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Commentary

The Fallacy of the Last Move in Pakistan

This would be a good time for Pakistan and India to negotiate new nuclear risk reduction measures, as both countries may well

May 5, 2011
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Pakistan’s Future and US Assistance

News reports of the Taliban’s mostly uncontested advances in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province have prompted panicky assessments and remedies.  The situation in

May 5, 2011
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10 Questions: What About Pakistan?

This article was originally published on March 2, 2007 by the CBS Evening News.  Katie Couric on CBSnews.com: We began the week

May 5, 2011
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India-Pakistan: Small steps, but long road ahead

Risk takers can make big messes or big successes, especially when they lead nuclear-armed rivals and when they have little in common

May 5, 2011
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Ties Improve as Vajpayee Visits Pakistan and Musharraf Escapes Assassination Attempts

Something refreshingly different is happening in South Asia.  India and Pakistan are beginning to stitch together ties that were severed two years

May 5, 2011
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US-Pakistan Relations: Preventing a Second Divorce

Ties between the United States and Pakistan over the past quarter century have alternated between close partnership and divorce. Adversity has pulled

May 5, 2011
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India-Pakistan Dialogue Set to Resume: Another False Start?

By Shireen Havewala – The Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan will meet on July 15 in Islamabad to resume the dialogue

May 5, 2011
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Increasing Pakistan’s Sense of Security

By Michael Krepon – The Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, where negotiations on fissile material production for nuclear weapons are supposed to

May 5, 2011
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Stabilizing India-Pakistan Relations

By Michael Krepon – Israeli-Palestinian relations have become an object lesson of missed opportunities, failed leadership, and wretched score settling.  After decades

May 5, 2011
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How Safe And Secure Are Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons?

By Michael Krepon – These weapons are the nation’s most closely guarded man-made objects, its “crown jewels,” so to speak.  I do

May 5, 2011
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Pakistan With or Without Musharraf

By Michael Krepon – Pakistan’s sorrows continue to mount. The “good news” talking points of recent Pakistani visitors to Washington linked to

May 5, 2011
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Seeking a Safe Landing in Pakistan

By Michael Krepon and Alex Stolar  – Nawaz Sharif’s dramatic return to Pakistan was short-lived.  His deportation to Saudi Arabia accelerates the

May 5, 2011