Pakistan

Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones assesses where conflicts are most likely to erupt over the next 12 months.

Days after reports of tentative negotiations between the US and the Taliban, Channel 4 News learns of a probable deal between the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban to fight under one banner, for one aim.

Senior Pakistani security officials and Taliban sources say four of the seven militants killed in a drone attack on Thursday in north Waziristan’s Shawal valley were British nationals.

A group of international aid agencies is warning that relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan, where millions of people have been affected, are under threat because of a lack of funds.

Former Pakistan test cricket captain Salman Butt is jailed for two years and six months for his part in a conspiracy to bowl deliberate no-balls in a Lord’s test match against England.

Two thousand Pakistanis join a rally against drone attacks, labelled a “global assassination campaign” by thinker Noam Chomsky as security sources say the latest strike has killed 13 militants.

A US drone strike in Pakistan has killed five commanders of a powerful Taliban faction which attacks western forces in Afghanistan, according to one of the group’s leaders.

A sports agent is accused of abusing the trust of the former Pakistani Test cricket captain during a match-fixing trial in London.

The most senior British diplomat working on Afghanistan has given the most damning assessment of the UK’s record in the country that I have heard from a serving official. Jonathan Rugman reports.

Prosecutors who accuse two top Pakistan cricketers of taking bribes to bowl no-balls in a match against England say it exposes the ‘rampant corruption’ at the heart of the game, a court has been told.

Aid agencies say Pakistan’s perceived links to terrorist groups is undermining their ability to raise funds internationally to tackle a second successive year of devastating floods.

Admiral Mike Mullen claims the Haqqani militant group blamed for an attack on the US embassy in Kabul is a “veritable arm” of Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service.

Abu Hafs al Shahri, believed to be al-Qaeda’s chief of operations in Pakistan, has reportedly been killed in a drone attack in Waziristan.

Pakistan says it has captured three al-Qaeda operatives, including “senior leader” Younis al-Mauritania, who it says took orders directly from Osama bin Laden.

The right-hand man of Osama bin Laden’s successor was killed in a raid in northwest Pakistan in a “tremendous loss” to the terrorist group, American sources said.