Problems in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan Province have exposed three stark fault lines within the Iranian political system: national-ethnic, Shi’ite-Sunni, and center-periphery. Over the last three decades, the government has done little for the country’s ethnic and religious minorities.
With the recent unrest in Baluchistan -- a vast desert region spanning Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran along the Arabian Sea shoreline -- comes renewed tensions across the region. And with renewed tensions come further setbacks to efforts to establish regional peace.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced several new aid projects aimed at improving Pakistan's water, energy, and health sectors.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have signed what is being hailed as a landmark trade deal.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Pakistan, kicking off a tour of South Asia aimed at refining the goals of the nearly 9-year-old war in Afghanistan.
Militants have opened fire on a civilian convoy escorted by security forces in Pakistan’s tribal region, killing at least 18 people.
A bomb explosion killed at least eight people and injured 15 others in a remote village in Pakistan's Khyber Tribal Agency on July 16.
The blast occurred at a bus terminal in the town of Mingora.
Former Pakistani lawmaker and nationalist leader Habib Jalib was shot dead today in Pakistan's southern city of Quetta.
Senior U.S. civilian and military leaders are pushing for Washington to designate major Taliban networks as terrorists. But the move could adversely affect Afghan President Hamid Karzai administration's efforts to negotiate with certain Taliban networks based in Pakistan.
Police in Pakistan's northwest say they have rounded up more than 650 suspected militants after a major bomb attack last week that left more than 100 dead.
A bomb attack apparently targeting a tribal elder in northern Pakistan killed a teenage boy on July 12.
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