Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.
There's a lot of information on Iran in the files and computer discs captured at the Pakistan hideout of Osama bin Laden.
Pakistan is a very emotional, cricket-loving nation and what Pakistan need is a street-fighter-type in charge of the team.
Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
We shouldn't be thinking about individuals or departments. We should be thinking about national interest. Lifting the standard of Pakistan squash is like working towards national interest.
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?
Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.