Governor Salmaan Taseer's murder raises questions about the future of Pakistan's Western-educated elites.

USIP has been engaged in serious and risky work, hand in hand with our military, in Iraq, Afghanistan and other trouble spots. It is engaged in mediation, nation building and other efforts to reduce conflict and save lives.

There is cause for celebration in the death of a deeply evil man with much blood on his hands and more innocent deaths in his mind, but no cause to waver in our determination to press forward in this conflict against a determined foe.

How can we keep saying that Pakistan is moderate, when they continue to spill blood in the name of religion.

For as long as the United Statescontinues to glossover Pakistan's failure to move quickly on reforms, it is making a mistake.

Disproportionately more international terrorists hail from Pakistan than from any other place on earth.Why has radical Islam become so entrenched in this supposedly secular Muslim state?

Australia is historically well-versed in the challenges of immigration, but an evasive attitude about integrating Muslims should prompt Australia to reconsider its policies.

Against this backdrop--Pakistan careening from one crisis to the next and the U.S.-Pakistan relationship at its lowest point in years--come two contrasting books from experts on the country.