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Asia Society is currently seeking nominations for the Oz prize For Details, click Asia Society, New York The $10,000 prize is awarded annually to a writer or team of writers who has produced the best example of journalism about Asia during the calendar year. Criteria for the prize include consideration for the impact of the work, its originality, creativity, depth of research and educational

Cameron Munter blasts US ‘callousness’ on Pakistan Dawn, February 13, 2013 [Also see: A Former US Ambassador's Advice on How to Work With Pakistan - Asia Society, Feb 7, 2013] WASHINGTON: AFP : Former US ambassador to Islamabad Cameron Munter on Wednesday criticised Washington’s “callousness” over the killing of Pakistani troops as he called for both nations to rethink how they see each other.

Sharia and Diversity: Why Some Americans are Missing the Point Asifa Quraishi-Landes, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, January 16, 2013 Executive Summary: The lens of state power is not the only way to see law. Jewish halakha is one example. The scholar-created doctrines of Islamic law are another. Both are complete systems of law that do not need state power in order to

NOTE: The author of this blog had exposed these facts about Kargil Operation in his book 'Pakistan's Drift into Extremism' as early as July 2004: See the relevant text of the book by clicking here and here Kargil Adventure was Four Men Show: General Khaleeq Kiani, Dawn, January 29, 2013 ISLAMABAD: The men who witnessed the Kargil fiasco continue to spill the beans. Lt Gen (retd) Shahid Aziz, a

Which Way Did the Taliban Go?By Luke Mogelson, New York Times, January 17, 2013 The village was abandoned. Streets deserted. Houses empty. Behind the central mosque rose a steep escarpment. Behind the escarpment mountains upon mountains. Up there — above the timberline, among the peaks — a white Taliban flag whipped in the wind. Several Afghan soldiers were admiring it when a stunted and