When the world looks at Pakistan, its attention justifiably focuses on the rugged northern border with Afghanistan, a nexus of Taliban activity and the site of an ongoing multi-pronged campaign ...

This is as much a problem of psychology as policy. Few nations are as paranoid as Pakistan–where it is a widespread belief that India is behind every setback, that the United States plans to seize ...

Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep has been in Pakistan this week for NPR's series on South Asia's Grand Trunk Road. Michele Norris speaks with him from Islamabad about local reaction to the ...

The recent terrorist attacks in Pakistan are not isolated security incidents. They represent a more profound change in the character and scope of violence that the state has been facing. Suicide ...

(Reuters) - The foreign secretaries of India and Pakistan will meet in New Delhi Thursday to resume official contacts which India broke off after militants attacked the Indian city of Mumbai in late ...

Things are pretty calm in India. Its recent election of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh means that the world’s largest democracy will once again be led by a seasoned economist. And it all happened ...

In diplomacy, perception is everything. The day that Pakistan’s new prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani was sworn in this week, two top American diplomats were there from Washington to congratulate him.

The series loss against Bangladesh once again shows there is immense lack of young talent in Pakistan cricket.

Pakistan’s recurring struggles against India are not rooted in nerves or talent but in a persistent lack of role clarity.

And I think the problem is there is no good or bad Taliban. The Taliban are fundamentally a movement that threatens the survival of Pakistan. Now we may not see a collapse in Pakistan any time soon, ...

The Bush administration has paid Pakistan more than $2 billion without adequate proof that the Pakistani government used the funds for their intended purpose of supporting U.S. counterterrorism ...

AS CONCERN BUILDS within Washington’s political, military, and intelligence circles over the rise of the Taliban and al Qaeda in northwestern Pakistan, the search for a proper policy to deal with the ...