List of Pakistan articles
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Pakistan Army Chief of Staff General Raheel Sharif gestures after arriving at Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake near Colombo on June 5, 2015. General Sharif is on a four-day official visit to Sri Lanka. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) The General’s Shot at Improving U.S.-Pakistan Relations
With Pakistani military chief General Raheel Sharif's visit to Washington, it’s time for the United States and Pakistan to get real about the tough issues.
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BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - APRIL 30: Muslims fleeing from capital Bangui to Kaga-Bandoro (market town, It is situated 245km north of the capital Bangui), under the protection of members of the Multinational Force of Central Africa (MISCA) in Bangui, Central African Republic on April 29, 2014. (Photo by Nacer Telal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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A Pakistan policeman stands guard as a member of a polio vaccination team administers drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi on February 23, 2014. Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world where the crippling virus is still endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images) The Polio Capital of the World
Pakistan's Army and Lady Health Workers are at the center of the global effort to eradicate polio. How successful have they been?
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GettyImages-467330528 Washington Doesn’t Help Pakistani Democracy
U.S. policy toward Islamabad exacerbates Pakistan’s widening civil-military imbalance.
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A Pakistani protester sets fire to a US flag during a demonstration in Islamabad on November 30, 2011 against the cross-border NATO air strike on Pakistani troops. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton led calls on Pakistan to reconsider boycotting talks on Afghanistan, but stopped short of apologising for the deaths of 24 soldiers in NATO strikes. The Pakistani cabinet took the decision in protest against the November 26 attack in the mountains on the Afghan-Pakistani border, the worst cross-border assault by US-led NATO troops in 10 years of war in Afghanistan. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QUREHSI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) The Ties That Bind
The meeting between Obama and Sharif is unlikely to offer a new thinking. But it is a chance to be honest about what can be achieved in the latest juncture of America’s longest war.
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AAAGettyImages-483943432 The Definition of Insanity Is U.S. AfPak Strategy
The central problem confronting the United States in the region is no longer al Qaeda or the Taliban. It’s the Pakistan Army.
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Refugees from Afghanistan arrive in a boat on the shores of Lesbos near Skala Skamnias, Greece on June 2, 2015. Lesbos, the Greek vacation island in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, faces massive refugee flows from the Middle East countries. Women and children are seen at the beaches and the cities of Lesbos, exhausted after the trip over the Aegean Sea. Some children are even born on the flight from war. Last week alone over 2500 refugees arrived on the island, where they will be registred by Greek authorities. After registration most refugees are left on their own. AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX DENMARK / SOEREN BIDSTRUP +++ DENMARK OUT (Photo credit should read SOEREN BIDSTRUP/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Fears an Afghan ‘Brain Drain’ as Taliban Surge Sparks Mass Exodus to Europe
A top U.N. official told Foreign Policy Tuesday that without increased support, Afghanistan risks spiraling into an even worse humanitarian crisis.
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Afghan security forces stand over a body of a Taliban militant after fighting between Taliban militants and Afghan security forces near the airport 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) The Taliban Are Winning
And the taking of Kunduz was just a dry run for the eventual attack on Kabul.
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LAHORE, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN - 2015/01/31: Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Chief minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif and Chief of Army staff General Raheel Sharif attended the passing out parade first batch of 421 Corporals, including 16 women, have successfully completed their training Counter Terrorism Force(CTF) at Elite Police Training School in Lahore. The new force -the first of its kind- has been given special training on how to counter terrorism by Pakistans Army. The first batch of the Punjab Elite Police Force (PEPF) completed their nine month long training course in the fields of investigation, intelligence and special operations. (Photo by Rana Sajid Hussain/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) Sharif Versus the Military?
Does Nawaz Sharif control his own country or does the military?
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Afghan fishermen paddle rubber rafts into the Kabul River to fish on the outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar Province on April 10, 2014. Leading candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election voiced concern that voting was tainted by fraud after millions defied Taliban threats and turned out to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai. World leaders praised the courage of Afghan voters, who cast their ballots in force despite bad weather and the violent campaign of intimidation, and urged patience in the long vote count. AFP PHOTO / Noorullah SHIRZADA (Photo credit should read Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images) Trust Isn’t The Only Problem In AfPak Relations
Afghanistan and Pakistan have more issues beyond the trust gap. Water, India, and the border all drag down bilateral relations.
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Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (C) inspects the indigenously manufactured surveillance drone at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex in Kamra, some 65 km west of Islamabad on December 18, 2013, as Pakistani air chief Tahir Rafique Butt (R) and army chief Raheel Sharif (L) look on. Pakistan on December 18 launched production of a new version of a combat aircraft featuring upgraded avionics and weapons system. The plane, to be called Block-II JF-17, will be manufactured at the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex west of Islamabad, which has so far produced 50 older-model Block-I JF-17s for the air force. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) Watching Kunduz Collapse From the Sidelines
The fall of Kunduz jeopardizes Pakistan's quest for internal stability.
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A police officer restrains a man (C) arrested during an anti-parallel trading protest in the Yuen Long district of Hong Kong on March 1, 2015. Scuffles broke out on March 1 between protesters demonstrating against so-called parallel traders, who buy products in Hong Kong and sell them back on the mainland for a profit, and anti-protesters. AFP PHOTO / ANTHONY WALLACE (Photo credit should read ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP/Getty Images) Longform’s Picks of the Week
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BEIJING, CHINA - NOVEMBER 12: Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) accompanies U.S. President Barack Obama (R) to view an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People on November 12, 2014 in Beijing, China. U.S. President Barack Obama pays a state visit to China after attending the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting. (Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images) China Has a Plan to Take Over Eurasia — and America Loves It
An FP special report from the front lines of Beijing's aggressive push into Pakistan and beyond.
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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) poses with Chinese President Xi Jinping upon arrival for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit banquet at the Beijing National Aquatics Center in the Chinese capital on November 10, 2014. Top leaders and ministers of the 21-member APEC grouping are meeting in Beijing from November 7 to 11. AFP PHOTO/Greg BAKER (Photo credit should read GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images) Facebook’s ‘Dislike’ Button Is Going to Get a Lot of Use in Asia
When it comes to being friends and playing nice in Asia, there’s not a lot of love to go around.
