Inside a Pakistani Flood Victim Camp—Run by a Terrorist Organization
The tight cluster of canvas tents filled a dusty field just off the highway that cuts through the city of Nowshera, the largest city in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, about a 90-minute drive...
View ArticleWhat to expect from Obama’s visit
The visit of the head of state of the sole, though somewhat depleted, superpower provides us a timely opportunity to apprise our guest of our assessment of the strategic environment surrounding us and...
View ArticlePakistan divides U.S. and India
“Obama Mission: Billions to Pakistan, Billions From India” — This screaming headline in the Times of India ahead of President Obama’s visit to New Delhi explains why a quiet crisis is developing in...
View ArticleThe U.S.-Pakistan Relationship: Toward a Complementary Strategy
Pakistan is a vital part of U.S. strategy in the Middle East and South Asia. U.S. objectives, including counter-terrorism, access to oil, regional political stability, nuclear non-proliferation,...
View ArticleStrategic Security Brief: The Uncertain Future of US Aid to Pakistan
As tensions between Pakistan and the US continue to fester, and as the US itself teeters on the verge of bankruptcy due to its staggering debt crisis, the future of the US aid program to its estranged...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Pakistani floods
One day in mid-April, Dr. Bernard Rieux spotted a dead rat in the building he lived in the Mediterranean city of Oran, Algeria. Thousands of rats staggered out of their hideouts in the following days...
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