You have to wonder what is going on in the minds of Pakistan’s leaders as the Pakistani Taliban seemingly retreat from their defiant occupation of a district dangerously close to the nation’s capital –- a crisis that has left the country and the world on edge.
Are President Asif Ali Zardari and his advisors so confident [...]

Peter W. Galbraith, the author of The End of Iraq and Unintended Consequences: How War in Iraq Strengthened America’s Enemies, formerly served as a U.S. ambassador to Croatia. He discussed global challenges for the United States with foreign-affairs columnist John C. Bersia.

When Benazir Bhutto, the recently assassinated former prime minister of Pakistan, returned to her homeland some months ago, more than a few of my informed sources made reference to a “dead woman walking.”
It was, they said, only a matter of time before her violent, religiously extreme adversaries would make good on their threats and claim [...]

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s declaration of a state of emergency in Pakistan, backed by military muscle, could ignite a wildfire of discontent and instability that sends him scurrying from power, some critics contend. Others cheer the weekend’s strong-arm move as overdue and decisive, in fact, the proper prescription for an epidemic of Islamic extremism. Of [...]