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Just what factors may have shaped the psychology of Abu Yahya or any other militant remains “highly speculative,” said Brian Fishman, a researcher at the New America Foundation who previously worked at West Point studying terrorist movements. But “it ...

"The Pakistanis see the contradictions in the American approach," said Shamila N. Chaudhary, a former top Obama White House aide on Pakistan and Afghanistan. "The big question for the administration is, What can the Pakistanis actually deliver? Pakistan is holding its cards very closely" ...

"Folks in Washington will expect her national security agenda to be as liberal as her domestic agenda, " said Shamila N. Chaudhary, a South Asia analyst at the Eurasia group who previously served as the director for Pakistan and Afghanistan at the National Security Council ...

"This is related to Karzai's frustration and fears," said Shamila N. Chaudhary, a senior fellow at the New American Foundation, a nonprofit policy group in Washington. "He thinks the Americans are going to hang him out to dry, and that a deal with the Taliban is going to lead to his ouster ...

Some officials suggest that the diplomatic deadlock could be broken by sharing more information with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. But patience with Pakistan in Washington has been so low since the Bin Laden raid in May that such changes could be a tough sell in Congress, said Shamila N. Chaudhary ...

A lot depends on how an employee poses the question, said Tamar Jacoby, the president of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization of small businesses that employ immigrants. Those who ask for verification for deportation deferrals are admitting to being ...

One analysis, from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, estimated that the debt would grow to at least 86 percent of gross domestic product under Mr. Romney's plan over the next decade, from 73 percent currently. Under Mr. Obama's policies, ...

It has been just over 20 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the last great additions to the world’s list of independent nations. As Russia’s satellite republics staggered onto the global stage, one could be forgiven for thinking that this was it: the end of history, the final major release of static energy in a system now moving very close to equilibrium. A few have joined the club since — Eritrea, East Timor, the former Yugoslavian states, among others — but by the beginning of the 21st century, the world map seemed pretty much complete.

"The apology will lower the temperature on U.S.-Pakistan relations," said Shamila N. Chaudhary, a South Asia analyst at the Eurasia Group who served as the director for Pakistan and Afghanistan at the National Security Council ...

Shamila N. Chaudhary of the Eurasia Group, a consulting firm, said that while Mr. Ashraf's ouster would not bring down the government, "it would still leave Zardari vulnerable to other Supreme Court actions ...