Michael Kugelman

Last Sunday, after Pakistan's government briefly blocked access to Twitter, the outcry in the country was instantaneous.

Ironically, most of this outrage was expressed on Twitter itself. Users in Pakistan promptly discovered alternate means of accessing the micro-blogging site, created the hashtag #TwitterBan, and angrily tweeted away.

As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the May 2, 2011, assault on Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad abode, there has been much talk about the various components of the U.S. counterterrorism toolbox. Few have received more attention than the drone.

On April 30, for the first time, the Obama...

Not long ago, an unemployed young father decided he could no longer bear to live in poverty. With people watching in horror, he set himself on fire, and succumbed to his burns just hours later.

The man's name was not Mohamed Bouazizi, the jobless Tunisian fruit vendor whose self-immolation would...

The most troubling news to emerge from Pakistan in recent days has little to do with militancy or other headline-grabbing scourges that afflict the country. Rather, it relates to a new Oxfam report's finding that more than a third of the country's population -- about 60 million people...

Last Wednesday's presidential address made clear that all U.S. troops "surged" into Afghanistan in 2009 will be withdrawn by next summer. Yet President Obama was equally clear about something else: Pakistan must crack down more forcefully on extremism within its borders.

"So long as...

Even now, more than a week later, the story is still so surreal. For many, it is literally unbelievable.

The world's most notorious fugitive was not being harbored in the wilds of Waziristan. He was living in a lovely home in one of Pakistan's most secure cities -- and under...