Pakistan’s push to host US–Iran peace talks is being shaped as much by urgency as by opportunity. Islamabad is growing increasingly wary that its defence pact with Saudi Arabia could pull it deeper ...

AS CONCERN BUILDS within Washington’s political, military, and intelligence circles over the rise of the Taliban and al Qaeda in northwestern Pakistan, the search for a proper policy to deal with the ...

The recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan are not isolated security incidents. They represent a more profound change in the character and scope of violence that the state has been facing. Suicide ...

With a female population of approximately 126m, the continued exclusion of half the population from productive activity is both ...

Things are pretty calm in India. Its recent election of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh means that the world’s largest democracy will once again be led by a seasoned economist. And it all happened ...

Pakistan’s recurring struggles against India are not rooted in nerves or talent but in a persistent lack of role clarity.

This is as much a problem of psychology as policy. Few nations are as paranoid as Pakistan–where it is a widespread belief that India is behind every setback, that the United States plans to seize ...