Mansoor Ijaz is an American financier, foreign policy commentator, and Pakistani-American Muslim who has been involved in back-channel diplomatic negotiations and national security discussions. He contributed to The Weekly Standard between 2003 and 2005, writing on Pakistan's nuclear proliferation, al Qaeda threats, the Iraq War, and U.S.-Muslim relations. His commentary frequently drew on his expertise in South Asian geopolitics and counterterrorism policy.
EARTHQUAKE DIPLOMACY is in full swing in South Asia after a donor summit recently concluded in Islamabad with international relief aid commitments totaling $5.9 billion to rehabilitate and reconstruct the devastated villages of northern Pakistan and Kashmir. During the proceedings, Pakistan's…
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INDIA'S PRIME MINISTER, Atal Behari Vajpayee, met Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in Islamabad on Monday on the sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit. The two erstwhile enemies shook hands and then agreed to hold formal talks starting next month. The…
WITH THE MAGNIFICENCE of a backdrop that only an American aircraft carrier could offer, President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln last week. But America's deft military campaign to liberate Iraq will not be considered…
FOR MONTHS, ARAB- AND MUSLIM-AMERICAN lobby groups have passionately spoken out against war with Iraq, citing the potential for everything from the mass murder of Iraqi babies to the creation of tens of thousands of baby bin Ladens. Warnings of dire consequences have flooded underground Internet…
OSAMA BIN LADEN, or some good likeness of him, spoke from the ether again on two occasions last week, releasing two undated audiotapes as Muslims completed their pilgrimages to Mecca. His call to Jihad did not stop at tying himself to Iraq's people, by which he had clearly hoped to provoke…