The London Conference: It is time for India to reassess its Afghan Policy
 Arvind Gupta
 
Obama’s Afghan Strategy: Surge or Retreat?
 Shanthie Mariet D'Souza
 
CIA bomber' indicates Taliban's reach
By M Ilyas Khan
 
The Meaning of al Qaeda's Double Agent
By REUEL MARC GERECHT
 
Economics and extremism
By Shahid Javed Burki
 
Another centre of terror
By Huma Yusuf
 
Howling at the moon
By Irfan Husain
 
The shadow war in Afghanistan
 By Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
 
USA's Yemeni Policy directed at China
By M K Bhadrakumar
 
THE 313 BRIGADE
 B.RAMAN
Afghanistan,  Pakistan Perilous Year Ahead
 
It Can Happen Here
 Stephen Schwartz Stephen Schwartz
 
US-Pakistan partnership: Make it work for both sides
 Teresita C. Schaffer
 
Pakistan—plots and subplots—the story unfolds
 Bruce Clarke
 
Al Qaeda to find open arms
 
A bad time for anything
 By BUNN NAGARA
 
India clueless on top al-Qaeda leader’s visit
 Praveen Swami
 
Balochistan Unrelenting Insurgency
Kanchan Lakshman
 
Uncomprehending in ‘AfPak’
By Vikram Sood
Former Secretary, R&AW; Vice President, ORF Centre for International Affairs
 
Pakistan In Peril
BY Rory Walkinshaw
 

Editorial

The people of Pakistan are currently in the grip of worst ever terrorism, the country has seen. It is spreading quickly from Taliban strongholds in North-West and FATA to the mainland including the major cities of Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi. It would hardly serve any purpose in reiterating here the universally known role of ISI and a section of Pakistan Army in taking the country to the precipice of disaster. more...