a very interesting story here, combining sen. obama's south asia policy advisor's theory re: key to future pakistan policy , with the writer's analysis of same, including its risks for pakistan's and obam's policy future. hasn't other sources nor alternate assessments from others., but reasonable sounding considerations are offered.

I can't help remembering a political cartoon that appeared in the early days of the present administration where a very puzzled George W. Bush reacted to an aide bringing him information about Kashmir with a question to the effect: "You mean all this is about sweaters?" It is interesting to consider that the most effective counter-terrorism measure might be to resolve the Kashmir situation. But what is most interesting is that a journalist with a very different frame of reference than American journalists sees so much hope in a future President Obama.

The writer seems well-informed, but I don't know enough to be sure his opinions are sound. The only biases I detect are a focus on his homeland and favoring the heightened diplomacy Obama promises.

not much...its because the report is informative but deeply mired in the bias that rests upon the highly externalised perspective of kashmir and assigns no weightage to the personal and political choices of the people caught in the conflict of not their own making