An Open Letter to President Obama About Afghanistan From William R. Polk
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
I was an early supporter of yours. So I hope you will accept the following analysis and proposals as being from a friend as well as a person with cons...
Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh of India could not have chosen the time and place better for sending the very public message to Pakistan. On Thursda...
BBC NEWS | Altaf Hussain | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say. Two other militants escaped, one of them ba...
Leon T. Hadar | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
The ghosts of the Vietnam War seem to be hanging around the White House Situation Room as President Obama and his national security aides debate a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
I have seen what is antiseptically known as collateral damage from this war in two unlikely places: the city of Paris and the countryside of rural Punjab.
Telegraph | Dean Nelson | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
Rukhsana Kausar, 21, was with her parents and brother in Jammu and Kashmir when three gunmen, believed to be Pakistani militants, forced their way in ...
Arundhati Roy | Posted 09.28.2009 | World
What happens now that democracy and the free market have fused into a single predatory organism with a thin, constricted imagination that revolves almost entirely around the idea of maximizing profit?
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
America, you are part of us and we are a part of you. The actions of a violent minority have for too long trumped the selfless and righteous actions of the moderate majority who do good in the name of Islam.
Madhavi Bhasin | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
Pakistan's Empowerment and Self-Governance Ordinance falls short of local demands and provides only a change in nomenclature rather than genuine political reform.
Saad Khan | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
India is not a threat to Pakistan, Islamic militancy is. If Pakistan's leaders are still not able to overcome their 'infatuation' with India, then it could prove disastrous for regional stability.
The Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2009 | World
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Huffington Post | Posted 07.31.2009 | World
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AP | MUNEEZA NAQVI | Posted 07.10.2009 | World
NEW DELHI — Security forces opened fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir on Monday, wounding at least seven people, including two critically, in ...
Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.
Arvin Bahl | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
The problem in South Asia is not Indian intransigence, as the New York Times editorial board seems to think, but the policies espoused by Pakistan's military establishment.
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
The 60-year dispute over Kashmir is one of the most neglected conflicts in the world, and the perspectives of the very people living there are often marginalized by saber-rattling politics between India and Pakistan,
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.11.2009 | World
If Pakistan and India could declare peace and accept a line through the region as their final national boundaries, it could pay off huge dividends in the fight against terrorists.
Robert Naiman | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
What price, exactly, would we pay for pressing India for compromise that would be more expensive than the lives of US troops and the lives of Afghan and Pakistani civilians?
Murray Fromson | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
Resolution of the Golan Heights problem could lead to a settlement of other thorny issues that are part of the Middle East process.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
For years, George W. Bush has been roundly criticized, even lampooned, for declaring "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. But maybe declaring "Mission Accomplished" was not that crazy after all.
Robert Naiman | Posted 04.26.2009 | World
It matters little in the big scheme of things how many new troops President Obama announces. If there is no real change in policy, new troops won't accomplish anything.
BBC NEWS | Posted 04.25.2009 | World
The Indian army says 17 militants have been killed in a five-day-long gun battle with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir....
Mohsin Mohi-Ud Din | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
Like the conflicts in Afghanistan and Palestine, the Kashmir conflict is one that is talked about in hundreds of thousands of mosques -- not jut in the region, but throughout the world.
Sunil Adam | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
The Obama administration seems oblivious of the only option it has to solve the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan without broadening the crisis -- involving China in the conflict resolution strategy.
AP | AIJAZ HUSSAIN | Posted 01.24.2009 | World
SRINAGAR, India — Hundreds of protesters chanting pro-independence slogans clashed with soldiers in the main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir o...
The Nation | Posted 11.11.2009 | World