There is a pattern familiar to many developing nations, and Pakistan knows it well. You build. You reform. You legislate. You send your ambassador to testify,
Pakistan’s ongoing struggle with militancy has produced decades of security-centric analysis, body counts, militant group genealogies, and counterterrorism operations measured in territorial gains. Yet this
Somewhere in the mountains of Badakhshan, a Taliban commander built himself a house he could not have afforded five years ago. His neighbors noticed. So,