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The U.S. helped build the Islamic fundamentalist movement threatening to take over Pakistan. Now can it rescue the world from the deadly consequences?
By Michelle Goldberg
November 5, 2002
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Hawks in the Bush administration may be making deadly miscalculations on Iraq, says Gen. Anthony Zinni, Bush's Middle East envoy.
By Eric Boehlert
October 17, 2002
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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?
By Phillip Robertson
September 19, 2002
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In an Afghan province known for its hostility to the West, the U.S. is hunting for a fierce Islamic military leader.
By Phillip Robertson
September 6, 2002
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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.
By Phillip Robertson
September 5, 2002
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Pakistan sweeps its tribal areas for criminals, riling its population and fueling rumors that Taliban fighters are nearby.
By Phillip Robertson
August 29, 2002
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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.
By Rashmi Sinha
June 7, 2002
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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.
By Michelle Goldberg
June 5, 2002
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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.
By Damien Cave
May 31, 2002
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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.
By Phillip Robertson
January 17, 2002
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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.
By Phillip Robertson
January 15, 2002
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Nearly a decade ago in Peshawar, a holy warrior tried to warn me where radical Islam was heading -- then gave me his watch.
By Dalton Conley
November 21, 2001
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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.
By Asra Q. Nomani
November 6, 2001
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Bush says he won't stop bombing during Ramadan. But the tactic could blow up in our faces.
By Eric Boehlert
November 5, 2001
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A revival of conservative Islam among educated Pakistani women has many doing whatever they can to support the war against America.
By Asra Q. Nomani
October 25, 2001
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Friday, the Muslim holy day, is also a day of testing for Pakistan's Musharraf.
By Sean Kenny
October 13, 2001
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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.
By Asra Q. Nomani
October 8, 2001
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As the bombs fall, even protesters in Rawalpindi are outnumbered by riot police, but the crowds will grow as the day goes on.
By Sean Kenny
October 7, 2001
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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?
By Sean Kenny
October 5, 2001
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As war looms over Afghanistan, relief agencies are racing to stave off mass starvation -- inside and outside the ravaged country.
By Anthony York
October 5, 2001
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The Taliban has strong support in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan. If there is civil war, it will start here.
By Sean Kenny
September 22, 2001
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A missile defense system couldn't have stopped the terrorist attacks, but so what? Star Wars is suddenly more popular than ever.
By Damien Cave
September 19, 2001
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A wide-ranging chat with the Indian screen superstar.
By Michael Sragow
April 6, 2000
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A darkly seductive debut novel evokes the anxieties of urban life in Pakistan.
By Sudip Bose
January 6, 2000
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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.
By John F. Murphy
November 22, 1999