Pakistan

Magazine articles on politics and society in Pakistan.

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TIME Europe December 4, 2008 Shashi Tharoor	Opportunity in Crisis The atrocity in Mumbai gives India and Pakistan a chance to talk peace, not wage war.
TIME Asia September 11, 2008 Aryn Baker	The Central Front Pakistan is in crisis. Islamic extremism has metastasized from the lawless tribal areas on the border with Afghanistan to Pakistan's cities.
TIME Asia July 10, 2008 Aryn Baker	Dangerous Ground Seth Jones, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp., says that Pakistan has become the neglected stepchild, only third or fourth in a list of U.S. strategic interests that start with Iraq and Afghanistan. "Pakistan should be No. 1," says Jones.
TIME Asia February 27, 2008 Aryn Baker	Benazir Bhutto: A Woman Divided To millions of supporters, she was the inheritor of her father's political legacy. To millions of others, she was a brazen opportunist. Her posthumous memoir, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, will do little to change those ingrained opinions.
TIME Asia February 21, 2008 Aryn Baker	A Matter Of Faith Pakistan's election was a fight for democracy and a referendum on a dictator. But the true battle is over the nation's Islamic soul.
TIME Asia February 21, 2008 Mohsin Hamid	A Moment of Hope The Feb. 18 election has not solved Pakistan's many problems. Yet Pakistanis are justified in allowing themselves a sigh of relief, for Pakistan suddenly looks and feels a lot less frightening than it did.
TIME Europe February 14, 2008 Aryn Baker	Pakistan's Best Hope for Democracy It is a telling comment about the state of political freedom in Pakistan that, with the country set to vote in a Feb. 18 general election, its most respected democrat is confined to his home under house arrest.
TIME Asia January 3, 2008 Aryn Baker	Pakistan's National Tragedy Pakistan will continue on, limping and damaged, after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto; the question remains, how will the country find life for itself without constantly celebrating death?
TIME Asia November 22, 2007 Aryn Baker	Pakistan's Valley of Extremism Swat Valley, Pakistan's biggest tourist destination, home to the country's only ski slope and a haven for trout-fishing, is currently under the control of an extremist group that has torched shops and beheaded policemen.
TIME Asia November 15, 2007 Aryn Baker	Bhutto Unshackled For the duration of her short-lived marriage of convenience to President Pervez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto's friends and political rivals wondered how she, a populist democrat, could live with him, a military dictator. Her freedom creates a disturbing scenario for the Bush Administration, which was counting on the Musharraf-Bhutto deal to keep Pakistan stable.
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