Pakistan Pal

India is the first stop on President Obama’s trip to Asian democracies—the others being Japan and Indonesia.

With both conducting active operations against a common enemy the US and Pakistan are into an alliance that is without a doubt strategic.

With the U.S.-Pakistani strategic dialogue resuming in Washington today, the relationship could hardly be worse.

The recent closure of NATO logistic routes through Pakistan in response to US cross border attacks has high-lighted the enormous opportunity lost by Pakistan.

Just when it seemed that things could not get worse, they do. One would have thought that conditions in Pakistan were at a nadir along with its relationships with the US. But last week, several incidents lowered even that bar.

Bob Woodwards’---The Obama Wars—has made waves. Its most fascinating facet is the investigative and obviously well researched insight into the top level decision making process.

For there to be any meaningful change there first has to be a meaningful discourse on what needs to be changed and why so. There is currently, however, a wide chasm between actual discussion of reforms in our legal and judicial system...

In the last three months, the Indian security apparatus has gone completely haywire, killing approximately one Kashmiri a day in the most recent spate of violence that hit the conflict-prone region.

In Pakistan and the catastrophic flooding that literally is drowning an entire nation, could things get much worse?

Three deadly bomb attacks within a week. One in the north west, one in the south west and one in the center of Pakistan---all in urban areas with human lives as the target to terrorize and destabilize a country reeling under the political, economic..