Pakistan

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  • The powder keg

    The U.S. helped build the Islamic fundamentalist movement threatening to take over Pakistan. Now can it rescue the world from the deadly consequences?
  • "I'm not sure which planet they live on"

    Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
  • On a secret Taliban trail into Afghanistan

    Walking the narrow goat trails of Kunar Province, Taliban and al-Qaida fighters can travel with their weapons to and from Pakistan. But which way are they headed?
  • U.S. airstrike near Asadabad

    In an Afghan province known for its hostility to the West, the U.S. is hunting for a fierce Islamic military leader.
  • Tribal Area dance

    Getting into Pakistan's autonomous region isn't so easy, but once you're there you can't go far without stumbling on the jihadis.
  • A land of guns and whispers

    Pakistan sweeps its tribal areas for criminals, riling its population and fueling rumors that Taliban fighters are nearby.
  • In India, a maddening calm

    Far from her homeland and tormented by the threat of war, a California woman wonders how her family can remain sanguine in the nuclear shadow.
  • An uneasy alliance

    India is one of the world's largest and most powerful democracies, but as Bush administration envoys arrive in South Asia hoping to prevent war, Indian officials wonder why Pakistan seems to be the premier U.S. ally.
  • The India-Pakistan doomsday scenario

    U.S. intelligence says a nuclear exchange between the two feuding countries could kill 12 million. Here's how experts believe the region could explode.
  • Stuck outside of Kabul ... with the nuclear blues again

    Musharraf is afraid of losing a war, while Vajpayee is afraid of losing an election. It's hideous politics that makes rational people like me want to drink too many gin and tonics.
  • One thing India and Pakistan can agree on

    A Kashmir independence fighter makes enemies on both sides as he dreams of a free and secular state and tries to stay out of prison.
  • The Afghan handshake

    Nearly a decade ago in Peshawar, a holy warrior tried to warn me where radical Islam was heading -- then gave me his watch.
  • Anthrax? Big deal

    While a quaking American media blathers obsessively about being on the front lines of bioterrorism, a Pakistani newsroom goes calmly about its business after its own spore scare.
  • Unholy war

    Bush says he won't stop bombing during Ramadan. But the tactic could blow up in our faces.
  • The Taliban's ladies auxiliary

    A revival of conservative Islam among educated Pakistani women has many doing whatever they can to support the war against America.
  • Peshawar protests peacefully

    Friday, the Muslim holy day, is also a day of testing for Pakistan's Musharraf.
  • "Now, jihad has begun"

    From the living room of a close friend and advisor to Osama bin Laden, Sunday's attack seems like just the beginning of a much greater battle.
  • All quiet in Islamabad, for now

    As the bombs fall, even protesters in Rawalpindi are outnumbered by riot police, but the crowds will grow as the day goes on.
  • The unwanted

    Hundreds of thousands of Afghans already live in squalid Pakistani refugee camps, where freshly made coffins lie outside carpenters' workshops. Can the world handle a million more?
  • Preparing for the worst

    As war looms over Afghanistan, relief agencies are racing to stave off mass starvation -- inside and outside the ravaged country.
  • Anger in the bazaars of Peshawar

    The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here.
  • Shields up!

    A missile defense system couldn't have stopped the terrorist attacks, but so what? Star Wars is suddenly more popular than ever.
  • Is Om Puri our greatest living actor?

    A wide-ranging chat with the Indian screen superstar.
  • "Moth Smoke" by Mohsin Hamid

    A darkly seductive debut novel evokes the anxieties of urban life in Pakistan.
  • The bald facts

    An informal survey of toupees, transplants, weaves and dye-jobs reveals that 10 percent to 22 percent of United States senators are engaged in a coverup.
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