Ploughshares Blog: Pakistan

The following is a guest post from Ashish Sinha, Program Manager at Physicians for Social Responsibility. In recent weeks, nuclear-capable missile tests by North Korea, India, and Pakistan have reminded all of us why national security experts continue to feel South Asia and the Korean Peninsula represent among the highest risks to international peace and stability. Read more »
Posted by admin on May 8, 2012
On the radar: Gallucci on North Korea; Khan’s 4th customer; Ross on pressuring Iran; New START one year on; Uranium sales vs. nonpro standards; a More hostile relationship; India-Pakistan confidence building; and the Silver linings of 2011. Read more »
Posted on December 23, 2011
South Asia is one of the world’s nuclear hotspots. Pakistan posesses the one of the world’s fastest growing nuclear arsenals and is politically unstable. India, also armed with nuclear weapons, has been to war with Pakistan three times in the last three decades. And Afghanistan, plagued by war and terrorism, threatens to destabilize the region. Read more »
Posted by admin on December 21, 2011
From the very first moment that Ploughshares Fund was founded, we understood that people don’t want to fund paperclips, they want to fund peace. That’s why every dollar you donate goes directly to our grantmaking program, with nothing subtracted for administrative or overhead costs. That means your contribution funds a carefully selected set of grants to the smartest people with the best ideas for effective nuclear weapons policy, all with the shared goal of eliminating nuclear weapons. Read more »
Posted by Megan Murphy on December 16, 2011
News of the downed SEAL chopper in Afghanistan earlier this month overshadowed a historic positive development for the region. On Aug 12, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari announced the first reforms to the archaic Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR). These laws, imposed by the British in the 1800s, govern the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and trump state jurisdiction. Although some say that the reforms don’t go far enough, the changes are likely to have positive consequences for crisis stability along the border region as citizens of the region gain greater access to political rights. Read more »
Posted on August 31, 2011
Senators Press Obama on Iran’s Central Bank - Jay Solomon in the Wall Street Journal Read more »
Posted on August 8, 2011
$35B Missile Defense Misses Bullet With Bullet - Elliot Blair Smith and Gopal Ratnam in Bloomberg Read more »
Posted on August 5, 2011