The road to Kabul runs through Kashmir

16 years ago

only by getting India and Pakistan working together in Afghanistan will the problem be soluble

And Petraeus channels Petraeus

16 years ago

transition plan...bears a distinct resemblance to the Iraq phase-out

Karzai channels Maliki

16 years ago

Afghanistan President Karzai, in an interview published this morning in the Washington Post, asks for a reduced U.S. military presence…

Suu Kyi free–will it bring change?

16 years ago

Confident of its hold on power due to dubious elections November 7, the Burmese regime has freed dissident leader Aung…

A negotiated solution for Abyei?

16 years ago

Voter registration for the South Sudan referendum on independence January 9 starts Monday and extends until December 1.  Preparations are…

Flood of Afpak reports begins

16 years ago

Clear a shelf: the flood of reports on Afghanistan and Pakistan has only just begun

Slo-mo train wreck

16 years ago

I've been hesitating to comment on the "Middle East peace process," but I guess there comes a point at which…

Still getting ready to sing

16 years ago

Anti-Kurd hardliner Osama al Nujaifi has been elected Speaker of the parliament in Baghdad, but then he and the rest…

The Balkans can still be lost

16 years ago

The International Herald Tribute surprised me yesterday by publishing a piece I did a couple of weeks ago with Soren…

The scruffily bearded guy gets ready to sing

16 years ago

Maliki and Allawi have at long last apparently cut a deal putting Allawi's  people in as speaker of the parliament…