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Pakistan-Afghanistan peace talks collapse in Istanbul after four days of negotiations
ISTANBUL (Realist English). Peace talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan have collapsed in Istanbul after four days of negotiations, with Islamabad...
Pakistan and Afghanistan agree to 48-hour ceasefire after deadly border clashes
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a temporary 48-hour ceasefire after some of the worst fighting since...
Pakistan seizes 19 Afghan border posts after Taliban attacks
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Pakistani security forces have captured 19 Afghan border posts following what Islamabad described as “unprovoked cross-border attacks”...
Pakistan offers US role in building new Arabian Sea port near China-backed Gwadar
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). Advisers to Pakistan’s army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir have privately proposed that U.S. investors help develop...
Saudi Arabia signs mutual defence pact with Pakistan amid strains with U.S. and Israel
RIYADH (Realist English). Saudi Arabia has signed a “strategic mutual defence” agreement with Pakistan, marking a significant step in Riyadh’s...
Up to 50,000 terrorists preparing for Azerbaijan operation, analyst warns
MOSCOW (Realist English). Up to 50,000 fighters from among Pakistan’s Punjabis and Pashtuns are being prepared for redeployment to Azerbaijan...
Beijing meeting highlights Russia-Pakistan push for new trade routes
BEIJING (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif on the sidelines of an...
Pakistan and China reaffirm military ties with focus on air force cooperation
ISLAMABAD (Realist English). The heads of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) met...
India and Pakistan agree to ceasefire following days of cross-border attacks
ISLAMABAD / NEW DELHI (Realist News Agency). India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, ending one of the...
Over 60% of expected PLA attendees absent from Party plenum amid corruption crackdown
BEIJING (Realist English). President Xi Jinping’s tightening grip over China’s armed forces was on full display this autumn as an...
$100M ‘Midas’ scheme shakes Ukrainian government while blackouts spread nationwide
KYIV (Realist English). Ukraine is facing one of its most serious political crises since the start of Russia’s full-scale SVO,...
UK halts intelligence sharing with US over suspected unlawful Caribbean strikes
LONDON (Realist English). The United Kingdom has suspended the exchange of maritime intelligence with the United States amid concerns that...
Putin and Tokayev hold talks at the Kremlin amid strengthening Russia–Kazakhstan partnership
MOSCOW (Realist English). Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Kremlin on Tuesday evening, welcoming...
An unusual phenomenon at the Church of the Holy Savior in Shushi
YEREVAN (Realist English). In the distant year 1979, as a third-year university student, I used to visit the Church of...
War with Iran seen as inevitable, Armenia warned of looming regional storm
YEREVAN (Realist English). The war with Iran is drawing ever closer. And once again, this pulls Armenia into a zone...
Putin, Trump and Zelensky: is a trilateral meeting necessary?
MOSCOW (Realist English). Although more than a week has passed since the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S....
Russia’s elite: from Soviet nomenklatura to state corporations
MOSCOW (Realist English). The specificity of the Russian elite is defined by the nature of its origins: it grew out...
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