Pakistan

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan

Pakistan skipped the US Summit for Democracy. Why?

Monday, December 13, 2021

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony by the National Program of Civic-Military Schools, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The awkward guests: Parsing the Summit for Democracy invitation list

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan addresses, via prerecorded video the General Debate of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 24, 2021. Peter Foley/Pool via REUTERS

Post Afghanistan, US-Pakistan relations stand on the edge of a precipice

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Pakistani military personnel stand beside short-range Surface to Surface Missile NASR during Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 23, 2017. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Afghans board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport plane during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, August 22, 2021. U.S. Air Force/Handout via REUTERS

Joe Biden must ignore the Taliban’s August 31 withdrawal “red line”

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Taliban fighters stand guard on their side at a border crossing point between Pakistan and Afghanistan, in Torkham, in Khyber district, Pakistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. In the current situation of Afghanistan, pedestrian movement has been limited in Torkham border, only stranded people on both sides and trucks taking goods to Afghanistan can pass through this border point. (Photo by Hussain Ali/Pacific Press/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Pakistan’s problematic victory in Afghanistan

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney (R) speaks to President George W. Bushby phone inside the operations center at the White House with staff,September 11, 2001, the day of the terror attacks in New York andWashington. Bush on September 16, 2001 asked "horrified" Americans togo back to work this week, cautioning them to be alert for more attacksand to brace for a long crusade to "rid the world of evildoers".Picture released by the White House on September 16. REUTERS/WHITEHOUSE photo by David BohrerME

September 11 in the White House

Monday, August 23, 2021

A member of Taliban (C) stands outside Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Stringer

Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami

Monday, August 16, 2021

People on vehicles, holding Taliban flags, gather near the Friendship Gate crossing point in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Chaman, Pakistan July 14, 2021. Picture taken July 14, 2021. REUTERS/Abdul Khaliq Achakzai

An uneasy limbo for US-Pakistan relations amidst the withdrawal from Afghanistan

Friday, August 6, 2021

President and Mrs. Kennedy with President of Pakistan Mohammad Ayub Khan and His Wife at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

When JFK hosted Pakistan’s president at Mount Vernon

Tuesday, July 6, 2021