Eye of the Storm for US-Pakistan Relations
Following one of the worst periods in the history of the relationship between the United States and Pakistan, several encouraging developments have taken place in recent months. Unfortunately, we are...
View ArticleReviewing Pakistan’s Peace Deals with the Taliban
By the end of 2014, normal U.S. combat forces are scheduled to withdraw from Afghanistan. As this departure date approaches, Afghanistan and its U.S.-led allies continue to explore potential peace...
View ArticleIs Pakistan’s Paranoia Pushing it Into a Nuclear War with India?
The possibility of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India grows every day. If the Pakistanis do not bring under control the terrorist groups in the country and resolve the conflicts with India, it is...
View ArticleWhy Should Distributing the Polio Vaccine in Pakistan lead to Death?
The huge rise in militancy across Pakistan (pdf) is also creating a number of hazards for aid workers. On New Year’s Day gunmen on motorbikes ambushed and killed six female aid workers and a doctor in...
View ArticleResilient Pakistan?
ISLAMABAD – Since mid-December, Pakistan has experienced political and economic volatility that is extraordinary even by Pakistani standards. The fragile political structure that began to be erected...
View ArticlePakistan’s Political Renaissance
LAHORE – Pakistani institutions are evolving rapidly. With executive authority increasingly in the hands of elected representatives, rather than dispersed among various competing institutions, the...
View ArticleIndia: Jostling for Geopolitical Control in Afghanistan
Editor’s note: This article was originally published by openSecurity on 27 March 2014. There is increasing anxiety among stakeholders as US forces prepare for a drawdown in Afghanistan by the end of...
View ArticlePakistan’s IDP Crisis
Pakistan’s armed forces recently launched another major offensive against foreign and local Islamist militants based in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Operation Zarb-e-Azb represents a...
View ArticlePolitical Turmoil and the Pakistani Army – What’s next?
This article was originally published as Why Pakistan’s Army Stands to Gain From Political Turmoil by the East Asia Forum on 18 September, 2014. The political turmoil in Pakistan is approaching a...
View ArticleDrone Strikes in Pakistan: Laser or Blunderbuss?
This article was originally published by OpenDemocracy on 16 October, 2014. As the number of US drone strikes in Pakistan hits 400, following an 11 October attack in the Khyber region, research by the...
View ArticleTensions Rise Between India And Pakistan
This article was originally published by openDemocracy on 10 January 2015. International constraint and mutual nuclear deterrence may have prevented all-out war with Pakistan in the past over contested...
View ArticleThe Case for Better Aid to Pakistan: Climate, Health, Demographic Challenges...
This article was originally published on 2 March 2015 by New Security Beat, the blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program (ECSP) at the Wilson Center. In 2009, the U.S. Congress passed a...
View Article‘You Have to Neutralise Terrorists through Terrorists’: Is There a Method to...
This article was originally published by Strife on 2 June 2015. While attending a function in New Delhi On May 21st, India’s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said ‘You have to neutralise terrorists...
View ArticleAfter Zarb-e-Azb: Now What?
This article was originally published by the Stimson Center on 14 August, 2015. Pakistan’s ongoing military operation in North Waziristan, a stronghold of Al Qai’da and Islamist militants, is nearing...
View ArticlePolio Wars: Conspiracy and Democracy in Pakistan
This article was originally published by OpenDemocracy on 18 September, 2015. Between December 2012 and early 2015, 78 people were murdered and dozens of others injured because they tried to administer...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia and Pakistan’s Evolving Alliance
This article was originally published by The National Interest on November 19, 2015. In early November, Pakistan’s chief of army staff, General Raheel Sharif, made an important visit to Saudi Arabia....
View ArticleChina-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Towards a New ‘Heartland’?
This article was originally published by the LSE South Asia Centre on 16 November 2015. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), first announced during Xi Jinping’s state visit to Pakistan in April...
View ArticleRekindled Sino-Indian Tensions Roil Geopolitics in Asia
This article was originally published by YaleGlobal Online on 12 January 2017. Chinese-Indian relations are deteriorating, worsening the security environment in Asia. “New Delhi may have decided to...
View ArticleAmbling Blindly Back into the Mountains: 5 Hard Questions for the Next Phase...
This article was originally published by War on the Rocks on 23 February 2017. Gen. John Nicholson, who commands the American-led international military force in Afghanistan, recently made headlines...
View ArticleEnding Terror in Kashmir
This article was originally published by Political Violence @ a Glance on 22 February 2019. Why—on February 14th— did a 20-year-old Kashmiri villager blow himself up, taking with him the lives of 46...
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