The Pakistan Predicament

Ahmed Rashid, the very best journalist in the world working the India-Pakistan-Afghanistan account, has a comprehensive survey of the situation in Pakistan in the latest National Interest. It seems clear that Ahmed wrote this piece before the monsoon flooding, which has exacerbated–perhaps to the breaking point–all the problems he describes herein. But this certainly is worth a careful read for those who are interested in what is clearly the most dangerous and fragile place on the planet right now.