Curb Your Enthusiasm for an Israel-Pakistan Peace Agreement
While Pakistan has good reasons to normalize relations with Israel, domestic and geopolitical compulsions stand in the way.
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
Bring Asia Bibi to America
She lives in an unfree and intolerant nation, and her life is in imminent danger.
Op-eds
Iran and Pakistan, A Cold Peace That Could Get Hot
Just how long Pakistan’s neutrality in Yemen conflict will last depends on two factors.
Op-eds
Learning From the Soviets: How to Withdraw From Afghanistan
The New York Times bungles history in predicting the upcoming departure of U.S. troops.
Op-eds
Will Yousaf Raza Gilani change Pakistan?
Perhaps the most notable aspect of Yousaf Raza Gilani's conduct upon his ascension as Pakistan's new prime minister has been his lack of apparent vitriol toward President Pervez Musharr...
Op-eds
Whither Jihad?
Will Osama bin Laden’s demise advance the evanescence of jihadism in the Islamic world? Probably, but not by much. Islamic extremism was intellectually in full bloom long before bin L...
Op-eds
‘Foreign Fighter’ Cell Leader Captured in Central Afghanistan
Afghan and Coalition forces captured the leader of "a cell of approximately 50 foreign fighters" during a raid in central Afghanistan yesterday. The commander, who was not identified, wa...
Op-eds
Pashtuns and Pakistanis
The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop...
Op-eds
Fixing Our Pakistan Problem
This article was published in The Journal of International Security Affairs (No. 16, Spring 2009)....
Op-eds
Will Yousaf Raza Gilani change Pakistan?
Perhaps the most notable aspect of Yousaf Raza Gilani's conduct upon his ascension as Pakistan's new prime minister has been his lack of apparent vitriol toward President Pervez Musharraf.
Op-eds
A Saudi Glasnost?
By Andrew Apostolou Saudi Arabia's rulers are now paying lip-service to supporting an experiment with a Gorbachev-like program of Perestroika and Glasnost. But are they serious? If...