Kerry Lugar Bill & FoDP

Much to the dismay of the government's detractors and contrary to the vilification campaign going on in the country against the leadership, the US Senate voted on Thursday to triple non-military aid to Pakistan to roughly 1.5 billion dollars per year...

With the world riveted to events in South Asia -- from the military and political developments in Afghanistan, to the growing success by Pakistan against the extremist insurgency within its own borders -- it would do us all well to remember that behind the headlines, there is definite progress being...

Most media coverage in the United States about Pakistan's recent political events gives the impression that the democratically elected liberal government has somehow been weakened by the outcome. According to this narrative, the conservative and Islamist opposition mobilized street protests and forced an unwilling President to restore the Chief Justice...

Winston Churchill is famously quoted as saying that Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried. Those in Pakistan who would attempt to destabilize and disrupt the democratic system by rioting and burning tires in the streets of Punjab in reaction to...

The United States is riveted on its upcoming November election. But in Pakistan, all eyes are on Saturday, September 6th when the Parliamentarians of Pakistan will select a democratically elected President to succeed a decade of military dictatorship, and generations of manipulation by supporters of authoritarians who do not easily...