Pakistan

Germany’s new Supply Chain Act could help curb some of the world’s worst labor injustices.

Afghanistan’s government doesn’t recognize a 130-year-old border—and its local affiliates are causing havoc in the Pakistani borderlands.

The country needs reconciliation. The next government will bring more political conflict.

The jailed politician still stirs national pride.

With opposition leader Imran Khan behind bars, the Feb. 8 vote offers little hope for near-term stability.

Washington’s favorite prescription for Israeli-Palestinian peace risks unleashing a wave of interethnic violence unseen since the partition of India and Pakistan.

Washington’s approach appears to be failing—but a military focus on Iran may not resolve the fundamental problems in the region.

Dozens of countries will vote this year. In many of them, democracy is at a tipping point.

These are the international disputes that are currently flying under the radar but could emerge as major flash points in the coming year.

As the world threatens to breach a critical global warming threshold, cooperation still seems to fall short.

The legacies of departed leaders from Pervez Musharraf to Henry Kissinger still shape world politics.

As relations between Islamabad and the Taliban have soured, ordinary Afghans have become political pawns.

Resuming trade with India is a chance to escape spiraling crises.

The Indus Waters Treaty was created to avoid conflict. To confront the climate crisis, it must evolve.

The country’s democratic backsliding goes further than the embattled former prime minister—and further back.