Pakistan-US relations
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Inside Pakistan’s High-Stakes Gamble on Trump
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Eye in the Sky. Pakistan and Cold War Aerial Reconnaissance
Hamid Hussain’s long 2010 essay on US reconnaissance flights from Pakistan during the Cold War, from high-altitude U-2 surveillance onward, sent to his mailing list after readers asked for it…
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U.S.-Pakistan Re-Engagement; Hamid Hussain
Hamid Hussain cautions against euphoria over the July 2019 Imran Khan and Donald Trump meeting, arguing that Pakistan’s gains are narrow, tied to Taliban talks and funds, while Washington’s Afghan…
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Does Trump Have a Strategy in Afghanistan? What is it?
A 2017 Eurasia Review analysis by Shanthie Mariet D’Souza of Trump’s Afghanistan strategy, reposted with Major Agha H Amin’s bolded rebuttals, which argue that the strategy is precise and finally…
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The 51st state
Reacting to an FBI agent’s presence in Pakistan without a government invitation, the poster jokes that Pakistan is America’s 51st state and argues that Washington should explain, with possible reasons…
