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3 August 2010 | Foreign Policy
Last summer, I sat by a pool at an old hotel in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir. Mock stucco and wood paneling vaguely recalled the architecture of the Tudor era; this building looked like one of the characteristic Kashmiri houseboats had sprouted roots and grown widthwise as well, except that the houseboats float on Kashmir’s glass-still Dal Lake; the Broadway Hotel is moored to the earth, while Kashmir moves on around it.
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12 February 2010 | Foreign Policy
When you fire a tear gas shell, you’re supposed to aim below the chest. That’s basically agreed upon, it’s written somewhere: an understanding extracted from a code of conduct housed in an operating manual stuck in someone’s desk drawer.
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14 December 2009 | Foreign Policy
Today in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) announced the result of its investigation into the deaths of two Muslim women in a Kashmiri village this spring.
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8 December 2009 | Foreign Policy
When President Obama laid out his plans for Afghanistan on December 1, he made it clear—to many for the first time—that the war in Afghanistan is not just about Afghanistan. “[T]he stakes are even higher within a nuclear-armed Pakistan,” he said, “because we know that al Qaeda and other extremists seek nuclear weapons, and we have every reason to believe that they would use them.”
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19 August 2009 | Slate
On Aug. 2, Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai appeared on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS to make his case for the Afghan presidency. His answers were astute and his facts irrefutable, and he seemed more engaged than the other main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, who spoke from an office in Kabul, wore a suit, and seemed to be trying, with an affect of singular disinterest, to appear modern and refined.
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