Episode 132: Ambassador Cameron Munter Mark Leon Goldberg December 12, 2016 Cameron Munter was the US Ambassador to Pakistan when US Special forces conducted the midnight raid that killed Osama Bin Laden. He watched the raid live and hours later was dealing with the diplomatic fallout.Munter had a career in both academia and the...
Pakistani Polio Team Found Murdered Mark Leon Goldberg February 20, 2015The team had gone missing earlier in the week. “Local militants had abducted the vaccination worker, two local tribal policemen and a driver in the Zhob district of Baluchistan province on Saturday. Pakistan is one of only three countries where polio remains e...
Episode 49: C. Christine Fair Mark Leon Goldberg January 20, 2015C. Christine Fair is one of academia's brightest and most respected South Asia analysts.
The Single Deadliest Attack in the Ignoble History of the Pakistani Taliban Mark Leon Goldberg December 17, 2014The outpouring of support and outrage is the one bright spot of this awful attack.
The Impossible Suffering of Pakistani Women Displaced by War Mona Kazim Shah August 27, 2014Fouzia Bibi, mother of three from Waziristan, Pakistan lost her husband to the Taliban in the beginning of 2014. Six months later she lost her home too.In June, the government and the military began an operation against the Taliban in North Waziristan Agen...
The Needle and the Damage Done Mark Leon Goldberg May 20, 2014The Obama administration says it is finally -- mercifully -- no longer permitting its intelligence agencies from using vaccine campaigns as a ruse to collect intelligence. The decision was made after public outcry from health institutions who say that the fak...
Scores Killed in Hyderabad, India Blasts Mark Leon Goldberg February 21, 2013The attack comes at a precarious moment. If this attack--like other major attacks in India in the recent past -- can be tied to a Pakistani terror group it may set back someremarkable progress towards detente between India and Pakistan that as been taking place over the past year.
Polio Health Workers Massacred in Nigeria Mark Leon Goldberg February 8, 2013The attacks in Nigeria suggest that Islamist inspired terrorist groups are opening a new, global front against health workers.
Pakistanis Unite In Protests Against Sectarian Attacks on Hazaras Ahmad Shuja January 13, 2013Thousands of people are protesting across Pakistan in solidarity with families of the 86 victims of two ethno-sectarian attacks in Quetta city who are grieving in sub-zero temperatures and staging a sit-in, refusing to bury the dead unless the government decisively cracks down on terrorists.
