Pakistan is a Major non-NATO ally of the United States and an essential country for reducing terrorist threats from South Asia.
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Containing the global terrorist threat in South Asia will depend largely on the ability of the United States to forge a trusting and cooperative partnership with Pakistan over the next several years. Read More.
The title of Ken Ballen's recently released book, Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals, is misleading. I put off buying it for some time because of the title, which implied it would provide a sympathetic view of terrorism and constitute yet another rant against "failed" U.S. counterterrorism… Read more
Abstract: After the U.S. raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan in May 2011, Pakistani political leaders played up their country’s relations with China, touting Beijing as an alternative partner to Washington. But China’s concerns over Pakistan’s future stability will likely limit the… Read more
The Obama Administration has been banking on Pakistani cooperation with its strategy to start a political reconciliation process inside Afghanistan as it withdraws U.S troops from the battlefield and shifts responsibility for security operations to the Afghan forces. Pakistani leaders have demonstrated little interest in assisting the U.S.… Read more
Lisa Curtis comments on Pakistan and Afghanistan. … Read more
Pakistan is neither an ally nor an enemy of the United States. Both countries have a long track record of partnering on important strategic goals, such as when Pakistan helped counter communist expansion in the 1950s and 1960s, helped facilitate the Sino-U.S. entente in the early 1970s, and cooperated with… Read more
The Main Obstacle to Progress in Afghanistan Is Pakistan Pakistan Proxies Conducting Brazen Attacks… Read more
It’s time to draw the line with Pakistan, whose intelligence service is reportedly colluding with the insurgent Haqqani network, an al Qaeda ally that’s been on the rampage against us in Afghanistan. In testimony last week, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen dropped… Read more
Peter Brookes discusses US relations with Pakistan. … Read more
Credible U.S. press reports yesterday revealed that cell phones found on the attackers in the September 13 attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul were linked to Pakistani intelligence officials. The U.S. has long known that Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), works closely with the Haqqani… Read more
Abstract: In June 2011, President Barack Obama released a new National Strategy for Counterterrorism. This document profoundly misreads the nature of the global transnational threat. Following this strategy for a few years will result in a resurgent threat as dangerous as that shortly after… Read more
Cutting off all U.S. aid to Pakistan would spell disaster for U.S. interests in the region. But sticking with the status quo -- providing generous assistance to a country with an increasingly defiant posture toward the U.S. -- also makes little sense. The Obama administration’s announcement… Read more
The global financial crisis has had a major impact on perceptions of American power and its relationships in Asia. Many of the perceptions are not founded on facts. Among the facts often overlooked: American companies invest far more abroad than does… Read more
Abstract: The U.S. faces difficult and ongoing challenges in Afghanistan. There have been setbacks, delays, and stumbling blocks in the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban, but now is not the time to begin large-scale troop withdrawals or to cut civilian aid programs. By… Read more
Delivered Before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia and the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 27, 2007 The potential for the intersection of terrorism and nuclear weapons is arguably the greatest threat to American national, even global,… Read more
New information has revealed contacts between members of Pakistani terrorist group Harakat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) and Osama bin Laden’s courier. These revelations show that Pakistan’s segmented approach to terrorism contributed to bin Laden’s ability to live undetected in a military town deep inside Pakistan. Pakistan has long sought to… Read more
Last month, Kazakhstan’s Parliament approved the sending of troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban immediately issued a threat, warning Kazakhstan that its willingness to participate in the war on terrorism would make the country a target for violence. Days later, Kazakh security services’ headquarters in the northwestern city of Aktobe and… Read more
The U.S. unilateral operation to track and kill Osama bin Laden deep inside Pakistan has raised several questions about the sustainability of the U.S.–Pakistan partnership in the fight against global terrorism. Relations between Islamabad and Washington were already strained, and the bin Laden operation has deepened the rift. It laid… Read more
The White House review on Afghanistan released Thursday demonstrates that the 30,000 additional U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan this year are beginning to make a difference in the direction of the war. In order to build on these tentative gains, the Administration should take a stronger… Read more
Tensions are still high in Pakistan after a tragic NATO strike on Pakistani troops two weeks ago. Where is the...… Read more
Russia is trying to exploit U.S. vulnerability in Afghanistan by squeezing concessions on European missile defense. This...… Read more
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The Pakistani media are having a feeding frenzy over an op-ed written more than a month ago in the London-based...… Read more
The killing of Osama bin Laden was a hard-won victory for the United States, but the gains made in pursuit of that day...… Read more
With the 2014 Afghan troop withdrawal quickly approaching, a recent House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia...… Read more
The Obama Administration is quickly trying to contain the damage in another potential foreign policy debacle, this time...… Read more
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The assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was in charge of the High Peace Council pursuing...… Read more
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