Wen Extends Support to Embattled Pakistan
The Chinese premier received a warm welcome in Pakistan. He is one of the few friends the country has left.
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Sanctuaries Hamper Progress in Afghanistan
Experts respond to the administration’s war review. Vice President Joe Biden promises withdrawal no matter what.
Gains in Afghanistan “Fragile and Reversible”
Progress in Afghanistan can be undermined as long as safe havens exist for insurgents across the border in Pakistan.
US Set to Expand Drone Strikes in Pakistan
With no sustainable alternative for fighting terrorism in Pakistan, the United States seek to expand their drone program into Quetta.
Obama’s India Visit Overlooks Geopolitics
Obama’s India trip may have been a diplomatic success but there’s more to international relations than diplomacy.
Rumors of Negotiation in Afghanistan
Questions linger over whether Taliban “negotiators” are actually speaking for the group.
India Should Fight Military Aid to Pakistan
Pakistan is rewarded for being a nuisance with billions in aid. Manasi Kakatkar-Kulkarni urges India to contest this injustice.
Drones are America’s Default Option
When examining all of the options available for dealing with Pakistan’s insurgency, drone strikes come ahead as the most plausible.
Obama Should Take His Eyes Off Kashmir
The United States should not insist on a resolution of India-Pakistan disputes rather allow India to conduct its own policy.
Where’s the Love for Pakistan?
Where the world set aside its differences to help countries recently devastated by natural disaster, for Pakistan, aid is scarce.
America’s Shadow War on Terror
Terrorists are fleeing to Africa and Asia. The United States should be careful about pursuing them.
Selfish India
India doesn’t seem to care much about the floods wrecking havoc in neighboring Pakistan. It has every right not to.
A Chance for US to Build Trust in Pakistan
Pakistan cannot catch a break. As if daily killings from sectarian and terrorist groups were not enough to inflict mass casualties on innocent Pakistanis, tremendous rains have caused huge floods that continue to plague the country’s western frontier (that’s right, the same border where the Pakistani military and American drones are hammering extremist strongholds). Pakistani officials […]
Pakistan’s Hopeless Predicament
Pakistan is pivotal to America’s strategy in South Asia but it has little reason to continue to act as an ally.
South Asia’s Fragile Nuclear Balance
The paradigm shaping foreign policy in Washington DC today reads that the futures of Afghanistan and Pakistan are inherently intertwined. The war in the one cannot be resolved as long as insurgents are able to find safe haven in the other while regional stability demands peace across borders. Yet in Pakistan the Americans have to […]