Shirin Tahir-Kheli

Tahir-Kheli is Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. She served in senior positions at the National Security Council and the Department of State in three Republican administrations.

Pakistan’s Crucial Elections

The U.S. needs a stable Pakistan, and the new leadership to emerge from this election will face huge challenges. Shirin Tahir-Kheli on the biggest issues facing the country right now.

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Fanatics vs. Females

Pakistan Is Everybody’s Problem

The whole world bears responsibility for ending the Taliban’s war against women. By Shirin Tahir-Kheli.

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Is Pakistan's Arab Spring Coming?

The raid on Osama bin Laden laid bare the myth of close cooperation between the U.S. and Pakistan. Shirin Tahir-Kheli on how the rising tension could lead to Pakistan’s Arab Spring.

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The Lopsided U.N. Security Council Vote on Libya

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and Germany all abstained in the U.N. vote on military action in Libya. Shirin Tahir-Kheli, a former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. for Special Political Affairs, on why they bucked the responsibility. Plus, experts on whether Libya’s no-fly zone will work.

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Obama's Impossible Pledge to India

With all the geographical groups bickering, expanding the U.N. Security Council to allow a permanent seat for India, which President Obama supports, is unlikely. And that’s not to mention an ascendant U.N.-hostile Republican Congress and pushback from China.

Shirin Tahir-Kheli

Shirin Tahir-Kheli

Pakistan’s Crucial Elections

Pakistan Is Everybody’s Problem

Is Pakistan's Arab Spring Coming?

The Lopsided U.N. Security Council Vote on Libya

Obama's Impossible Pledge to India

Obama's Pakistan Problem

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