Former ambassador to Pakistan and Bangladesh William B. Milam has produced a sympathetic, frank, and nuanced account of the two…
From the moment Pakistan gained its independence in 1947, its relations with the United States have careened between intimate partnership…
With a simple “good luck” from President Richard Nixon, Ambassador Joseph Farland set out to Pakistan, unsure of what to…
Nine days after David Sprague arrived in Pakistan to work for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a plane…
You might never guess that the work of a USAID Program Economist could result in a trip to the Vatican…
Shortly after joining USAID in 1969, Desaix “Terry” Meyers found himself witnessing both the aftermath of a major natural disaster,…
A crisis between India and Pakistan erupted between November 1986 and March 1987 after India launched the largest-ever military exercise…
In May 1998, India conducted its first nuclear bomb tests since 1974 at the Indian Army Pokhran Test Range. Known…
In the summer of 1965, India and Pakistan returned to the battlefields of Kashmir in a renewed attempt to establish…
It was the end of one era and the beginning of another. In August 1947 the British Empire, which had…