Pakistan's defence minister declares "open war" against Taliban after Islamabad says two of its soldiers were killed.

Pakistan’s president is defending cross-border strikes in Afghanistan and urges the Taliban government to disarm militants attacking his country.

The irony is that Pakistan had little direct stake in the US-Israel operation against Iran. Yet the country ended up paying a domestic price for it.

Smoke and flames rise from the premises of the U.N. office, after it was set ablaze by protesters, following news of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the city of Gilgit, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan March 1, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Mubarak Hussain

NEW DELHI – The escalating conflict in the Middle East has caused the death of an Indian national aboard an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, while simultaneously triggering violent, deadly protests against US diplomatic missions across Pakistan.

At least 22 people were killed in protests outside the U.S. Consulate in the southern port city of Karachi and a United Nations office in northern Pakistan.

Pakistan will not hesitate to target top leadership of the Afghan Taliban, including reclusive supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, if credible intelligence becomes available, a senior security source disclosed on Monday, as Islamabad presses ahead with an expanded military campaign across the border.