Pakistan in Peril - The New York Review of Books

Great piece on the larger regional context of the Afghanistan conflict...

Pakistan in Peril - The New York Review of Books:

"Pakistan in Peril
By William Dalrymple

The relative calm in Iraq in recent months, combined with the drama of the US elections, has managed to distract attention from the catastrophe that is rapidly overwhelming Western interests in the part of the world that always should have been the focus of America's response to September 11: the al-Qaeda and Taliban heartlands on either side of the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The situation here could hardly be more grim..."