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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.02.2009 | World


Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

Conflicting Reports on Pakistan and Quality Reporting

Matthew Palevsky | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


Matthew Palevsky

Thanks to over a hundred Eyes & Ears investigators who signed up through News Trust, we have highlighted some great journalism on the situation in Pakistan.

Amidst Conflict, Pakistanis Persevere

Susan Davis | Posted 08.02.2009 | World


Susan Davis

The impoverished North-West Frontier Province lays claim to devastating maternal and child mortality rates, and scant education for girls. But courageous women here are increasingly agents of change.

Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 07.13.2009 | World


Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs : What the Lebanese Election Results Mean Facts: Saad Hariri, the son of assassinated Prime Minister Rafiq H...

Pakistani Refugees Reach 1.3 Million In Northwest

AP | NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 06.12.2009 | World


MARDAN, Pakistan — Helicopters dropped Pakistani commandos into a Taliban stronghold in the Swat Valley on Tuesday, pressing ahead with an offen...

More Military Aid to Pakistan? Think Again...

Derek Flood | Posted 05.05.2009 | World


Derek Flood

The United States must stop looking at the short term in Pakistan, as insurgencies are not a short term problem.