The South Asia Channel

If an amalgamation of Taliban, Uzbek, Tajik, and other fighters are allowed to exist in the north, they may win over the support of local populations out of fear and hopelessness.

The new Sri Lankan government is re-balancing its foreign policy, drifting away from China's orbit toward a more equidistant engagement with India and the United States.

Ashraf Ghani has a vision that could turn Central and South Asia into another East Asian Miracle.

Security in Kunduz did not deteriorate overnight. For more than a decade, the NATO and Afghan government strategy in the province has been clumsy and largely ineffective.

Divisions within the National Unity Government have rendered the agreement ineffective over time. An analysis of political appointments reveals biases toward informal patronage and certain ethnic groups that put Afghanistan's stability at risk.

As Afghanistan approaches the anniversary of the establishment of the National Unity Government, a review of the country's transformations affirms the success of the year-old agreement.

Now caught between security and human rights, should the United States have been expected to substitute for a non-existent criminal justice system?

Afghans are the only ones who can save their children from sexual enslavement.