Intervention
Fighting season
As everyone braces for a bloody summer, the new US administration has shaken up its top military command in Afghanistan. But is the continued focus on the military intervention still too predominant?
Aunohita Mojumdar | Jul 30, 2009
The only way forward
The killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti should be enough to tell the rest of Southasia and the world how Islamabad’s military rulers intend to maintain their grip on the resource-rich and long-suffering province of Balochistan.
Shakeel Iman | Oct 01, 2006
Degree of risk in Afghanistan
Demands by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan for 'Freedom, Democracy and Social Justice' remain as critical—and contentious—today as they were three decades ago.
Fatima Chowdhury | Jun 27, 2006
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