Geography has never been kind to Pakistan. The country inherited a nine times larger adversarial state in India following the Indian Subcontinent’s partition in 1947. Likewise, geographical incongruity between Pakistan’s western and eastern wings (now Bangladesh) was among the factors that resulted in the latter’s separation in 1971. Similarly, theContinue Reading
As U.S. President Donald Trump stepped into office for the second time, most of the attention on foreign policy seemed to revolve around China, Ukraine, and the crisis in the Middle East. Afghanistan seems to have been de-prioritized yet again, but for behind-the-scenes dealings that largely went unnoticed. On JanuaryContinue Reading
On January 21, the United States struck a prisoners’ swap deal with the Taliban in which two Americans were exchanged for a Taliban member convicted on terrorism and drug trafficking charges in 2008. American citizens Ryan Corbett and William McKenty were swapped for Khan Mohammad, who had been serving aContinue Reading
