The revoking of the Most Favoured Nation to Pakistan is just the beginning of the pain for Pakistan. After decades of treating its dangerous neighbour with kid gloves, India is waking up to Chanakya's famous aphorism: \"The antidote of poison is poison, not nectar.\"

As many as 36 suspected Islamic State militants were killed in Afghanistan when the United States dropped \"the mother of all bombs,\" one of the largest non-nuclear devices ever unleashed in combat, the Afghan defence ministry said on Friday.