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An Army with a State: Pakistan’s Serial Praetorians
Two states were born at the stroke of midnight on August 14th 1947 from the twilight of the British Raj in the…
A Girl In the River: Oscar-Winning Film to Create Change…
On the night of the 88th Academy Awards, director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy took home an Oscar for her film, A Girl…
Afghanistan’s Opium Solution
For fourteen years, beginning in 2001, the U.S. fought a war on two fronts in Afghanistan: one to destroy the…
What Do We Do With Disaster? Remembering the…
Nearly two weeks ago, on October 26th, Afghanistan was hit by an earthquake. The earthquake, falling between 7.5…
The Burmese Experiment
To paraphrase Rudyard Kipling, Burma is quite unlike any place you know about.1 The country has a tumultuous…
Three Brothers: The Pakistan-Afghanistan-India Rivalry
Pakistani-Afghan relations are a “complex and complicated nexus” that have produced seemingly self-defeating…