My latest external publication is an article on ForeignPolicy.com that discusses the plight of President Asif Ali Zardari. An excerpt is at the end of this post.
I have been blogging less frequently in the past two months, but you can catch me regularly on the John Batchelor Show, Saturdays at 9:30PM EST (770AM-NY, WABCradio.com, [...]

My latest publication, an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor is available here.  An excerpt is below:
“After eight years of US involvement in Afghanistan, a strategic crossroads within Asia, the country remains a deadly conflict zone. In fact, this weekend insurgents attacked two US military bases along the Pakistani border. Helping Afghanistan stand on [...]

Here’s a link to my latest blog post at ForeignPolicy.com’s Af-Pak Channel. It’s on the Pakistan Army’s upcoming ground operations in South Waziristan.

 
On Saturday night, I appeared on the John Batchelor Show (WABC Radio, New York, 770AM) to discuss the status of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan following the killing of Baitullah Mehsud.
Audio of the interview is available below:
Arif_Rafiq_JBShow_08_29_09.mp3

Check out my blog at ForeignPolicy.com’s Af-Pak Channel on the ’selection’ of Hakimullah Mehsud as Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan chief and the organization’s internal divisions.

Sometimes when I read the writing of others, I feel as if the voice is my own.
This morning, when I read Amir Mir’s report in The News, I realized some of the words were my own.
Wednesday morning (Pakistan time), I wrote these words in my post, eighteen hours before Amir Mir’s report in the Thursday [...]

Readers might be intrigued why my blogging has become so infrequent in a time so critical for Pakistan.  There are two reasons.
One, my primary work (consulting) expressly deals with Pakistan nowadays.  The more serious the situation, the greater demand there is for my work.  Paid clients get priority over friends who view my writing for [...]

If you haven’t noticed already, there’s a new widget on the left sidebar for my Twitter entries.  I’m experimenting with the service.
Microblogging seems like overkill.  I think it might produce a new fad in a few years — a reversion to paper, face to face conversations, and the landline phone.
With that said, I will keep [...]

Our servers have been extremely slow and often unresponsive over the past few days. This has made both visiting and my posting to the site fairly prohibitive. Server speed has since returned to reasonably tolerable levels now. My apologies.  A new post is expected this evening.

Just finished a live interview on BBC Radio 5.  The segment was on the YouTube ban by the Pakistani government.  I’ll put up an audio clip once it’s available.