Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

Japan is hoping to counter China in Pakistan, while Islamabad is trying to counteract Tokyo’s historically tight ties with India.

Pakistan wants a more stable relationship with India, but “that doesn’t mean it wants to pursue reconciliation.”

Bilateral relations between Pakistan and India remain stagnant, but that was not the goal of Bhutto Zardari’s trip.

The Taliban regime’s Amir Khan Muttaqi met Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and Pakistani army chief General Asim Munir.

Pakistan’s foreign minister was in India for the SCO meeting last week. But there was no breakthrough on the bilateral front.

Pakistan’s foreign minister will be traveling to India to attend the summit, making him the first high-ranking Pakistani official to visit India since 2014. 

While India’s foreign minister described Pakistan as the “epicenter of terrorism,” his Pakistani counterpart labeled the Indian PM as “the butcher of Gujarat.”

Economic isolation and privation such as Afghanistan has experienced since the Taliban takeover only feed authoritarianism and extremism, Pakistan’s foreign minister said. 

Rapprochement could help ease Pakistan’s troubles with negotiating loans from the IMF.

The Imran Khan government is still refusing to seek cooperation from the opposition, even amid a health emergency.

Pakistanis gear up for a high-stakes election on Wednesday.

Can Benazir Bhutto’s son create bring his mother’s dynamism to the party’s politics?