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“I’m Very Comfortable as a Hybridized Mongrel”

By Amitabh Pal, May 2013 Issue Wisdom from the Author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist.read more

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Watch a Movie Full of Ideas

By Amitabh Pal, May 26, 2013 “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” offers compelling viewing.read more

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Pakistan Issues Blunt Report on bin Laden Raid

By Amitabh Pal, July 9, 2013 See how Osama was stopped by Pakistani police in 2002.read more

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Malala's Example: Silence on Drones is Not an Option

By Adrienne Lowry, Oct. 16, 2013 16-year-old girl emerges as a leading voice against America's drone war.read more

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CIA Aims to Hide Top Secret Drone Killing Files

By Marcy Wheeler, Oct. 16, 2013 Obama's attorneys continue their efforts to hide files on killing Americans.read more

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Pakistani Officials Insist They Do Not Approve U.S. Drone Strikes

By AFP, Oct. 24, 2013 read more

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Pakistani Taliban's New Leader Could Spark Military Conflict

By AFP, Nov. 8, 2013 New Taliban commander was reportedly involved in the shooting of Malala.read more

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Over 100 Pakistani Lawmakers Protest U.S. Drone Strikes

By AFP, Dec. 5, 2013 Large group of legislators march through Islamabad, demanding end to U.S. strikes.read more

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Pakistan's Malala Calls Nelson Mandela 'My Leader'

By AFP, Dec. 6, 2013 "He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world."read more

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Bhutto's Children Enter Pakistani Politics

By AFP, Dec. 27, 2013 Slain leader's offspring carry her legacy forward amid national turbulence.read more

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India-Pakistan Tensions Underscore Need for Nuclear Disarmament

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Pakistan Not Yet a Failed State

By Amitabh Pal, March 6, 2009 Is Pakistan a failed state? This is becoming a favorite parlor game, both in the West and in Pakistan’s Doppelganger, India.My answer is no, not yet, but things are...

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Pakistan Needs Development, Not Drones

By Amitabh Pal, May 15, 2009 Too bad it had to come to this in Pakistan. More than a million civilians displaced, in the largest internal refugee crisis since the country’s founding. Hundreds killed...

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Pakistan Needs to Make Clean Break With Jihadists

By Amitabh Pal, October 15, 2009 If recent events don’t force Pakistan’s establishment to sever its weirdly codependent ties with Islamic militancy, nothing will.It’s been a horrendous week for the...

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Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan

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Obama Needs to Tackle South Asia as a Whole

By Amitabh Pal, December 4, 2009 President Obama needs to resolve the problem of India and Pakistan before he can have any hope of success in Afghanistan.In his speech on Tuesday, he wasn’t forthright...

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Global Warming and the Pakistani Flood

By Matthew Rothschild, August 13, 2010 It’s impossible to look at the images coming out of Pakistan and not shake your head at the brutality of Mother Nature.But is it Mother Nature’s fault—or our...

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Cricket Match Gives Boost to Better Relations

By Amitabh Pal, April 1, 2011 A recent sporting event had two countries playing cricket with each other, a game that is incomprehensibly boring for most Americans. So why should anyone care?Because...

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Drone Attacks in Pakistan Counterproductive

By Amitabh Pal, April 15, 2011 A recent move by the Pakistani government to curtail U.S. drone attacks highlights their problematic nature.Yes, the Pakistani establishment has for a long time been...

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Gandhi Was in Abbottabad, Too

By Amitabh Pal, May 5, 2011 The very place connected with Osama bin Laden’s death offers us an alternative to his violent, nihilistic version of Islam.Abbottabad, the quiet, picturesque hill town...

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U.S. and Pakistan: A Most Complicated Alliance

By Amitabh Pal, July 15, 2011 The possibly most complicated alliance in the world is becoming even more entangled.The United States is announcing that it is withholding more than a third of its...

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U.S. Must Change Policy Toward Pakistan

By Amitabh Pal, September 30, 2011 The United States should get serious about Pakistan.It should reassure Islamabad that it has no intention to launch a war. And it should insist on resolving the...

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Not Cheering Obama's Rub Out of Al-Awlaki

September 30, 2011 Follow Matthew Rothschild @mattrothschild on Twitter

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Stop Obama’s Drone War in Pakistan

By Matthew Rothschild, April 14, 2012 The Pakistani government and its opposition parties have just come together in a rare show of unity to demand that the United States cease all drone attacks...

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Things still unsettled one year after killing of bin Laden

By Rafia Zakaria, May 2, 2012 One year after the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on May 2, things are far from settled in that part of the world.The most familiar image of the event is not of...

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Rock Star and Activist Salman Ahmad Still Going Strong

By Amitabh Pal, September 3, 2012 The “Bono of South Asia” is still in fine form.More than two decades after Pakistani-American rock star and activist Salman Ahmad began a musical journey that has...

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Anti-Drone March in Pakistan

By Mudassar Shah, October 11, 2012 Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan organized a peace march to South Waziristan to protest U.S. drone attacks this past weekend. The peace march started from...

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Pakistan’s Heartening Response to Hideous Attack

by Amitabh Pal, October 12, 2012 The Taliban’s outrageous shooting of the fourteen-year-old Pakistani feminist Malala Yousufzai has brought home to horror that these fanatics would perpetuate....

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Pledging Loyalty in Times of Uncertainty

By Meher Ahmad, October 19, 2012 This past weekend, I sat with my grandmother as she prepared for her citizenship test. My mother took the role of the immigration officer, asking her to answer a slew...

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Malala Yousafzai: A Brave Soul

By Mudassar Shah, October 24, 2012 It was a cold winter evening in December 2009, when I reached Zia Ud Din, father of Malala Yousafzai. I called him because I was doing a story about internally...

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