South Asia

The Most Dangerous Border in the World

Why is China picking a fight with India?

BY ELY RATNER, ALEXANDER SULLIVAN | MAY 4, 2013

Standoff at 15,000 Feet

Photos of the world's highest border dispute.

MAY 3, 2013

Kabul's Unlikely New Ally

Has Pakistan decided it's finally time to embrace Afghanistan?

BY DANIEL SAGALYN | MAY 1, 2013

8 Myths About India's Growth

On closer inspection, the Indian miracle turns out to be pretty ordinary after all.

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | APRIL 29, 2013

The End of the Gandhis

Can Rahul Gandhi run India? Can anybody?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY/JUNE 2013

Springtime in Kabul

While the media obsessed over the missteps, Afghans were building a better future.

MAY/JUNE 2013

Well, This Is Awkward

How Pervez Musharraf's foolish return to Pakistan is creating problems for the United States.

BY DANIEL MARKEY | APRIL 25, 2013

Musharraf’s Great Folly Tests the Army

Pakistan's former dictator returned home to what he thought would be a hero's welcome. Instead, a court ordered his arrest -- and put the military in an awkward spot.

BY ARIF RAFIQ | APRIL 18, 2013

Ten Questions for the New BRICS Bank

The great emerging markets want to start their own bank. But it doesn't seem like they've really thought it through.

BY ISOBEL COLEMAN | APRIL 9, 2013

The Pit of Despair

In the streets of Pakistan, people have had it about up to here. For the Obama administration’s diminished goals there, maybe that’s not a bad thing.

BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 5, 2013

Patently Reasonable

India's Supreme Court has ruled against Big Pharma and for the country's generic drug companies. But who's the big winner in the end?

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | APRIL 3, 2013

Let Them Go

Why John Brennan should give a passport and $10K to every Gitmo prisoner.

BY ROSA BROOKS | MARCH 28, 2013

Policing Electoral Violence in India

How India's elections administration used “vulnerability mapping” to stop trouble before it happened.

BY MICHAEL SCHARFF | MARCH 21, 2013

Egypt's Financial High Noon

Cairo needs to tackle its subsidy addiction. And yes, it’s not going to be easy.

BY ISOBEL COLEMAN | MARCH 21, 2013

Defeating Extreme Poverty

An exclusive excerpt of USAID's 2013 Annual Letter.

BY RAJIV SHAH | MARCH 18, 2013

Wayward in Waziristan

How the United States is blowing the war on terror in the most dangerous place in the world.

BY AKBAR AHMED, HARRISON AKINS | MARCH 15, 2013

Pakistan’s Wildcard

The mysterious Pakistani-Canadian cleric is back, and he’s shaking up the country’s politics.

BY DANIEL MARKEY | MARCH 14, 2013

Gentle Giant

Why isn’t India spending more on its military?

BY DHRUVA JAISHANKAR | MARCH 6, 2013

Missing in Action

Extremists are destroying the fabric of Pakistani society. Where is the government?

BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | MARCH 4, 2013

Good News from the Hindu Kush

How Afghanistan has changed for the better after more than a decade of war.

BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH | MARCH 4, 2013

The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan

"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."

BY VALI NASR | MARCH 4, 2013

What Went Right?

Critics of the war are missing the big picture: Afghanistan is much better off today.

BY PETER BERGEN | MARCH 4, 2013

Lessons Learned (and Not)

Seven things we've learned after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 4, 2013

A Country Unto Itself

There’s no place like India. Which is precisely why its politics and economy are such a contradictory, beautiful mess.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 1, 2013

Return of the Gandhis

In the new India, everything is moving a mile a minute. Except politics.

BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Forget the Flowers and Candy

Images from the women's rights rallies that have been taking place around the world this week.

BY NEHA PALIWAL | FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Westward Ho!

As America pivots east, China marches in the other direction.

BY YUN SUN | FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Love Is a Battlefield

Are the Taliban using sex to fight America?

BY MUJIB MASHAL | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We Shall Return

Don't be too sure there won't be another U.S. war in the Middle East.

BY RICHARD L. RUSSELL | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Size Matters

The miniaturization of U.S. foreign policy.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 4, 2013