Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif arrived in Tehran today to meet with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and President Hassan Rouhani. The talks will focus on Afghanistan following US President Donald Trump’s recent decision to send more troops to the war-torn nation. Trump’s Aug. 21 policy speech raised eyebrows in Pakistan after he accused the South Asian country of supporting “agents of chaos, violence and terrorism.”
By Noor Zahid & Fazal Aziz, Voice of America: “A new al-Qaida-inspired militant group, which has recently emerged in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi claims to act as a platform for militants who have grown disaffected with the Islamic State militant group (IS) in the country."