Pakistan

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Conflict within Waziristan is a reminder that not all Pashtuns are extremists
  • Obama's foreign policy report card

    You'd never know it from the MSM, but he deserves high grades for his work so far in Iran, Iraq and Pakistan
  • Pakistan's security is hanging in the balance

    Pakistan's military offensive has become a rallying point for Muslim radicals. Volunteers pour in to fight the army
  • "It is pointless to talk to al-Qaida"

    Joseph Nye talks about Obama's use of hard and soft power in Afghanistan, and what he learned from Henry Kissinger
  • They're Obama's wars now

    George W. Bush may have started the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it's up to the new president to resolve them.
  • "Nuclear weapons are not Kalashnikovs"

    Prior to his meeting with Obama, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari discusses his country's nuclear arsenal, failed peace talks with the Taliban and the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden.
  • The White House's full-court press on Afghanistan and Pakistan

    Leaders from both countries, vital to the administration's counter-terror strategy, came to Washington for a series of meetings Wednesday.
  • The leader of the Pakistani Taliban vows to strike America

    Rival Islamic militant groups are joining forces to make Pakistan into a stronghold -- and are receiving support from Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency.
  • Globalization, three cups of tea at a time

    Greg Mortenson has devoted his life to building schools in Central Asia -- with a little help along the way from a Pakistani in a Berkeley copy shop.
  • Obama's domino theory

    The president sounds like he's channeling Cheney or McCain -- or a Cold War hawk afraid of international communism -- when he talks about the war in Afghanistan.
  • You can't go home (to Yemen) again

    What will Obama do with Guantanamo's single largest group of detainees? One hundred Yemenis wait to go home -- but those who've already returned to Yemen didn't find a warm welcome.
  • Obama's new way forward in Pakistan and Afghanistan

    An administration white paper argues that the core goal of the U.S. must be to uproot al-Qaida from its safe havens in Pakistan.
  • Bowing down to the Taliban

    Pakistan is capitulating to the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the Islamists plan to introduce Sharia law.
  • Obama's Vietnam?

    Friday's airstrikes are evidence Obama will take the hard line he promised in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But he should remember what happened to another president who inherited a war.
  • Failure in Afghanistan, catastrophe in Pakistan

    William Dalrymple's review of Ahmed Rashid's "Descent into Chaos" tells a tale of neocon-concocted utter disaster
  • Obama's Afghan headache

    An epidemic of kidnapping adds to the downward spiral of violence the president-elect's team will soon confront in Afghanistan.
  • Does Obama understand his biggest foreign-policy challenge?

    The president-elect wants to work with the Pakistani government to "stamp out" terror. It's not nearly that simple.
  • Finding peace on the road to Mecca

    Islamic pilgrims are gathering in Saudi Arabia this week -- and making the world a better place.
  • Why Obama should end the "war on terror"

    Bush's infantile response to 9/11 has harmed our national interests for too long. It's time to declare it dead.
  • Should Obama chase Osama?

    On Sunday the president-elect told "60 Minutes" he wants to capture or kill bin Laden. Is he setting himself up for failure?
  • So is Palin "naive" on Pakistan?

    The position Sarah Palin took in her first interview on American intervention in Pakistan sounds remarkably like Barack Obama's, which John McCain has repeatedly attacked.
  • Why this lifelong Republican may vote for Obama

    The party of Bush and McCain outsourced the hunt for bin Laden, failing to accomplish a vital mission since 9/11.
  • When marrying for love gets you buried alive

    A request for tribal leaders of the world: Could you stop with the honor killings?
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