After Mumbai
The Editors : US Foreign Policy
There is no military solution to the crisis in South Asia. It falls to Barack Obama to create a new path out of the deepening Afghan-Pakistan crisis.
2008
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Obama's Afghan Dilemma
Robert Dreyfuss : Afghanistan
Obama calls Afghanistan "the right war." But sending more US troops into the quagmire will only make the crisis worse.
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After Musharraf
Barbara Crossette : US Foreign Policy
Pervez Musharraf is history, but his opponents seem unable to agree on what to do next. After so many disappointments, can Pakistan rise to the occasion?
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New Era for Pakistan--and Kashmir?
Barbara Crossette : India
The resignation of Pervez Musharraf and a looming election in India offer hope that with the right leadership, the sixty-year faceoff over Kashmir might finally be resolved.
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Getting Pakistan Wrong
Graham Usher : Afghanistan
The US military's aggressive confrontation with the Taliban and its Al Qaeda cohorts in Pakistan is only making matters worse.
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Surprising Outcomes in Pakistan
Moni Mohsin
In an election replete with surprises, the people of Pakistan have chosen wisely. Now it is up to the elected parties to rule wisely.
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Bhutto's Tangled Legacy
Graham Usher
Will the PPP revive her power-sharing deal with Musharraf or join with Nawaz Sharif to re-establish constitutional rule?
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Jinnah's New Republic
Andrew Roth : Nation History
Seldom has a state been created under such contradictory pressures or with such a load of full-grown problems.
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Amid Silence, Terror War Escalates
Tom Hayden : Afghanistan
Bush's "war on terror" is escalating without discussion or dissent amid the most open and democratic of American processes--the presidential debates.
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A New Diplomacy for Pakistan
Christian Parenti : US Foreign Policy
As American policy-makers and pundits seek a Plan B for Pakistan, it's time to recognize the desperate need for a new diplomacy for the Muslim world.
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Benazir's Bequest
Amy Wilentz : Benazir Bhutto
In the shock, power grabs and crackdowns that followed Benazir Bhutto's assassination, it's easy to forget that the greatest casualty in Pakistan is the rule of law.
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Charlie Wilson's War--and Ours
Robert Scheer : Film
Unlike the plot of the latest Tom Hanks film, the blowback price of our incessant meddling could prove quite high. And even Hollywood can't put a pretty face on that one.
2007
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Amnesia at the Multiplex
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Islam & Muslims
Two films address US adventures in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with a big dose of historical amnesia, political pandering, moral superiority and outraged innocence.
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Pakistan Without Benazir
The deeply flawed, arresting, autocratic Benazir Bhutto had the wherewithal to save her country but repeatedly disappointed. Yet she represented the best secular option for breaching Pakistan's multiple fissures.
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Benazir Bhutto: A Death Foretold
For all her pro-American rhetoric, many in Benazir Bhutto's party held America responsible for the "judicial murder" of her father. Will Bhutto's assassination have a like impact?
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Benazir Bhutto: An Age of Hope Is Over
Barbara Crossette : Urban Issues
As the world mourns the loss of Benazir Bhutto, it would be myopic to focus only on Islamic-inspired violence and on Pakistan. For all of post-independence history, South Asia has been a region drenched in blood.
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Another Death in Rawalpindi
The killing of Benazir Bhutto echoes Pakistan's troubled history, portends more violence and flags a proud country's collapse into chaos. It also signals the manifest bankruptcy of the Bush Administration's anti-terrorism.
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GWOT: Pakistan
Shahan Mufti : US Foreign Policy
As the Taliban gains strength, a nascent democracy in Pakistan withers.
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Students for a Free Pakistan
Jayati Vora : Student Movements
Putting blogs, cellphones and text messages to work, Pakistani students around the world are rallying against Musharraf's martial law.
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Pakistan's Bomb: Have It Your Way
Catherine Collins & Douglas Frantz : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
Thanks to globalization, the 'Islamic bomb' turns out to be a little bit American, Canadian, Swiss, German, Dutch, British, Japanese and even Russian.
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A Good Week for the Saudis
Their boy Nawaz Sharif's back in Pakistan, oil prices are soaring and the Bushies continue to do their bidding.
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Trappings of Democracy in Pakistan
Graham Usher : US Foreign Policy
As hopes fade for the rule of law in Pakistan, the Bush Administration signals it will settle for just the trappings of democracy. People are braced for disaster.
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Bush, Pakistan and the Bomb
Jonathan Schell : Nuclear Arms & Proliferation
The Bush Administration's failed war on terror has stoked the fires it was meant to quench. And in Pakistan, the risk of nuclear terrorisism is on the rise.
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Bush Stands By His Dictator
Robert Scheer : George W. Bush
Bush's coddling of Pervez Musharraf defies all reason--and bears some unsettling similarity to his own offenses and misteps as President.
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Judicial Activism in a Time of No Irony
Patricia J. Williams : Attorney General
Contemplating Mukasey, Musharraf and the imprisoned lawyers of Pakistan: how easily a modern liberal democracy can slide into a totalitarian state.
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