Pakistan’s post‑9/11 Afghan policy: A Political Audit

Rafi Ullah Kakar Ten years on, the events of 9/11 and the result­ing ‘War on Ter­ror’ have trans­formed the polit­i­cal land­scape of South Asia in pro­found and dra­mat­ic ways. As the US unsheathed its sword and pre­pared to invade Afghanistan in the after­math of the attacks, Pak­istan, giv­en its impor­tant geo-strate­g­ic loca­tion and record of […]

‘Reconciliation’ By Benazir Bhutto (Excerpt)

The stakes could not have been high­er. Pak­istan under mil­i­tary dic­ta­tor­ship had become the epi­cen­ter of an inter­na­tion­al ter­ror­ist move­ment that had two pri­ma­ry aims. First, the extrem­ists’ aim to recon­sti­tute the con­cept of the caliphate, a polit­i­cal state encom­pass­ing the great Ummah (Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty) pop­u­la­tions of the world, unit­ing the Mid­dle East, the Per­sian […]