Good cop, bad cop
As tension simmers in the subcontinent, Mukul Devichand reports on how the US-led coalition against terror may be using one nuclear neighbour to control the other

The speech
Will the Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's address to the nation change Pakistan's Kashmir policy and its attitude to militant Islam once and for all? Iffat Malik writes from Islamabad

Return to lawlessness
The security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating as banditry, car-jacking and cases of kidnapping soar. Absar Alam writes from Islamabad

And what about the Geneva Conventions?
The Bush administration's refusal to treat Afghan prisoners as POWs or accord them basic rights is a dismissal of international law, writes Faiza Rady

What's next?
Is there an end in sight to the US's merciless pounding of Afghanistan? asks Anayat Durrani

Targeting Tehran
Israel is waging a diplomatic offensive to persuade the US administration that Iran should be next on the "war against terror" hit list. Galal Nassar assesses the implications

Learning from South Africa
Yehya Ghanem reports from Johannesburg on a meeting that took place in South Africa between Palestinian and Israeli officials. Gamal Nkrumah interviewed South African deputy foreign minister, Aziz Pahad, on the subject

Talking shop takes stock
East Africa's leaders may have disagreed on some issues at last week's IGAD summit in Khartoum, but they were unanimous in agreeing to mollify an increasingly intransigent United States, writes Gamal Nkrumah

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