Tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan flared this week after the Afghan Taliban government accused its neighbour of attacking a drug rehabilitation centre and killing ​more than 400 people - a charge denied by Islamabad.

Pakistan's president says that Afghanistan's Taliban government has 'crossed a red line' with drone attacks that wounded several people a day earlier.

The man served with the U.S. military in Afghanistan and entered the U.S. during the Taliban takeover in 2021.

ISLAMABAD, March 17 (Reuters) - Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban's closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in the early 1990s – as a way to give Pakistan "strategic depth" in its rivalry with India.