The assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province, has illustrated the increasingly chaotic environment in that country.
Pakistan faces a multitude of challenges. Some regard Pakistan as a country in crisis. Whether Pakistan emerges from crisis or sinks deeper into it is of critical importance to the United States. This Policy Brief explores the sources of the "trust deficit" between the United States and Pakistan and recommends steps that the two governments can take to build an enduring partnership that serves their respective and common interests.
It is hard to imagine a government that faces more existential threats to its people, state, and democracy than the current civilian government in Pakistan.
The desperate plight of over 20 million Pakistani citizens displaced and dispossessed by the most ferocious flooding in the history of the young state is heartbreaking.
This policy brief outlines a number of perceptual and policy changes that offer an escape from the counterproductive spiral of a singular focus on the war on terrorism.