South Asia
Pakistan's Black Pearl
The hype about a Chinese-built port on the Arabian Sea says more about Islamabad's desperation than it does about Beijing's imperial ambitions.
BY URMILA VENUGOPALAN | JUNE 3, 2011
The Lost Villages
Saying goodbye to a once-friendly land, now taken without a fight by the Taliban.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | JUNE 3, 2011
The Hawks of South Asia
The dream of a lasting peace between Pakistan and India can't happen unless their militaries get out of the way.
BY BASHARAT PEER | MAY 31, 2011
You Can't Always Get What You Want
What Amazon.com and Netflix can teach us about fighting poverty.
BY DEAN KARLAN, JACOB APPEL | MAY 31, 2011
China's Port in Pakistan?
China's dream of Indian Ocean ports -- the so-called string of pearls -- is heightening geopolitical tensions in a rough neighborhood.
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | MAY 27, 2011
The Gul Under the Bed
Afghanistan needs to stop blaming a washed-up spymaster for all of its problems.
BY NAHEED MUSTAFA | MAY 23, 2011
No Need for Speed
Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011
Raging at Rawalpindi
American leaders are furious with Pakistan’s military in the wake of Osama bin Laden’s killing. But twisting arms will only backfire.
BY SHUJA NAWAZ | MAY 13, 2011
Trauma Center
How do you bring peace to a country where everyone has PTSD and the only therapy is prayer?
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 13, 2011
The Fight Goes On
In Afghanistan, bin Laden's dead and the Taliban don't care.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 11, 2011
Dear China: Help Us Fix Pakistan
The world's two superpowers must work together to fix the world's most broken country.
BY PATRICK C. DOHERTY | MAY 9, 2011
The Code of the Hills
It’s not Abbottabad the United States should be worried about.
BY AKBAR AHMED | MAY 6, 2011
Fatal Corruption
Why India's problems are too broad for even a Jasmine Revolution to root out.
BY ANUJ CHOPRA | MAY 3, 2011
Escaping from Afghanistan's Mad-Max Present
What Osama bin Laden's death means for South Asia's future.
BY ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER | MAY 3, 2011
The Lies They Tell Us
Can the Pakistani government's web of deceit survive the death of Osama bin Laden?
BY MOSHARRAF ZAIDI | MAY 2, 2011
Abbottabad: Bin Laden’s Final Home
Osama couldn't have picked a more unlikely place to hide out.
BY CAMERON ABADI | MAY 2, 2011
Out of Eden
Pre-modern lifestyles were fraught with violence, disease, and uncertainty. We should be happy that indigenous societies are increasingly leaving them behind.
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 26, 2011
Tiger Blood
Two years after its brutal counterinsurgency war ended, Sri Lanka faces new questions from the international community.
BY GORDON WEISS | APRIL 26, 2011
Three Cups of BS
Greg Mortenson's school-building plan was never a good idea.
BY ALANNA SHAIKH | APRIL 19, 2011
Khyber Impasse
How long can the United States and Pakistan keep pretending that they actually have any interests in common?
BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 15, 2011
Massacre in Mazar
The murdered U.N. workers are the latest trauma for a city that's seen centuries of horrific killings.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | APRIL 1, 2011
The Gorge of Many Sorrows
Every month, 40 Afghans are killed or injured by Soviet-era land mines. Meet two of them.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MARCH 25, 2011
The Civil War That Killed Cholera
Why the best ideas for fighting some diseases may come from poor countries, not rich ones.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 21, 2011
Living on Afghan Time
If you count out time in millennia, ending a 10-year war becomes a lot more complicated.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MARCH 21, 2011
The Drama in Delhi
India's government has been rocked by scandal after scandal. So why hasn't it fallen?
BY HENRY FOY | MARCH 18, 2011
The Tale of Forty Maidens
From ancient legend to last week, in Afghanistan, even a castle can't keep women safe.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MARCH 15, 2011
The Trouble With the BRICs
Why it's too soon to give Brazil and India permanent seats on the U.N. Security Council.
BY JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA | MARCH 14, 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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