Baluchistan is a place that desperately needs lawyers.

Pakistan's largest province by area, it is the home of a decades-old separatist insurgency, fueled by real grievances over neglect and lack of political representation. It is also increasingly the target of Sunni extremists, who bomb and kill its Shiite minorities. What leaders the province has ( Read more... )

The Bowe Bergdahl Controversy Could Be Politics At Its Very Worst


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Pakistani Girl, a Global Heroine After an Attack, Has Critics at Home


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We must ask complex questions and be willing to handle equally complicated answers.

As sad and horrific as it is, when the media exploits the tragic shooting of a child to rally support for an overly simplified political position, you know something is wrong. Reality is always more complex-and loathing the Taliban is fast becoming idiomatic ( Read more... )

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Pakistani Taliban Declare War on MediaMalala Yousafzai has taken one more step in her very long and difficult journey. Separated from her family for now, the 14-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl arrived today at Birmingham’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Britain’s primary receiving facility for military casualties returning from overseas. Doctors say she ( Read more... )

After the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan shot 14-year old Malala Yusufzai for encouraging girls’ education, Pakistan’s liberal intelligentsia and the Western media went into overdrive.

You’d think that if it weren’t for the Taliban shooting at them, millions of girls in Pakistan would be sitting in school, and that if you’re not endorsing American drone ( Read more... )

(Reuters) - Taliban gunmen in Pakistan shot and seriously wounded on Tuesday a 14-year-old schoolgirl who rose to fame for speaking out against the militants, authorities said.

Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head and neck when gunmen fired on her school bus in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Two other girls were also wounded ( Read more... )

Three years ago, a 23-year-old soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he’s a crucial pawn in negotiations to end the war. Will the Pentagon leave a man behind?

The mother and father sit at the kitchen table in their Idaho farmhouse, watching their son on YouTube plead for his life. The Taliban captured 26- ( Read more... )