Today, the Council on Pakistan Relations called on the Obama Administration to dramatically increase U.S. humanitarian assistance
The Council on Pakistan Relations met with the office of Senator Max Baucus to discuss the importance of increasing trade relations between the U.S. and Pakistan and other issues.
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Last week, the Council on Pakistan Relations had an extended meeting with Senator Carper to discuss his recent trip to Pakistan as well as a broad range of other U.S.-Pakistan issues. Senator Carper told CPR that he had an extremely productive trip to Pakistan and recognized the many challenges facing the government there. read more…
The human tragedy unfolding in Pakistan right now demands our full attention. Flooding there has already stranded 20 million people, more than 10 percent of the population read more…
Ashraf Qazi, chairman of the Council for Pakistan Relations, said a slack effort by the international community in Pakistan “could potentially cause a very serious social upheaval.”
The rains that have for the past two weeks caused the worst flooding in northwest Pakistan in eight decades have shifted attention from the country’s battle against insurgency and militancy and the fragility of its relationship with the United States. read more…
Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan — American and Pakistani publics are decrying the CIA’s use of armed drones to kill militants ensconced in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). read more…
Last month, it began to rain here in Lahore. It was my baby daughter’s read more…
By Zeeshan Aleem: The floods ravaging Pakistan since the beginning of August have sparked a competition between the United States and extremist Islamist elements within read more…
The US is widely disliked in Pakistan, feeding the Taliban and terrorism there. But if the US played a major role in Pakistan flood relief, it could win many hearts and minds, some experts say. read more…
The online release of a mountain of U.S. intelligence documents is tantalizing for being stamped “secret,” sensational because of WikiLeaks’ impressive media strategy, and politically relevant because it arrives in an atmosphere of increasing disillusionment over prospects for victory in Afghanistan. read more…
In a timely though perhaps overly dramatic move, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani of Pakistan announced last night on national television the extension of army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani for another three years read more…
