CORRECTION: This article originally and unfortunately referred to Moeed Yusuf as a proxy of Pakistani officials. Due to a serious editorial lapse, for which I take personal responsibility, this w...
http://warontherocks.com/2017/06/pakistans-anxieties-are-incurable-so-stop-trying-to-cure-them/
Pakistan continues to burnish its credentials as a state sponsor of terrorism abroad and as a repressive, murderous environment for dissidents at home. It is a well-known fact that Pakistan’s...
http://warontherocks.com/2017/01/pakistans-unending-war-on-civil-society/
During the presidential debates, the myriad policy challenges in South Asia were not discussed. Yet it is South Asia where some of the most obdurate and intractable policy challenges reside. In A...
http://warontherocks.com/2016/12/getting-south-asia-on-track-ideas-for-the-next-president/
Is Pakistan undergoing a “shocking strategic shift” away from its long-standing India-centric policies and preference for supporting non-state proxies? That is just what Sameer Lalwani provoc...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/08/pakistans-strategic-shift-is-pure-fiction/
Over the years, I’ve had the occasion to meet various officials from the Indian Embassy in Washington. They have all at one point or another asked the same questions: “How do the Pakistanis k...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/06/how-pakistan-beguiles-the-americans-a-guide-for-foreign-officials/
In the wake of India’s hot pursuit of militants into Myanmar, Pakistan has raised numerous alarms about Indian aggression. It has issued various warnings that no such Indian incursion into Paki...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/06/false-equivalency-in-the-indo-pakistan-dispute/
Yesterday, Americans celebrated Memorial Day to remember and commemorate the millions of men and women in uniform who sacrificed their lives in the service of their country. For many Americans th...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/05/honor-our-fallen-by-getting-real-on-pakistan/
The United States generally, and the U.S. State Department in particular, seem perennially unwilling to grasp the realities of Pakistan. Refusing to recognize that Pakistan pursues ideological go...
http://warontherocks.com/2015/04/groundhog-day-in-u-s-pakistan-relations/
Last week, the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP or “Pakistani Taliban”) outraged the world when it attacked an Army Public School in Peshawar. The attackers sprayed bullets frenetically, kil...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/12/after-peshawar-expect-business-as-usual-in-pakistan/
Hardly a day before India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was scheduled to land in the United States for his first state visit since being elected, an American federal court issued a summons to ...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/09/judging-modi-the-historical-context/
Carlotta Gall, The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014). When the United States decided to launch Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan on Octob...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/07/pakistan-did-the-right-enemy-know-where-bin-laden-was/
Amidst much fanfare and after months of advanced warning, the Pakistan army recently launched Operation Zarb-e-Azb (“Great Strike,” named after a sword used by the prophet Muhammad) in North ...
According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2013 nearly 700 Shia were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in more than 200 sectarian terrorist attacks. Over 90 percent of those ...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/05/whos-killing-pakistans-shia-and-why/
The U.S.-Pakistan “strategic dialogue” has restarted yet again. I would be remiss if I did not point that it has never been strategic and it has certainly not been a dialogue. No doubt th...
http://warontherocks.com/2014/01/ten-fictions-that-pakistani-defense-officials-love-to-peddle/