Arsla Jawaid

Arsla Jawaid is the former Managing Editor at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI). She is currently pursuing an M.A. degree in International Affairs at Columbia University. Follow her on Twitter: @arslajawaid.
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A Pakistan policeman stands guard as a member of a polio vaccination team administers drops to a child during a door-to-door vaccination campaign in Karachi on February 23, 2014. Pakistan is one of only three countries in the world where the crippling virus is still endemic, along with Afghanistan and Nigeria. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)

The Polio Capital of the World
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TO GO WITH Afghanistan-unrest-militias,FOCUS by Anuj Chopra This photograph taken on May 23, 2015, shows Afghan militia forces stand with their weapons in Kunduz. The commander known as Pakhsaparan, or the "wall breaker", barked out commands at his bandolier-draped fighters, part of a patchwork of anti-Taliban militias in northern Afghanistan seeking to augment hard-pressed Afghan forces in a strategy fraught with risk. AFP PHOTO / SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

Death Divides the Taliban
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UFA, RUSSIA - JULY 10: In this handout image supplied by Host Photo Agency/RIA Novosti, A group photograph of the SCO heads of state, the heads of observer states and governments, and international organisation delegation heads. First row, from left: President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Almazbek Atambaev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov. Second row, from left: UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) Nikolai Bordyuzha, Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure Zhang Xinfeng, Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi, SCO Secretary-General Dmitry Mezentsev, Executive Secretary â Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Sergei Lebedev, Executive Director of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) Gong Jianwei, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Le Luong Minh. during the BRICS/SCO Summits - Russia 2015 on July 10, 2015 in Ufa, Russia. (Photo by Host Photo Agency/Ria Novosti via Getty Images)

Sharif is Taken to Task at Home
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Winning American Hearts: Ghani’s Trip to the United States
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A Wake-Up Call for Pakistan’s Leaders
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