Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
For more than two years Pakistan's civilian government has withstood the challenges of a virulent insurgency, economic crisis, and the pressures of U.S. counterinsurgency operations. While civilian rule has endured, Pakistan's military remains a powerful political influence.
The odds that the United States will fulfill India's request to extradite former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson over the Bhopal gas tragedy twenty-five years ago are not high.
India and the United States share common values which contribute to a natural bond between the world’s largest democracy and the world’s oldest one. While the two countries may disagree on specific issues, such as patenting intellectual property, both face large challenges that can only be solved by science.
President Obama has placed a greater emphasis on the need for a regional approach to Afghanistan. Leading experts analyze what a regional strategy would mean in practice through the eyes of key states, including Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and India, and what it could mean for U.S. policy.
Pakistan's support of terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba has stymied the India-Pakistan peace process, hindered U.S.-Pakistan relations, and threatens to undermine any attempts to create stability in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has not taken the necessary steps to dismantle the terrorist group which perpetrated the Mumbai attacks, Lashkar-e-Tayiba, whose network is spreading beyond South Asia and which poses a particular threat to India.
Continued Pakistani support for the terrorist group Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT) threatens to undermine the delicate peace between nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan and plunge the region into conflict, with significant consequences for American interests abroad.
Haider Mullick, a fellow at the Joint Special Operations University and the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, examined Pakistan's counterinsurgency strategy as well as U.S.-Pakistan relations.
American assistance to India should not be conditioned principally on notions of strict or specific reciprocity. Supporting India is in the larger geopolitical interest of the United States.
Although many in India have claimed that their prime minister’s November trip to Washington was a disappointment, the summit was successful in demonstrating U.S. interest in strengthening its strategic partnership with India, and it built a foundation for further conversations.