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India fears for Afghanistan after NATO pullout By Shaun Tandon (AFP), May 31, 2012 WASHINGTON — India called for greater coordination with the United States on Afghanistan, voicing fear that Islamic radicals would gain strength once Western forces pull out. NATO leaders in a May 21 summit in Chicago committed to pulling combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 as Western nations

US, Pakistan Row Over Border Crossing Reveals 'Outstanding Problems' Alex Ortolani, Asia Society, May 23rd, 2012 For Video, click here While activists clashed with Chicago police to protest the NATO summit in Chicago this week, the U.S. and Pakistan were having their own stand-off inside the meeting. According to reports from the conference, U.S. President Barack Obama and Pakistan

History 101: Writing a new Pakistani history By Aroosa Shaukat, Express Tribune,  May 17, 2012 LAHORE: Pakistanis must delve into their history with open minds, historian Dr Ayesha Jalal said during a talk on Wednesday. Speaking to over 200 students at the Forman Christian College in a lecture titled Writing Pakistani History: Problems and Challenges, Dr Jalal said that open minds allow

New Hope for India-Pakistan Relations? Nadia Rasul, Asia Society, May 11, 2012 In recent months Pakistan and India have made unprecedented strides in improving bilateral trade relations. Last year Pakistan decided to grant India "most favored nation" status, and recent reports show that Pakistan will soon be importing petrol and energy from India, while India will allow foreign direct

Newsline Editor’s Note: March 2012 By Rehana Hakim It took a US Congressional hearing and resolution on Balochistan last month to shame those in the portals of power to sit up and take notice of the grave situation prevailing in the province. The media had been crying hoarse on the enforced disappearances and target killings in the region, but to no avail. Now, suddenly, President Gilani

How to Prevent Afghanistan from Becoming a Narco-StateTransforming Afghanistan's opium farming from heroin to morphine production would thwart the Taliban and stabilize the economyBy Vartan Gregorian, US News, May 2, 2012 Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York and former president and professor emeritus of history at Brown University, is the author of The Emergence of

What Post-Osama Pakistan Really Needs: Police Reform by Hassan Abbas, Asia Society, May 2, 2012 A year has passed since the May 2, 2011 operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, and we still do not understand why the raid was needed in the first place — or why it took 10 years to put together. What is clear is that it was the United States that had to go after Bin Laden, given the