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Pakistan

  1. foreign interests
    What You Need to Know About India’s Power Grab in KashmirRevoking Kashmir’s special status ratcheted up tensions with Pakistan and China, threatening to ignite fresh conflict in the heavily militarized area.
    By Jonah Shepp
  2. the national interest
    Trump: India Wants Me to Mediate Kashmir Conflict. India: No, We Don’t.Trump wanders into delicate standoff he doesn’t understand between two nuclear powers. What could go wrong?
    By Jonathan Chait
  3. skirmish
    Things Are Getting Very Tense Between India and PakistanOn Wednesday, Pakistan says it shot down an Indian fighter jet and captured its pilot.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  4. foreign policy
    Pakistan Is a Problematic Ally, But Trump Cutting It Off Won’t Change ThatEnding U.S. security assistance in an effort to sever Pakistan’s ties to terror groups shows the administration has misjudged a complex situation.
    By Jonah Shepp
  5. What the Trump Administration Means When It Says ‘On Notice’▶️ Is it more than an empty threat?
    By Brittany Stephanis
  6. ISIS Says It’s Behind Attack in Pakistan That Leaves More Than 60 People DeadOfficials have not confirmed the terror group’s claim about the assault that also left more than 115 wounded at a police cadet academy in Quetta.
    By Jen Kirby
  7. war in afghanistan
    Reports: Afghan Taliban Leader Killed in U.S. Air StrikeThe targeting of Mullah Mansour is the U.S. military’s most significant strike on Pakistani soil since the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011.
    By Chas Danner
  8. awful things
    Suicide Bomber Attacks Families at a Public Park in Pakistan, Kills at Least 65Mostly women and children were killed in the Taliban-linked attack, which was specifically targeting the country’s Christian minority.
    By Chas Danner
  9. ISIS Now Has a Network of Military Affiliates in 11 Countries Around the WorldTerror groups from Libya to the Philippines have joined the ISIS cause.
    By Katie Zavadski
  10. terrorble
    Pakistan Releases Suspect in Murder of U.S. Journalist Daniel PearlThere apparently weren’t enough grounds for detaining him.
    By Katie Zavadski
  11. Pakistani Taliban Claim Responsibility for Deadly Attack on Karachi AirportAt least 28 people were killed.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  12. journalism
    NYT Story About Pakistan Disappeared in PakistanA printer simply deleted the piece from the cover of the international edition of the paper.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  13. international news
    The U.S. Evacuated Its Consulate in LahoreCiting “specific threats.”
    By Adam Martin
  14. Taliban Commander Writes Suspicious LetterNot suspicious at all. 
    By Dan Amira
  15. international affairs
    Pakistan Gunmen Kill Ten Foreign Tourists, Including One AmericanA Taliban group says it’s retaliation for U.S. drone strikes.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  16. terrorble
    Men Arrested for ‘Joking’ Plane Bomb ThreatA Pakistan International Airlines flight had to be diverted as a result.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  17. drone wars
    Report: CIA’s Drone Program in Pakistan Began With Assassination Deal The Americans agreed to kill a Pakistani militant in exchange for permission to conduct more targeted killings.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  18. war on terror
    Another Suspect Arrested for Killing Daniel Pearl in PakistanMilitant Qari Abdul Hayee was picked up in Karachi.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  19. overreactions
    American Flag Gets Last LaughA Pakistani protester died from inhaling the smoke of a burning American flag.
    By Dan Amira
  20. international affairs
    Anti-U.S. Protests Spark Up Again in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Beyond [Updated]After a brief calm, violence is again raging across the Middle East.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  21. terrorble
    There May Be a Job Opening for Al Qaeda’s Second-in-Command [Updated]Here’s the listing.
    By Dan Amira
  22. times square car bombing
    Four Men Acquitted in 2010 Times Square Bomb Plot CaseIn Pakistani court.
    By Andre Tartar
  23. Rubio’s Evolution on ‘Pakistan’ PronunciationWill conservatives find it as funny?
    By Dan Amira
  24. osama bin killed
    Pakistani Gets Prison for Helping CIA Find OsamaNice work there, Pakistan.
    By Dan Amira
  25. international intrigue
    Obama Fails to Settle Pakistan Dispute at NATO SummitSupply lines remain closed.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  26. taliban spring offensive
    Taliban Kick Off Their Spring Offensive With Explosions and a Prison Breakout In Kabul, attacked embassies; in Pakistan, nearly 400 inmates freed.
    By Andre Tartar
  27. pakistan
    Avalanche Strikes Pakistani Army BaseAt least 100 soldiers are believed to have been buried.
    By Bryan Hood
  28. deportations
    Pakistan to Deport Osama bin Laden’s Wives, DaughtersThey confessed to illegally entering the country.
    By Andre Tartar
  29. osama bin killed
    Pakistan Plans to Blast Bin Laden Compound Like an ‘Enemy Fort’You’re about nine months too late on this one, but thanks for the effort. 
    By Dan Amira
  30. Al Qaeda Claims an American Hostage in PakistanIt’s 70-year-old Warren Weinstein.
    By Menachem Kaiser
  31. international intrigue
    President Obama Won’t Apologize to PakistanWeird!
    By Dan Amira
  32. other countries’ embarrassments
    You Can No Longer Text the Phrase ‘Monkey Crotch’ in PakistanActually you can’t text a lot of things now.
    By Dan Amira
  33. pakistan
    Did Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency Help Afghan Insurgents Attack the U.S. Embassy Last Week?That’s what Mike Mullen says.
    By Noreen Malone
  34. the breakup
    FBI Says Pakistan May Have Funneled Campaign Money to Tilt U.S. PolicyMore tension between the U.S. and Pakistan.
    By Mike Vilensky
  35. little gitmo
    The Balancer: Animal-Rights Activist Andrew Stepanian Talks About His Time Inside ‘Little Gitmo’Communication Management Unit prisons — or “little Gitmos” — mostly house Muslims suspected of terrorism, “balanced” by a few non-Muslims.
    By Christopher S. Stewart
  36. the breakup
    U.S. Now Withholding Millions in Aid From Pakistan“The relationship is very complicated.”
    By Mike Vilensky
  37. osama bin laden
    New Clue Suggests Group With Ties to Pakistani Intelligence Might Have Helped Shelter Bin LadenU.S. intelligence has gotten its hands on his courier’s cell phone.
    By Noreen Malone
  38. international intrigue
    America Questions What Its Many Sundry Wars Are Good ForAbsolutely nothing, some contend.
    By Dan Amira
  39. pakistan
    Pakistan Arrests CIA Informants That Helped Us Find Bin LadenOh, so you didn’t want us to find him?
    By Julie Gerstein
  40. al qaeda
    Al Qaeda’s ‘Military Brain’ Reportedly Killed in PakistanIlyas Kashmiri is allegedly dead.
    By Mike Vilensky
  41. terrorble
    Taliban on Car Bomb in Pakistan That Injured Ten: ‘We Had Warned That We Will Avenge the Martyrdom of Osama’Here we go.
    By Chris Rovzar
  42. pakistan
    China Is Giving Pakistan 50 Fighter JetsHow nice of them.
    By Julie Gerstein
  43. osama bin killed
    Pakistan’s Parliament Condemns U.S. Raid on Bin Laden“They have conducted a sting operation on us.”
    By Mike Vilensky
  44. terrorble
    Suicide Attack Kills at Least 82 Soldiers in PakistanWas it retaliation for Osama bin Laden’s death?
    By Dan Amira
  45. osama bin killed
    Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens in PakistanPossibly to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden.
    By Julie Gerstein
  46. osama bin killed
    The U.S. Has Osama Bin Laden’s Handwritten JournalSeized along with five computers and 100 flashdrives.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  47. osama bin killed
    Pervez Musharraf Admits Rogue Pakistani Officers Might Have Helped Hide Bin Laden“You want to alienate Pakistan, you will be a loser.”
    By Nitasha Tiku
  48. osama bin killed
    Pakistan Thinks It Might Have to Show China That Secret Helicopter We Left BehindThis relationship is getting ugly.
    By Dan Amira
  49. osama bin killed
    Pakistan Might Let the U.S. Interview Bin Laden’s WivesThis won’t help convince Pakistani citizens that we’re not in cahoots.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  50. osama bin killed
    U.S. Forces Were Ordered to Fight Their Way Out of Pakistan If Necessary“Given our difficult relationship with Pakistan right now, the president did not want to leave anything to chance.”
    By Julie Gerstein
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