Leslie H. Gelb argues that the U.S.-Pakistani relationship will survive.

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

Daniel Markey discusses how much damage the death of Osama bin Laden has done to an already strained U.S.-Pakistan relationship and whether Pakistan is still to be trusted.

Thomas W. Lippman reviews Songs of Blood and Sword by Fatima Bhutto.

Micah Zenko asks what future leaks of U.S. military documents will reveal.

Leslie H. Gelb discusses the WikiLeaks documents and how they underscore the need for the Obama administration to reconsider its policy toward Aghanistan and Pakistan.

Daniel Markey examines the identity, interests, and popular standing of Pakistan's major leaders, particularly with respect to their willingness to cooperate or engage in partnerships with the United States.

Joshua Kurlantzick reviews Nicholas Schmidle's To Live or To Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan.

Daniel Markey examines Pakistan in the post-Musharraf era.

The first foreign leader to visit Pakistan following its recent elections was the prime minister of China, signifying the close relations between the two countries. During the visit, Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari said, "Our top priority is to further strengthen economic linkages."

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To date, Chinese officials have asserted that their interest in Gwadar is strictly a commercial effort to provide another energy corridor for Middle East oil, and Pakistani government officials stridently affirm this position. New Delhi, on the other hand, has expressed "concern" about the true motivations in developing Gwadar, suspecting that it is a Sino-Pak effort at encirclement.

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Daniel Markey leads a conversation on sectarian violence in Pakistan, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.

Hina Rabbani Khar, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan's minister for foreign affairs, discusses U.S.-Pakistan relations, counterterrorism, and Afghanistan.

Pakistani foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar discusses U.S.-Pakistan relations, focusing on the bilateral relationship beyond national security concerns.

Leading Pakistani journalist and bestselling author Ahmed Rashid analyzes the current state of Afghanistan and Pakistan, prospects for U.S. government negotiation with the Taliban, and the potential ramifications of U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

This was a meeting of the Civil Society, Democracy, and Countering Radicalism Roundtable.

Steve Coll, Robert Grenier, and Daniel Markey look at changes in U.S.-Pakistan relations over the past year and make recommendations for moving forward.

Pervez Musharraf, former president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, discusses his return to politics and analyzes the current government's relationship with the United States.

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.

A strong statement from outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Michael Mullen, signaled that "Washington is launching a full-court press to show that it will no longer sit idly by while terrorist groups, abetted by the ISI, kill Americans and their allies in Afghanistan," writes CFR senior fellow Daniel Markey in a recent op-ed. Listen Pakistan expert Markey, and counterterrorism expert Ed Husain discuss the "escalating bout" between the United States and Pakistan.