Pakistan
Pakistan generals profit from mayhem, communists say
February 3, 2012In a recent analysis, the Communist Party of Pakistan says the Obama administration is interested in working out a political settlement in Afghanistan "in order to cut down its colossal expenditures there."
Read morePakistan: anatomy of a crisis
December 5, 2011The question being asked is whether the assault was a "fog of war" incident or a calculated hit.
Read moreCIA use of immunization program has troubling history
August 8, 2011In search of Bin Laden the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency offered immunization shots against Hepatitis B to the poor people of Abbottabad, in Pakistan, as a CIA front program.
Read moreAfghanistan: anatomy of a hit
July 28, 2011The assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai in Kandahar is one of those moments when the long and bloody Afghanistan war comes into focus.
Read moreBin Laden, Pakistan and the Great Game’s new clothes
May 10, 2011This is, after all, the ground over which the 19th century "Great Game" was played, the essence of which was obfuscation. What you thought you saw or knew was not necessarily what was.
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