PESHAWAR, Pakistan - After two weeks in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I'm struck by how much hot air is expended on rumors of talks with...

...ahead, U.S. envoy Richard C. Holbrooke was welcomed to South Asia last week with a bomb in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar and coordinated attacks in the Afghan capital of Kabul that left 26 dead. Afghanistan's intelligence chief said there may...

...I was supposed to interview Benazir Bhutto on Thursday night. Sound off on the important issues at I had spent the day in Peshawar, the Pakistani city closest to the tribal areas where militant Islamists are now in control. I was talking to Pakistani experts...