Ali Ahmed Rind

The day after Pakistan’s interior minister denounced the Taliban and religious extremism, his brother was shot dead in downtown Karachi. The minister, Moinuddin Haider, speaking at a seminar titled “Terrorism: A New Challenge to the World of Islam,” said the Taliban’s “narrow concept of Islam was both misguided and misguiding......

It may be only a matter of time before Osama bin Laden is found, and it wouldn‘t surprise me if he turns out to have been hiding in Pakistan, a longtime supporter of the Taliban. Other strong possibilities: Somalia, Chechnya and Indonesia. Pakistan’s 1,500-mile border with Afghanistan, a porous boundary......

Now that the Taliban has been routed from power and a new deal for power sharing struck in Bonn, Germany, the remaking of Afghanistan from the ruins of more than two decades of civil war is under way. At last Afghan groups have crossed the first hurdle toward a broad-based......

KARACHI, PAKISTAN -- With most of Afghanistan virtually under the control of the Northern Alliance, which is no friend of my country, an acute sense of insecurity prevails in Pakistan’s defense establishment. Political observers here agree on one thing: Pakistan, in its immediate past, has never been so isolated from......

Things have dramatically changed in the last few days, and not all to Pakistan’s liking. First, the news of the fall of Mazar-e Sharif, a strategically important city, was initially received with disbelief. This victory was followed by Osama bin Laden‘s claim that he possesses nuclear and chemical weapons, and......

KARACHI, Pakistan -- On September 13, one day before Pakistan decided to support the United States in the war on terror, Islamabad airport was sealed off. No one knew exactly why. Some of my colleagues in the press thought Pakistan had prematurely allowed U.S. forces to land in Islamabad en......