Tag: Pakistan
Pakistani Airstrikes Escalate Conflict on Afghan Border
MANDATAH VILLAGE, Afghanistan — It was nearly 3 a.m. in the mountainous borderlands of eastern Afghanistan when a…
Shehbaz Sharif Becomes Interim Prime Minister of Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Pakistani Parliament selected the opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif to become the country’s interim prime minister…
Pakistan’s Supreme Court Blocks Imran Khan’s Move to Stay in Power
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday overturned Prime Minister Imran Khan’s move to dissolve Parliament, setting…
Who Is Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Prime Minister?
Imran Khan was elected as Pakistan’s prime minister in 2018 when he ran as a nationalist promising to…
Imran Khan Says He Won’t Accept Result of No-Confidence Vote
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Less than a day from a no-confidence vote that will almost certainly remove him from…
India Accidentally Fires a Missile at Pakistan. Calm Ensues.
JAIPUR, India — One nuclear-armed state fired a cruise missile at another nuclear-armed state this week. They were…
The Smugglers’ Paradise of Afghanistan
ZARANJ, Afghanistan — The smuggler barreled down the narrow dirt road, bouncing into craters and over rocks that…
When Architects Made Worlds
Rahul Mehrotra, the architect and Harvard professor, writes in the catalog about the challenge of housing. Faced with…
More Than a Million Afghans Flee as Economy Collapses
ZARANJ, Afghanistan — From their hide-out in the desert ravine, the migrants could just make out the white…