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The Valley’s Edge

The South Asia Channel
Michael Waltz
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Extrication Negotiations

The United States is ready to start talking to the Taliban about a peace deal again. But nothing's going to happen without Pakistan.

Terms of Engagement
James Traub
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Columbia drone report misses the target

The South Asia Channel
Meg Braun
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Plight of Pakistan’s Shi’a minority

The South Asia Channel
Beenish Ahmed
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The Cult of Massoud

How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.

Feature
James Verini
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The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan: Down but not out

The South Asia Channel
Christopher Anzalone
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Did the Afghan surge work?

Stephen M. Walt
Stephen M. Walt
Taliban accidentally CCs everybody on its mailing list

Passport
Uri Friedman
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Malala and the MQM

The South Asia Channel
Uzma Kolsy
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For Obama, a second chance in South Asia

The South Asia Channel
Shuja Nawaz
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Virtuous cycles in Afghan north

The South Asia Channel
J Alexander Thier
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Appraising al-Qaeda: The practitioner’s perspective

The South Asia Channel
Raffaello Pantucci
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Giving Afghanistan a fighting chance

The South Asia Channel
Ali A. Riazi
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Counting civilian casualties in CIA’s drone war

The South Asia Channel
Meg Braun
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Afghanistan’s need for reform: We have seen the enemy, and it is our anecdotes

The South Asia Channel
Frances Z. Brown

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