Dawn

Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation, which does a good job of tracking such attacks through newspaper reports and other sources, estimates there were only 12 attacks in 2013 as against 122 in 2010. Drone attacks were reduced sharply after the ...

The New America Foundation said the number of civilians killed by US drone strikes in Pakistan was 261-305 from 2004 to 2013. A former intelligence official said the reason for the discrepancy between the US government's apparently lower figures on ...

But Peter Bergen, a journalist and author who has researched Bin Laden more deeply than anyone else, claims the CIA officer who worked on the search for eight years up until his death and was convinced he was hiding in the Abbottabad compound was ...

CAMPAIGN season in the United States is in full swing, with the presidential election scheduled to take place within one month’s time.

Early voting in some states has already started. Washington’s policy wonks are planning their election night parties, while campaign workers gear up for the home stretch, making last-minute phone calls to voters asking for donations and reminding them to vote.

For foreign policy enthusiasts, this election has been less than thrilling. With the exception of Iran and Israel, foreign policy is not a priority in this election.

The 2008 election results couldn’t have delivered a more crystal-clear message about the American desire for change — a yearning that President Barack Obama’s political strategists rightly tapped into with its core campaign theme: change we can believe in.

But more than the substance of his policy platform, Americans drew their support for Obama from two factors. First, the combination of his family background, personal history and achievements proved the American dream was possible.

My favourite quote from President Barack Obama’s election night victory speech was this one:

“It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, or Hispanic or Asian, or Native American, or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight,” President Obama told his crowd of supporters gathered in Chicago. “You can make it here in America if you’re willing to try.”

Boy, how they tried — and succeeded. Obama, the first African American to become president of the United States, made history again. A record number — 20 — of female US senators were elected.

Anatol Lieven in his book 'Pakistan – A Hard Country' observed that in the past 60 years many adventures 'tried to play Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, but they all failed'. He ascribed two reasons for their failure to emulate him. Pakistan remained a country ...

In Pakistan, 46 strikes were carried out in 2012, compared to 72 in 2011 and 122 in 2010, the New America Foundation said, based on its compilation of reports in international media. But Yemen saw an equally drastic increase in the clandestine attacks ...

According to Woodrow Wilson Center's South Asia scholar Anatol Lieven, one of the greatest threats to the future of Pakistan's stability is water security. Water availability per capita has fallen to less than a third of what it was in the 1950s. The ...

A New American Foundation analysis cited by Peter Bergen in a CNN report suggests that under Obama, civilian fatalities were 11 per cent of the total killed in the drone campaign, and stand at two per cent in 2012. Conversely, the number of militants ...