South Asia: Economics of Security
President Obama's trip to India underscored India's importance in global security and global finances – a democratic counter to an aggressive China. But India's poor foreign policy and botched...
In the Pakistani province of Balochistan, South Asia and central Asia bleed into the Middle East.
DEHLI, INDIA --I wrote over a month ago of a prevalent strain of India-skepticism that focuses on its rampant poverty.
The elephant in the room of my reporting on security issues within India and Pakistan is the messy, insecure relationship between them. The components of that relationship will be familiar to...
In my reporting, I often hear that the major threat to India's security is the unevenness of its development.
Even with near-daily terrorist attacks claiming 2,000 civilian lives last year and the frontier war against radicals taking an additional 1,000, most Pakistanis are not focused on the jihadis.
For Pakistan, the aughts did not go out quietly, marked by
Washington has lately become concerned that Pakistan is dragging its feet in the fight against the Taliban because it sees the Islamists as a check on its archrival, India, whose influence in Afgha
As I've written previously, the Pakistani government has been taking some heat.
The other day, I posted an interview with Gallup's Pakistan chief, Dr.
When I started on this trip, I planned to post 1-2 videos a week. For the first month, that's not been possible, because Islamabad has pretty much outlawed videotaping anywhere in the city.
Political reformers in Pakistan have long argued that economic growth would bring about a decline in the militancy that today threatens to tear the country apart.
It's been a big week here in Islamabad. First off, there have two more bomb attacks, one at the naval compound down the street from where I am staying and one out in Pindi, the next town over.
When Americans hear about violence in Pakistan, they think mostly of the Taliban or of jihadis on the Kashmir border.
I'm settled, at last, in Islamabad, and trying to get my head around the transformation afoot here. Certainly, the country has come a long way since I was last here in 2005.
Today, I'm starting on a four-month project to report on the "economics of security," the relationship of economic concerns to political (in)stability in South Asia.
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Maha Atal has been writing on business, economic policy and South Asia since 2005. Her work has appeared in BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune, the New Statesman, the ...