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List of Pakistan articles

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    Have What it Takes to be in Al Qaeda? Apply here.

    Al Qaeda's job application in very traditional, but contains questions that hint at the chilling work the job entails.

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    Here’s Osama Bin Laden’s Letter to the American People

    Osama bin Laden promised endless war in a newly declassified letter to the American people.

  • 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)

    Put Climate Change on the Agenda for India-Pakistan Relations

    Why India and Pakistan need to work together on climate change before it's too late.

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    Film Depicting Prophet Mohammed That Sparked 2012 Riots Can Go Back Online

    A federal court ruled Google can post a video that caused anti-U.S. riots in 2012. Whether the tech giant does remains to be seen.

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    ‘Good Kill,’ Bad Movie

    Ethan Hawke and director Andrew Niccol talk to FP about their new movie on drones. Too bad it gets so much wrong.

  • Pakistani children sit on a tank as they enjoy the park during a public holiday ahead of National Day celebration in Rawalpindi on March 22, 2015.  AFP PHOTO / Farooq NAEEM        (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistani children sit on a tank as they enjoy the park during a public holiday ahead of National Day celebration in Rawalpindi on March 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO / Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)

    Democratize Pakistan’s Youth

    Most of Pakistan's population is under 29. Pakistan needs to engage them in the democratic process through student government associations in colleges.

  • Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1, 2011 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad.  AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistani media personnel and local residents gather outside the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1, 2011 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

    What Pakistan Knew About the Bin Laden Raid

    As Islamabad’s ambassador to Washington, I had an intimate view of the Pakistani response to the SEAL Team 6 operation. But I still have a few unanswered questions.

  • Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz (R) arrives with Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad on May 6, 2015.   Julie Bishop arrived in Islamabad to meet with Pakistani government officials. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI        (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistan's National Security Advisor Sartaj Aziz (R) arrives with Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad on May 6, 2015. Julie Bishop arrived in Islamabad to meet with Pakistani government officials. AFP PHOTO / AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Australia’s New Equation for Pakistan

    Do two diplomatic visits and one big investment package from China add up to a new Australian perspective on Pakistan?

  • Pakistani journalists hold placards and photographs bearing the image of Geo television journalist Hamid Mir during a protest against the attack on Mir by gunmen in Islamabad on April 23, 2014. Pakistan's defence ministry has asked for the country's top-rating television channel to be shut down after it broadcast allegations blaming an intelligence agency for shooting a leading journalist, officials said. The move comes after Geo aired claims that Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency was behind the shooting of prominent anchor Hamid Mir in Karachi on April 19, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI        (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistani journalists hold placards and photographs bearing the image of Geo television journalist Hamid Mir during a protest against the attack on Mir by gunmen in Islamabad on April 23, 2014. Pakistan's defence ministry has asked for the country's top-rating television channel to be shut down after it broadcast allegations blaming an intelligence agency for shooting a leading journalist, officials said. The move comes after Geo aired claims that Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency was behind the shooting of prominent anchor Hamid Mir in Karachi on April 19, 2014. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Publish At Your Peril

    South Asia remains one of the most repressed regions for journalists and by governments muzzling the freedoms of the press, the region’s democratic gains are in jeopardy.

  • Pakistani security personnel measure a wall outside the hideout house of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistani security personnel measure a wall outside the hideout house of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following his death by US Special Forces in a ground operation in Abbottabad on May 3, 2011. The bullet-riddled Pakistani villa that hid Osama bin Laden from the world was put under police control, as media sought to glimpse the debris left by the US raid that killed him. Bin Laden's hideout had been kept under tight army control after the dramatic raid by US special forces late May 1 in the affluent suburbs of Abbottabad, a garrison city 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Islamabad. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

    Obama Administration: Hersh Account of Bin Laden Raid ‘Patently False’

    Current and former officials flatly deny journalist's assertions of grand U.S.-Pakistani conspiracy.

  • Pakistani army Mi-17 helicopters fly during a rehearsal for the National Day celebrations, in Islamabad on March 20, 2015. A joint military parade of Pakistan's armed forces will take place on Pakistan Day which falls on March 23, after a gap of seven years.  AFP PHOTO / Farooq NAEEM        (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)
    Pakistani army Mi-17 helicopters fly during a rehearsal for the National Day celebrations, in Islamabad on March 20, 2015. A joint military parade of Pakistan's armed forces will take place on Pakistan Day which falls on March 23, after a gap of seven years. AFP PHOTO / Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)

    Taliban Take Credit for Fatal Pakistani Helicopter Crash

    A helicopter crash killed seven in Pakistan on Friday, and now the Taliban is taking credit for it.

  • Ethnic Uighurs gather on Id Kah Square after Friday prayer in the nearby  main mosque on August 8, 2008  in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities announced stepped up controls on religious figures and potential "trouble-makers" in the Muslim city of Kashgar to guard against attacks on the Beijing Olympics which open today following the deadly attack that killed 16 police officers and a new threat by separatists from China's far northwest Xinjiang region to attack the Games. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)
    Ethnic Uighurs gather on Id Kah Square after Friday prayer in the nearby main mosque on August 8, 2008 in Xinjiang's famed Silk Road city of Kashgar in China's far northwestern, mainly Muslim Xinjiang region. Chinese authorities announced stepped up controls on religious figures and potential "trouble-makers" in the Muslim city of Kashgar to guard against attacks on the Beijing Olympics which open today following the deadly attack that killed 16 police officers and a new threat by separatists from China's far northwest Xinjiang region to attack the Games. AFP PHOTO/Peter PARKS (Photo credit should read PETER PARKS/AFP/Getty Images)

    Interactive Map: Follow the Roads, Railways, and Pipelines on China’s New Silk Road

    Beijing's multi-billion dollar integration project aims to connect China to Europe with a network of roads, railways, pipelines.

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    Pakistan has the oddest civ-mil relations in the world, but China runs close behind

    Pakistan’s military basically doesn’t even pretend that it is subordinate to anybody. And it seems to threaten anyone who criticizes it.

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    Pakistan Will Disappoint Saudi Arabia

    Why when Saudi Arabia comes calling, it should be prepared for Pakistan to disappoint.

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    Diversionary Tactics

    The Taliban's offensive in Kunduz province is a diversion that will serve to distract the Afghan army away from the real goal -- Helmand province.

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