Word: regionality
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...chart accompanying Bobby Ghosh's article [Feb. 16]. Pakistan's main concern is oblivion. The incursions and drone attacks in the country's tribal belt fuel antagonism and hatred toward the U.S. Richard Holbrooke needs to evolve a strategy that leads to a stabilization of the region. Indian intransigence toward a resolution of the Kashmir conflict needs to be redressed. Indeed, that is the tougher challenge that Holbrooke will confront: persuading New Delhi to shelve its chauvinism and its knee-jerk finger-pointing at Pakistan. This weakens both civilian democracy here and the will of the soldiers engaged...
It’s that time of year—winter is staging a last stand, the United States and South Korea are playing their yearly war games, and North Korea is threatening the region. This time, though, Kim Jong-Il’s rogue state forces us to ask whether it is merely crying wolf again. With more pressing issues on its plate, the United States can not cater to North Korea’s pouting...
...were horrified at how many of his fellow Afghans have been left stranded as illegals in nearby Calais since a refugee center there was closed on Sarkozy's orders in 2002. Tusa also says that the decades of economic hardship Tourcoing and other northern cities have suffered since the region's textile and coal mining industries collapsed have made residents more compassionate towards Hassanzade and those like...
...Sort of School Where that angry scene ends, Qasab's confession seems to pick up. According to the document, Qasab fled his family in 2005 for Ali Hajveri Darbar, a shrine in Lahore dedicated to the memory of a Sufi saint who took Islam to the region through his example of love, charity and direct communication with God. It was a place, Qasab says, where "boys who had run away from their houses are kept." The shrine doesn't have sleeping quarters, says volunteer caretaker Muhammad Soheil, but "many people stay in the nearby area and come here to take...
...resident of Bahawalpur describes a visible expansion of jihadi infrastructure, unchecked by government supervision. Camps modeled on the one at Muridke are being built in the city, and photographs of the construction sites show young men with AK-47 logos on their shirts. Graffiti on village walls in the region declare, "Jihad against unbelievers is mandatory. Break their necks and shake every bone...