What went down at the Chicago Summit? How will instability in Afghanistan affect Pakistan? Will the US finally make up its mind regarding what role the Taliban will play in ending the Afghan conflict? Rahimullah Yusufzai ponders these questions in the June cover story.

Dr Shakeel Afridi has been sentenced 33 years in prison, but if the US had its way, he would be feted as a hero.

Forty-nine journalists have died of violence in the country since 2002 and most belong to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Does Pakistan figure in the face-saving deal that the US is trying to thrash out with the Taliban in Doha?

With Pakistan, the US and Afghanistan pointing accusatory fingers at each other as the US withdrawal from Afghanistan nears, how will ‘The Great Game’ in the Af-Pak region end?

Pakistan must tread carefully in Afghanistan, as it negotiates Iranian, Saudi and Indian interests in its war-torn neighbourhood.

Obama’s plans of a phased drawdown of US troops in Afghanistan are unlikely to usher in a period of peace and stability in the country or the region. In fact, negotiations between US and Afghan officials about permanent US military bases seem to indicate otherwise.

With Osama gone, is Pakistan now Public Enemy Number One?

Frosty CIA-ISI relations are unlikely to thaw anytime soon, especially after the unilateral raid on bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad and repeated US demands on Pakistan to crack down on the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan.

Pakistani journalist Rahimullah Yusufzai talks about his three-hour interview with Osama bin Laden in 1998.