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GETTING BIN LADEN : What happened that night in Abbottabad by Nicholas Schmidle Shortly after eleven o’clock on the night of May 1st, two MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters lifted off from Jalalabad Air Field, in eastern Afghanistan, and embarked on a covert mission into Pakistan to kill...

Tensions Flare as G.I.’s Take Fire Out of Pakistan FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHARANA, Afghanistan — American and Afghan soldiers near the border with Pakistan have faced a sharply increased volume of rocket fire from Pakistani territory in the past six months, putting them at greater risk...

Zakaria: Why 'Mission Impossible' premiers in India By Fareed Zakaria, CNN Going to the movies is a great American pastime. And whether it's Kung Fu Panda or Harry Potter, there's always some extra cache in catching the films as soon as they're released. So if you're a Mission Impossible...

Behind the Pakistan F-16 deal, a tale of many wheels - The Hindu The sale was considered only ‘symbolically important' by the U.S., but had many strings attached The sale by the United States of F-16 military aircraft to Pakistan, announced in 2005, was celebrated as a sign of deepening...

Former top Afghan spy speaks out - 60 Minutes - CBS News

Pakistan and China: Sweet as can be? PAKISTAN’S ambassador to Beijing, Masood Kahn, was this week fully armed with metaphors to describe the robust friendship between the two countries. “We say it is higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, stronger than steel, dearer than...

Economic blasphemy In saving itself, Pakistan’s government has jeopardised the economy ON JANUARY 3rd Pakistan’s central bank began printing rupee notes carrying the signature of Shahid Kardar, who was appointed governor of the State Bank of Pakistan in September. Unfortunately inflation...

Great disorder under heaven China’s disastrous diplomacy betrays the government’s insecurity at home “WHY has the external environment changed?” asks a Chinese scholar of international relations in Beijing, pondering a bad few months for Chinese diplomacy. Nothing big...

The empty chair CHINESE leaders probably failed to anticipate the battering that China’s image abroad would suffer as a result of the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to an imprisoned Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo. They would have expected that their boycott of the award ceremony in...

Pakistani Christian Asia Bibi 'has price on her head' Ashiq Masih has the look of a hunted man - gaunt, anxious and exhausted. Though he is guilty of nothing, this Pakistani labourer is on the run - with his five children. His wife, Asia Bibi, has been sentenced to death for...

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor - review Next year, the Chinese Communist party (CCP) will celebrate its 90th birthday. Founded with a mere 53 members in July 1921 in Shanghai, it has now burgeoned to 78 million. Since 1949, it has been the ruling...

Tata Donates $50 Million to Harvard Harvard Business School on Thursday said it received a $50 million donation from India's diversified conglomerate Tata Group, the largest gift the school received from an international donor in its 102-year history. The funds will be used to build a...

Under Surveillance—And Celebrating A dispatch from Beijing: After the Peace Prize, China's democracy activists remain wary and watched By ZHANG ZUHUA It has been a busy two weeks in China. Last week, my friend, the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo, won the Nobel Peace Prize for his...

Pakistan Looks For U.S. Deal By TOM WRIGHT ISLAMABAD—Pakistan's renewed push to clinch a civilian nuclear deal with Washington threatens to further strain relations that are already tense over Islamabad's reluctance to attack Taliban havens on its soil. Pakistan officials say they...

All the Propaganda That’s Fit to Print Why Xinhua, China’s state news agency, could be the future of journalism. It had all the trappings of a globally significant confab: big-deal appearances (by Google, BBC), a weighty theme (“the digital age”), and speechifying by international...

The great mediator Sometimes Turkey really is a bridge between west and east Aug 19th 2010 | istanbul IN JUNE 2006, days after a young Israeli private was captured by Hamas, Israel’s ambassador to Turkey paid a midnight visit to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister. Gilad Shalit...

Change you can believe in? The prime minister calls frankly for political reform Aug 26th 2010 | Beijing CHINA is enjoying its new status as the world’s second-largest economy, but the prime minister, Wen Jiabao, is refusing to relax. During a visit to a southern boomtown he...

A stronger, wider, deeper relationship It's a real pleasure to be back in India. This is my third trip here and with each visit, time seems to have leaped forward by decades in just a few years. It is exhilarating to see a country growing at super-speed before your eyes. But I'm not just...

Peter R.Kann Dacca Diary The Wall Street Journal 14 December 1971 [When the Indo-Pakistan war broke out in December 1971, Peter Kann was stranded in Dacca until Indian troops took over the country. Due to the difficulties of transmission he kept a diary of the events taking place...

We owe it to India: Bhutan King NEW DELHI: Bhutan King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck on Wednesday attributed the friendship with India to the success of Bhutan as a nation. “Bhutan would not be where it is today without India’s friendship,” he said while delivering the Madhav Rao...