Andrew Wilson

For decades, Pakistan’s role as a haven for armed militant groups has been treated largely as South Asia’s problem — a festering wound in the India-Pakistan relationship, a complication in the Afghanistan

In Kabul’s Secondary Rehabilitation Services Centre, the war on drugs was supposed to be one of the few battles Afghans could still hope to win. Men and women clawing their way back

As explosions echo along the Durand Line and airstrikes pound Kabul, Pakistan’s decades-long bet on the Taliban has detonated into catastrophe. What began as a bid for “strategic depth” against India has

South Asia is slipping toward a second front in a wider regional war, and Washington is looking the other way. Over the past week, Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded their most ferocious

Islamabad’s declaration of ‘open war’ masks a deeper reckoning: the militants threatening Pakistan today were nurtured by its own intelligence apparatus. Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif declared this week that his country

The recent overnight airstrikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory, which the Taliban government reports killed and wounded dozens of civilians, including women and children, represent a grave violation of international norms and