Pakistán

Humorous situations, satirical observations, and philosophical reflections arise from the interactions between a British general manager of a bank, Mr. W.G.M. Anderson, and his protégé, Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi, an émigré from India, along with a diverse cast of characters....

In 2001, a 31-year-old Yemeni man was captured near the Pakistan border. After confessing to being Osama bin Laden's driver, he was transferred to Guantánamo Bay....

Pakistan is living proof that building up your economy and protecting your environment don’t have to be diametrically opposed. Other nations have much to learn from Pakistan’s initiatives – and from the perseverance of its people....

Srinagar in the winter of 1989 was an eerie ghost town witnessing the beginnings of a war dance. The dam burst the night JKLF boys were freed in exchange for the release of Rubaiya Sayeed....

J. Malcolm Garcia writes about impoverished families scraping by in Cairo’s city of the dead, ordinary Syrians pretending all is well as shells explode around them, and others caught in conflicts that rage long after the cameramen have packed up and gone away....

The Drone Incident centers on two men - miles apart geographically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally - whose lives collide in a dramatic confrontation....

What happens when a father asks his son to lie for the greater good? Growing up, Scott C. Johnson always suspected that his father was different....

Fourteen years ago Aasmaani's mother, Samina, a blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again....

In The Trade, Jere Van Dyk uses the sinuous path of his own 2008 kidnapping to explain the recent rise in the taking of Western hostages across the greater Middle East....

Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a devout Muslim in a family of Pakistani Muslims in England, but behind the front door, she was a caged butterfly. For many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home....

Musska is the story of a young boy born in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He was raised by his grandparents after his father was assassinated and his mother abandoned her family. His family flees the dangers of Kandahar and continues to move until they reach Karachi, Pakistan....

Terrorist leaders are not benevolent men inclined to make peace but vicious bullies. The IRA was the Islamic State of its day. Northern Ireland, Iraq, and Afghanistan are similar wars....

Forecast is a powerful, gracefully written, eye-opening account of this most urgent issue and how it has altered and will alter our world....

What is the moment, that exact moment when everything changes and the friends you have been, become the lovers you might be?....

The 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai offer a rare picture of the ties between Pakistan’s intelligence service and the militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba....

For Captain Don Headley of the SAS, the police antiterrorist exercise on the outskirts of Heathrow Airport was to have been just another training job....

India has been the location of many different empires throughout its long history. The Indus Valley Civilization was home to one of the world’s first civilizations more than 5,000 years ago, which was followed by the Aryan-Vedic culture....

Kashmir, Gujarat, and the Punjab: The Ancient and Modern History of India’s Politically Divided States on the Border with Pakistan examines the various regions, the different civilizations that lived there, and what took place there over the last 5,000 years....

It's 1947. The Indian subcontinent is partitioned into two separate countries, India and Pakistan. And with one decree, countless lives are changed forever....

As early as 2014, after the fall of Mosul, maps of ISIS showing a desire to take over South Asia started to appear on social media. One of the shortcomings of our understanding of ISIS in India is that neither the media nor the public discourse seems to know what ISIS itself is....