who was killed by suspected militants in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    Pakistan’s military struggles to solve ‘Imran Khan problem’

    Jailed former prime minister remains hugely popular and capable of mobilising support, say analysts

  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    Imran Khan supporters pour into capital to challenge Pakistan’s government

    Thousands of demonstrators breach barricades to reach close to Islamabad’s Red Zone before being pushed back

    Protesters wearing masks and helmets walk through thick clouds of tear gas in Islamabad
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Pakistan capital under lockdown as protesters call for Khan’s release

    Supporters of jailed former prime minister march on Islamabad in latest threat to Shehbaz Sharif’s legitimacy

    Policemen during a protest by the supporters of the opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    News in-depth
    Xi faces heat over failure to protect Chinese workers overseas

    Bomb attack by Pakistan separatists adds to pressure on Beijing to secure interests

    Chinese President Xi Jinping walks past uniformed military personnel holding rifles
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    News in-depthPakistan's economy
    Pakistan’s military backs Sharif in push for IMF reforms

    Country’s powerful armed forces support Islamabad’s painful restructuring under $7bn bailout

    Paramilitary soldiers stand guard along a road, ahead of the general elections in Karachi, Pakistan
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    News in-depth
    Pakistan’s old guard confronts shock Imran Khan upset in Punjab

    Surge for jailed former PM’s candidates in base for army and dynastic parties could weaken incoming coalition

    Guards at a polling station during last Wednesday’s election
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Pakistan
    Imran Khan’s rivals nominate Shehbaz Sharif to lead new Pakistan government

    Jailed former PM says proposed alliance has ‘no moral ground’ after allegations of vote rigging

    Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif
  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Imran Khan rises again in Pakistan

    Pakistan’s shocking election results have left the country in turmoil

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