Pakistan Eyewitness

Pakistan may be the single most explosive foreign policy issue of the modern world, implicated in crises from the war in Afghanistan to nuclear proliferation.

Our friend Kapil Komireddi recently paid an extended visit to Pakistan, and he has produced a brilliant and terrifying series of essays on what he witnessed. We will be printing the posts in sequence. They are rather longer than usual for the blogosphere – but they are worth it.

Today, part 1: How Pakistan got so dangerous.