South Asia

No Chickens or Cricket Bats

The strange list of Indian products you can't import in Pakistan.

DECEMBER 2012

The Cult of Massoud

How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.

BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The Cult

Afghanistan's national hero has started a craze on the streets of Kabul.

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

The Corruption Pandemic

Why corruption is set to become one of the defining political issues of the 21st century.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 8, 2012

No Game Change

The bipartisan consensus in Washington about expanding ties with India may be good for New Delhi, but it's turned the election into a snoozer.

BY SADANAND DHUME | NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Pakistani Power Play

If the United States wants to curb terrorism and nuclear proliferation, it needs to fundamentally rethink its relationship with Pakistan.

BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Prosperity Isn't Just a Matter of Wealth

Man does not live by GDP alone. An introduction to the Legatum Institute's latest Prosperity Index.

BY PETER PASSELL | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

One Storm Away

10 major world cities that could end up underwater.

BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | OCTOBER 31, 2012

We're Winning in Afghanistan

Why hasn't the media noticed?

BY STEWART UPTON | OCTOBER 24, 2012

Afghanistan's Gray Future

It's Hamid Karzai's country now, and not everything is black and white.

BY HASEEB HUMAYOON | OCTOBER 18, 2012

We Are All Malala

Why can't Pakistanis condemn the Taliban for shooting a 14-year-old girl?

BY NADEEM F. PARACHA | OCTOBER 10, 2012

Talking Our Way Out Of Afghanistan

NATO needs to negotiate with the Taliban NOW, before all the troops -- and our leverage -- are gone.

BY MATT WALDMAN | OCTOBER 9, 2012

The Sanctions Conundrum

Some say the sanctions against Tehran are working. But wasn't the Iranian economy already a basket case?

BY PETER PASSELL | OCTOBER 9, 2012

Think Again: The BRICS

Together, their GDP now nearly equals the United States. But are they really the future of the global economy?

BY ANTOINE VAN AGTMAEL | NOVEMBER 2012

Justice Delayed

Why is it so hard to figure out who killed Christopher Stevens?

BY MARTHA CRENSHAW | OCTOBER 4, 2012

Northern Alliance

Canada's defense minister talks about security in the Americas -- and Afghanistan.

INTERVIEW BY KEVIN BARON | OCTOBER 2, 2012

Trust Fall

What's behind the inside attacks on U.S. forces in Afghanistan? The 2014 timeline for withdrawal.

BY FELISA DYRUD, DAVOOD MORADIAN | OCTOBER 2, 2012

The Afghan Surge Is Over

So did it work?

BY RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The Real Pivot

It's time to change our plans in Afghanistan.

BY DAVID BARNO | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Tribal Warfare

Why did the Pentagon award a $7 million Afghanistan security contract to this group of Native Americans in Oklahoma?

BY JOHN REED | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The Great Pharmaceuticals Scam

India has a problem with substandard drugs -- and American regulators are allowing them to be imported into the United States.

BY ROGER BATE | SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What Happens When the Lights Go Out in Karachi?

Three scary questions that keep Pakistanis up at night.

BY SHAMILA N. CHAUDHARY | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

So Much for the Good War

It's time to admit that Obama's Afghanistan strategy is a total failure.

BY ARIF RAFIQ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Nobody Told Asia About The End of Men

Mara Hvistendahl takes on Hanna Rosin.

BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Buddhism Problem

Why isn't Burma's democracy icon speaking up for minorities -- and against her country's nationalistic, racist, xenophobic, and occasionally violent Buddhist majority?

BY WILLIAM MCGOWAN | SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Subcontinental Divide

Why India will disappoint both the United States and China.

BY C. RAJA MOHAN | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Delhi Laughs

The heavy-handed political cartoons that have India's government hot under the collar.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

India, Meet Icarus

Why no one should be surprised that the emerging economic superpower is getting cut back down to size.

BY PETER PASSELL | SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

State of Terror

Why Obama should blacklist Pakistan -- not just the Haqqanis.

BY C. CHRISTINE FAIR | SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Skateboarding in Kabul

Half-pipes and headscarves in the Hindu Kush.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012