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 Pakistan clearly calls for heightened concern, but panic is usually not…
By Liz Whitfield: The Pakistani military is currently battling militants in the country’s tribal areas in an attempt to eradicate terrorist groups committed to the overthrow of the Pakistani state. This operation, focused…
By Shireen Havewala – The Foreign Ministers of India and Pakistan will meet on July 15 in Islamabad to resume the dialogue suspended after the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. Will this meeting finally…
By Michael Krepon – Israeli-Palestinian relations have become an object lesson of missed opportunities, failed leadership, and wretched score settling. After decades of painstaking U.S. efforts to clarify the basic outlines of a…
There is no better place than Wagah to look for evidence of how badly India-Pakistan relations have eroded. Wagah is the only legally permissible place where, between the hours of 10:00 AM to…
Abbottabad is a quiet, lovely city. The Stimson Center convened a Track II workshop there for rising Pakistani strategic analysts. The city’s most prominent feature remains Kakul, the Pakistani military academy where outstanding…
Osama bin Laden was killed early Monday (Sunday afternoon in Washington), in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr., Ellen Laipson, and Michael Krepon comment…
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 and condensation of the author’s remarks in a panel discussion on…
Even during periods of significant leverage, Washington has not had the power to stop and reverse Pakistan’s nuclear trend lines. As a result of the US-India nuclear deal and the presence of…
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 Pakistan clearly calls for heightened concern, but panic is usually not…