This column was written by Joshua Kurlantzick. Today's elections in Pakistan, perhaps the most important in the nation's history, provide an excellent opportunity for the United States to change its ...

No one knows exactly how many people died in the communal bloodletting that followed the partition of India in 1947. Estimates say it was more than 1 million. Santosh Madhok, 81, remembers the hurried ...

In Pakistan, far from the isolated mountains of the tribal belt where the Taliban first appeared, an extremist network has taken root in the country's heartland. The Punjab province is home not only ...