The U.S.-Pakistan Co-dependency

Adaner Usmani — 2012-03-14T07:57:57Z

As 2011 closed, the mainstream press was awash with ominous, dark assessments of the state of the relationship between the United States and Pakistan. After a cross-border NATO air strike in November resulted in the deaths of 24 Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan responded forcefully, closing the Af-Pak border to NATO traffic, expelling the U.S. military from an air base inside Pakistan,(1) and boycotting the International Conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, which had been tasked with outlining the next steps for the occupation.

- IV446 - March 2012 / United States (USA), Pakistan, Afghanistan

After the Floods, the IMF

Adaner Usmani — 2010-11-15T10:44:09Z

PAKISTAN IN RECENT years has found itself in the headlights of the international press with increasingly regularity. As Obama's surge into Af-Pak has taken shape over the last 12 months, the country and its people have been thrust to the forefront of political discussion for forces left, right and center.

- IV430 - November 2010

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The U.S.-Pakistan Co-dependency

After the Floods, the IMF