Senator Carl M. Levin discusses the challenges facing the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as a range of other national security concerns.

Senator Carl M. Levin discusses the challenges facing the United States in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as a range of other national security concerns.

Teresita and Howard Schaffar review U.S. strategy options regarding Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Kashmir.

Bruce O. Riedel stresses the need to reshape U.S. policy toward Pakistan.

Max Boot says the United States should not let fear of reaction deter it from dealing with the menace Pakistan poses.

According to the Washington Post, both Pakistan and the United States are playing a double game of strategy regarding diplomatic and military relations in Afghanistan.

This report considers the future of Pakistan from a variety of perspectives, seeing radicalization, reform, and fragmentation as three likely courses of development.

CFR fellows Daniel Markey and Ed Husain discuss the implications of a tougher U.S. policy toward Pakistan on counterterrorism cooperation, on the war in Afghanistan and the future of the region.

Pakistan has emerged as a terrorist sanctuary for some of the world's most violent groups, including al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and homegrown militants, that threaten the stability of Pakistan as well as the region.

The United States has effectively issued an ultimatum to Islamabad implying greater unilateral action against Pakistan-based extremist groups, but Washington must be prepared to act on it, says CFR's Daniel Markey.

Daniel Markey says tough talk is not enough as the United States places demands on Islamabad to deal with the Haqqani network.

The New Yorker's Dexter Filkins describes the career and death of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who reported on the presence of Islamist extremism in the Pakistani military and intelligence institutions.

Ten years after 9/11, author Ahmed Rashid discusses U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and why wars in the region cannot be won purely by military force.

James Dobbins and James J. Shinn, coauthors of Afghan Peace Talks: A Primer, discuss the relationships between al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, as well as the obstacles and possible outcomes of peace negotiations.

Pakistan's arrest of senior al-Qaeda leaders signals renewed cooperation with the United States. But experts stress both sides have to work harder to tackle issues such as Pakistan's relations with militant groups and U.S. objectives in Afghanistan.

The repercussions of a terrorist attack on the United States originating in Pakistan could be catastrophic. Professor Stephen Tankel outlines policy tools that U.S. decision-makers can employ to prevent an attack and to mitigate the consequences if one occurs.

As ethno-political violence continues in Pakistan's financial capital, Pakistani analyst Mosharraf Zaidi says the city needs a more effective police force and judicial system, which in turn will engender investor confidence globally.

A profile of the international terrorist network that the United States has singled out as the most serious threat to U.S. security.

This brief by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Jinnah Institute in Pakistan, summarizes the perceptions of Pakistani foreign policy elite about Pakistan's strategy and interests in Afghanistan, its view of the impending "end game," and the implications of its policies towards Afghanistan for the U.S.- Pakistan relationship.

The FBI's arrest of Ghulam Nabi Fai on charges of acting as a Pakistani agent to lobby U.S. policymakers on Kashmir may worsen the countries' already troubled relationship, says CFR's Daniel Markey.