[Comment] Pakistan and Afghanistan: a call for health diplomacy and restraint (opens in new tab)

The cross-border conflict affecting the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan has received scant global attention amid conflict in the Gulf region and the Middle East. Some 50 million civilians live across the long porous border between the countries,1 and face enormous health and nutrition challenges related to insecurity, displacement, stoppage of trade, and economic downturn. These border regions have seen almost constant conflict for nearly half a century (panel). During protracted h...