Topic: South Asia

Commentary

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
Michael Krepon
Commentary

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
Commentary

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
Commentary

Pakistan’s Decline

By Michael Krepon – It has become difficult to identify positive trend lines in Pakistan, where growing nuclear stockpiles provide no protection

May 5, 2011

Aasiya Riaz speaks about the judiciary and rule of law in Pakistan

Aasiya Riaz, Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency, speaks about the judiciary and rule of law in Pakistan.

May 5, 2011
Commentary

Syed Iqbal Hasnain on the Pakistan floods

Distinguished Visiting Fellow Syed Iqbal Hasnain was published in the Dawn newspaper of Pakistan on the flood disaster. 

May 5, 2011
Syed Iqbal Hasnain
Commentary

Déjà Vu: This Military Operation In Pakistan Must Be Different

By Liz Whitfield:  The Pakistani military is currently battling militants in the country’s tribal areas in an attempt to eradicate terrorist groups

May 5, 2011
Commentary

Osama and U.S.-Pakistan Relations

Abbottabad is a quiet, lovely city.  The Stimson Center convened a Track II workshop there for rising Pakistani strategic analysts.  The city’s

May 2, 2011
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Stimson Experts React to Death of Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden was killed early Monday (Sunday afternoon in Washington), in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs on his compound in

May 2, 2011
Commentary

Michael Krepon op-ed published in Dawn

Michael Krepon’s op-ed, “South Asia’s Many Crises,” appeared in the Pakistani paper Dawn. (April 20) His article can be found here.

April 20, 2011
Michael Krepon
Policy Paper

Learning From South Asia’s Many Crises

Editor’s note: The Carnegie Endowment convened its 2011 International Nuclear Policy Conferenceon March 28-29 in Washington, D.C.  This essay is an adaptation

March 28, 2011
Michael Krepon
Commentary

Pakistan and the Bomb

  Even during periods of significant leverage, Washington has not had the power to stop and reverse Pakistan’s nuclear trend lines. As

March 9, 2011
Michael Krepon
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