Why Mrs. Bhutto Had to Die
Former Pakistani Prime Minster Benazir Bhutto was murdered because of herpotential actions in Pakistan, by the combined forces of jihadism in that country. In short, they executed her to pre-empt...
Pervez Musharraf
State of Denial
Musharraf's latest move has transformed him into a liability.
Op-eds
While Pakistan Burns
Al Qaeda regroups in the tribal areas, the government falters. What is to be done?
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
Shattered Hopes
As Pakistan's parliamentary elections approach, the PPP's future is uncertain.
Op-eds
Symbolism and Realpolitik
Amid the complex dynamics of the Horn of Africa, the most significant national interest at stake for the United States is preventing Al-Qaeda (or any other like-minded international terrori...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda’s Resurgence
FOUR YEARS AGO, HIS WORDS WOULD have represented an almost unquestioned consensus view. In late January, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, Dell Dailey, described al Qaeda&...
Op-eds
Reasonable Suspicion
In reality, however, the answer to Musharraf’s question was not so straightforward. Whether motivated by an American threat or the billions of dollars it received in U.S. aid, Pakista...
Op-eds
Obama’s Reasonable Suspicion of Pakistan
In an interview with President Obama on Sunday night’s 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft asked: Right now, it certainly...the location of the compound just raises all sorts of question...
Op-eds
Fear the Muslim Brotherhood
At the Daily Beast, Bruce Riedel has posted an essay called “Don’t fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” the classic, conventional-wisdom response to the crisis in Egypt. The...
Op-eds
Should the CIA Turn Against Pakistan’s Spies?
The recent chief-of-station (COS) cover-shredding brouhaha between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate marks an ironic and pos...
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US Treasury Sanctions Pakistani Taliban, Top Two Leaders
The US Treasury Department has targeted three senior leaders of the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Lashkar-e-Taiba by designating them as global terrorists. The two terror groups receive...
Op-eds
What the Wikileaks Tell Us About Pakistani Loyalties
Leslie Gelb, the former head of the Council on Foreign Relations and a current columnist for the Daily Beast, looked at the 90,000 USG document dump on WikiLeaks, and focused on the issue that ma...
Op-eds
Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
At Commentary’s Contentions blog, Jen Rubin points out that President Barack Obama did not identify who killed Daniel Pearl at a signing ceremony for a bill that bears Pearl’s name &n...
Op-eds
Top al Qaeda leader linked to 5 Americans on trial in Pakistan
Pakistani prosecutors claim that five Americans currently on trial for attempting to join al Qaeda were in contact with a top leader of the terror group. The five Americans are said to h...
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
American Interests in Pakistan
Zardari serves them better than Sharif.
Op-eds
The Return of Weakness
President Obama means well. Iran doesn't.
Op-eds
Jihadi Penetration of Pakistan’s Armed Forces is at the Centre of All Concerns in Any New Strategy’
The deal between the Pakistan government and pro-Taliban forces in the Swat valley is an ominous portent of Pakistan's slide into jihadism, with strategic implications for India and other co...