The center is the Pak Army, and the central question today is whether the Army, the steel frame of Pakistani society, can hold the line against the rising tide of Islamist radicalism.
Refugees International | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
By: Patrick Duplat, Advocate "When they realize you're a Mehsud, they treat you like a suicide bomber who's wearing an explosive jacket." -- A displ...
nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 10.29.2009 | World
WASHINGTON - Even as the Pakistani government plays down the American role in its military operations in Taliban-controlled areas along the border wit...
Maria Tirmizi | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Panic-stricken text messages are making the rounds, warning friends and family against possible future target areas.
AP | ASIF SHAHZAD | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan pressed an offensive deeper into Taliban territory along the Afghan border Tuesday, claiming to have killed 42 militants in...
AP | ISHTIAQ MAHSUD and NAHAL TOOSI | Posted 10.18.2009 | World
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — Pakistani soldiers attacked militant bases in the main al-Qaida and Taliban stronghold along the Afghan border Satu...
npr.org | Jackie Northam | Posted 10.07.2009 | World
The debate on Afghanistan has riveted Congress, the Pentagon and policy-watchers as the Obama administration reviews its current strategy. Following a...
Saad Khan | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
If the US wants to gain a positive feeling among common Pakistanis, it has to ensure direct aid to the masses instead of spending taxpayer money on corrupt government agencies.
Saad Khan | Posted 09.22.2009 | World
Pakistan is one of those unfortunate countries where the elite classes have virtually taken over every aspect of life and have left no breathing space for the public.
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.17.2009 | World
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Government forces destroyed four militant bases and killed 40 insurgents Tuesday in a new offensive near Pakistan's famed K...
AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide ...
Dale Buscher | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.
GlobalPost | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
By Nasir Khan and Ayesha Nasir | Global Post ISLAMABAD -- When Zebunisa Jillani visits the camps established for Swat refugees in Islamabad, her f...
AP | RYAN LUCAS | Posted 08.01.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — More than 80 percent of Pakistanis view the Taliban and al-Qaida as a critical threat to the country, an opinion poll released Wedne...
UNFPA | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
By Bill Ryan SWABI, Pakistan - Tajbibi was so weak by the time she got to the maternity clinic that the 19-year-old mother "fainted every time she ha...
nytimes.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | World
Pakistan is experiencing its worst refugee crisis since partition from India in 1947, and while the world may be familiar with the tent camps that hav...
Nosheen Abbas | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
"I really wouldn't give the government any money for the displaced people from the north....you just don't know where it goes" says Muneeba a young so...
AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 06.20.2009 | World
ISLAMABAD — Pakistani forces killed 80 militants and drove the Taliban from a major urban stronghold on Wednesday, the army said, as U.S. milita...
Eric Margolis | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Pakistan's armed forces, who are being paid by the US to fight Pashtun tribes, have scored a brilliant victory against their own people.
Posted 06.14.2009 | World
By Andrew Buncombe and Omar Waraich | The Independent Pakistani authorities have ordered a fresh crackdown on a banned charity linked to militants b...
AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
MARDAN, Pakistan — Members of a charity banned for its alleged links to the Mumbai terror attack have resurfaced in northwestern Pakistan under ...
New York Times | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
The United States military for the first time has provided Pakistan with a broad array of surveillance information collected by American drones flying...
Financial Times | Posted 06.13.2009 | World
Pakistan's fight against the Taliban has a limited chance of success because of the army's inexperience and its refusal to accept help from the west, ...
FT | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
The absence of Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari from his country at a time when military operations against the Taliban have triggered the bigges...
CQ | Posted 06.12.2009 | World
A retired Pakistani general confided a deep worry to a friend in Washington last week: that some young officers in Pakistan's regular army have become...
Dr. Charles G. Cogan | Posted 11.04.2009 | World