Pakistan Embraces Multipolarity—and That Might Be Good for America
Pakistan’s move toward diversification in a post–American world order is reflected in its military hardware acquisitions and in its diplomatic ties. Arif Rafiq Over the past two years, Indian and pro-Indian More...
The Legal Justifications Obama Used To Kill Osama Bin Laden
President Barack Obama left the legal rationale behind the killing of Osama Bin Laden to four lawyers who had to work in secret in the weeks leading up to the mission. The New York Times published an excerpt Wednesday More...
On Seymour Hersh’s theory
By Jahanzeb Hussain American journalist Seymour Hersh, whose reporting of the 1969 My Lai massacre in Vietnam made him a legend, created some buzz with his latest story in the London Review of Books about the U.S. More...
Pakistan: The Next Colombia Success Story?
By Daniel Runde Pakistan has the potential to be a global turnaround story. I recently spent time in-country listening to a wide range of perspectives and I am convinced that U.S. policymakers and business leaders More...
David Hale nominated by Obama as ambassador to Pakistan
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated veteran diplomat David Hale as ambassador to Pakistan. Hale, currently ambassador to Lebanon, has previously served as the top U.S. diplomat in Jordan and was special More...
Pakistan’s War On Terror – ‘Good’ Versus ‘Bad’ Taliban
By Donald Kirk The danger of the fighting in Afghanistan spilling across the mountainous western borders of Pakistan confronts a society that’s also in a perpetual standoff with India and roiled by simmering discontent More...
The Taliban – A CFR Info Guide Presentation
The Taliban has outlasted the world’s most potent military forces and its two main factions now challenge the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan. As U.S. troops draw down, the next phase of conflict will More...
John Kerry Visit: Implications on Pak-US Bilateral Relations
By Zaheerul Hassan Pakistan PM has presided high level military-civil meeting in connection with John Kerry visit who arrived in Islamabad on 31 July 2013. US Sectary of State John Kerry has arrived in Pakistan More...
US will be trapped in its own drown game
By James Zogby Earlier this week, a US Senate subcommittee held hearings on the use of drones. Most of those who testified were constitutional law professors or terrorism experts. In what was an emotional high-point More...
Inside America’s most dysfunctional relationship
By Samuel Burke & Ken Olshansky Before the raid on the Abbottabad complex where Osama bin Laden lived and died, then U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan, Cameron Munter’s main concern was for the American community More...