David Sterman


David Sterman is a program associate at New America and Assistant Editor of the South Asia Channel. He tweets at @DSterms
Articles by David Sterman
TO GO WITH AFP STORY PAKISTAN-EU-WTO-TRADE-WAIVER,FOCUS by Hasan Mansoor
This picture taken on May 14, 2010, shows Pakistani employees working at a textile factory in Karachi. Experts say rising global commodity prices, a government decision to prioritise power supply to industry and currency devaluation has made Pakistani products more competitive and started an export boom. The textiles sector is one of the key drivers of the Pakistani economy, accounting for 55 percent of all exports and 38 percent of the workforce, according to official figures. AFP PHOTO/RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
TO GO WITH AFP STORY PAKISTAN-EU-WTO-TRADE-WAIVER,FOCUS by Hasan Mansoor This picture taken on May 14, 2010, shows Pakistani employees working at a textile factory in Karachi. Experts say rising global commodity prices, a government decision to prioritise power supply to industry and currency devaluation has made Pakistani products more competitive and started an export boom. The textiles sector is one of the key drivers of the Pakistani economy, accounting for 55 percent of all exports and 38 percent of the workforce, according to official figures. AFP PHOTO/RIZWAN TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
Two US Airforce grounstaff inspect a F-16 fighter jet at the Bagram Airbase in the Parwan province, some 50 kms north of Kabul on August 10, 2009. The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the Taliban have gained the upper hand in the country, forcing the United States to change its strategy by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas, The Wall Street Journal reported.   AFP PHOTO/  MANAN VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
Two US Airforce grounstaff inspect a F-16 fighter jet at the Bagram Airbase in the Parwan province, some 50 kms north of Kabul on August 10, 2009. The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the Taliban have gained the upper hand in the country, forcing the United States to change its strategy by increasing the number of troops in heavily populated areas, The Wall Street Journal reported. AFP PHOTO/ MANAN VATSYAYANA (Photo credit should read MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
The damaged interior of the hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, the medical charity has warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
The damaged interior of the hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, the medical charity has warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
US soldiers arrive at the scene following a suicide car bomb attack on a European Union police vehicle along the Kabul-Jalalabad road in Kabul on January 5, 2015. A suicide car bomb hit a European Union police vehicle in Kabul on January 5, killing at least one passer-by but not injuring any of the passengers, officials said, days after the NATO combat mission ended in Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO / Wakil KOHSAR        (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
US soldiers arrive at the scene following a suicide car bomb attack on a European Union police vehicle along the Kabul-Jalalabad road in Kabul on January 5, 2015. A suicide car bomb hit a European Union police vehicle in Kabul on January 5, killing at least one passer-by but not injuring any of the passengers, officials said, days after the NATO combat mission ended in Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO / Wakil KOHSAR (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photograph taken on October 8, 2015, Afghan security forces stand guard at the main gate of the prison (on which it is written "General Directorate of Prison Centre of Kunduz Province) after retaking Kunduz from the Taliban, in Kunduz.  Thirty-three people are still missing five days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, Doctors Without Borders warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly.  AFP PHOTO / Nasir WAQIF        (Photo credit should read NASIR WAQIF/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photograph taken on October 8, 2015, Afghan security forces stand guard at the main gate of the prison (on which it is written "General Directorate of Prison Centre of Kunduz Province) after retaking Kunduz from the Taliban, in Kunduz. Thirty-three people are still missing five days after a US air strike on an Afghan hospital, Doctors Without Borders warned, sparking fears the death toll could rise significantly. AFP PHOTO / Nasir WAQIF (Photo credit should read NASIR WAQIF/AFP/Getty Images)
A burnt-out police pick-up truck stands in the street after Afghan security forces retook control of Kunduz city from the Taliban militants in northeastern Kunduz province, on October 1, 2015.  Afghan forces retook control of the strategic northern city of Kunduz on October 1 after a three-day Taliban occupation that dealt a stinging blow to the country's NATO-trained military.    AFP PHOTO        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A burnt-out police pick-up truck stands in the street after Afghan security forces retook control of Kunduz city from the Taliban militants in northeastern Kunduz province, on October 1, 2015. Afghan forces retook control of the strategic northern city of Kunduz on October 1 after a three-day Taliban occupation that dealt a stinging blow to the country's NATO-trained military. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan military personnel stand guard near the airport during fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Kunduz on October 1, 2015. Afghan forces pushed into the centre of Kunduz on October 1, triggering pitched gunfights as they sought to flush out Taliban insurgents who held the northern city for three days in a stinging blow to the country's NATO-trained military The stunning fall of the provincial capital, even temporarily, highlighted the stubborn insurgency's potential to expand beyond its rural strongholds in the south of the country Afghan forces, hindered by the slow arrival of reinforcements but backed by NATO special forces and US air support, struggled to regain control of the city after three days of heavy fighting. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar        (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan military personnel stand guard near the airport during fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces in Kunduz on October 1, 2015. Afghan forces pushed into the centre of Kunduz on October 1, triggering pitched gunfights as they sought to flush out Taliban insurgents who held the northern city for three days in a stinging blow to the country's NATO-trained military The stunning fall of the provincial capital, even temporarily, highlighted the stubborn insurgency's potential to expand beyond its rural strongholds in the south of the country Afghan forces, hindered by the slow arrival of reinforcements but backed by NATO special forces and US air support, struggled to regain control of the city after three days of heavy fighting. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian protestors shout slogans during a demonstration to condemn the lynching and murder of an Indian Muslim, in Mumbai on October 6, 2015.   50-year-old, Mohammad Akhlaq was dragged from his house September 29, 2015 on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi and attacked by a Hindu mob over rumours that he had stored and eaten beef.  AFP PHOTO / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE        (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian protestors shout slogans during a demonstration to condemn the lynching and murder of an Indian Muslim, in Mumbai on October 6, 2015. 50-year-old, Mohammad Akhlaq was dragged from his house September 29, 2015 on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi and attacked by a Hindu mob over rumours that he had stored and eaten beef. AFP PHOTO / INDRANIL MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images)
General Director of Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Christopher Stokes arrives for a press conference at the MSF office in the Afghan captial Kabul on October 8, 2015. US President Barack Obama on October 7 apologised to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital, as the medical charity demanded an international investigation. Three separate probes -- by the US military, NATO and Afghan officials -- are under way into the catastrophic strike in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on October 3 which left 22 people dead. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar        (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
General Director of Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Christopher Stokes arrives for a press conference at the MSF office in the Afghan captial Kabul on October 8, 2015. US President Barack Obama on October 7 apologised to Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for a deadly US air strike on an Afghan hospital, as the medical charity demanded an international investigation. Three separate probes -- by the US military, NATO and Afghan officials -- are under way into the catastrophic strike in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on October 3 which left 22 people dead. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan children who work as water vendors search for customers at the Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul on January 12, 2015. Thousands of victims of the country's civil war which raged from 1992 to 1996 are buried in cemetries across the Afghan capital. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai        (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan children who work as water vendors search for customers at the Kart-e-Sakhi cemetery in Kabul on January 12, 2015. Thousands of victims of the country's civil war which raged from 1992 to 1996 are buried in cemetries across the Afghan capital. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Joanne Liu , international president of Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), speaks during a press conference in Geneva on October 7, 2015, on the bombing by US forces of a hospital of the medical charity in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 22 people. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI        (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
Joanne Liu , international president of Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), speaks during a press conference in Geneva on October 7, 2015, on the bombing by US forces of a hospital of the medical charity in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which killed 22 people. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)
Thirteen year-old wounded Afghan boy, Nooruddin, a survivor of the US airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Hospital in Kunduz, receives treatment at the Italian aid organization, Emergency's hospital in Kabul on October 6, 2015.    Afghan forces called in a US air strike on a Kunduz hospital that killed 22 people, the top American commander in Afghanistan said October 5, 2015, after medical charity MSF branded the incident a war crime.  AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar        (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Thirteen year-old wounded Afghan boy, Nooruddin, a survivor of the US airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Hospital in Kunduz, receives treatment at the Italian aid organization, Emergency's hospital in Kabul on October 6, 2015. Afghan forces called in a US air strike on a Kunduz hospital that killed 22 people, the top American commander in Afghanistan said October 5, 2015, after medical charity MSF branded the incident a war crime. AFP PHOTO / Wakil Kohsar (Photo credit should read WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images)
To go with Afghanistan unrest Taliban refugees,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra
In this photograph taken on May 21, 2015, shows an Afghan child receiving treatment at an Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in the northern city of Kunduz, after being wounded in a fight between the Taliban and Afghan security forces. Civilians are bearing the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive in Kunduz province, the keystone of the Taliban's summer fighting season which is expected to be the bloodiest in a decade.   AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai        (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
To go with Afghanistan unrest Taliban refugees,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra In this photograph taken on May 21, 2015, shows an Afghan child receiving treatment at an Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in the northern city of Kunduz, after being wounded in a fight between the Taliban and Afghan security forces. Civilians are bearing the brunt of a large-scale insurgent offensive in Kunduz province, the keystone of the Taliban's summer fighting season which is expected to be the bloodiest in a decade. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani workers prepare solar energy light panels on a road divider in Islamabad on February 2, 2014. The country faces an electricity shortfall of around 4,000 megawatts in the sweltering summer, leading to lengthy blackouts that can make the lives of the population a misery and have strangled economic growth. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI        (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Pakistani workers prepare solar energy light panels on a road divider in Islamabad on February 2, 2014. The country faces an electricity shortfall of around 4,000 megawatts in the sweltering summer, leading to lengthy blackouts that can make the lives of the population a misery and have strangled economic growth. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)