Obama's Pakistan Problem
Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as senior adviser for women’s empowerment. She highlights the importance of women’s empowerment as an element of U.S. foreign policy and designs programs to implement that goal. She spearheads the efforts of the secretary’s Women Leaders’ Working Group, composed of nearly 40 foreign ministers and heads of state, and promotes women’s empowerment through political participation; economic empowerment; education; and justice.
While the president ponders the way forward in Afghanistan, Pakistan looms as perhaps his greatest foreign policy challenge. Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli on how the past can help point the way forward.
I recommend Karan Mahajan's debut novel Family Planning. It's the truest portrait of modern New Delhi I've read, and the funniest book of the year, about a government minister with 13 children. The author is only 24.
Suketu Mehta is author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. He is an Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University.
The Single Lesson of Mumbai
Meenakshi Ganguly is Senior Researcher for South Asia with Human Rights Watch
After the Mumbai attacks the Indian and Pakistani governments moved to the brink of nuclear war. But only cooperation to defeat terrorism will offer the peace they both crave.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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