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The Kabayan cave mummies are a unique chapter in mummification history, which involved a distinct smoking process. They are an amazing example of ancient Ibaloi ingenuity.

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No one can tell Nancy Pelosi what to do when it comes to China.

In the middle of an Islamabad night, just before the Pakistan election of 2013, the Irish journalist Declan Walsh was visited by "angels". These angels, as Pakistanis call the members of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), served Walsh with a letter of expulsion. After nearly a decade as a correspondent reporting on Pakistan's politics for The Guardian and then

Storefront Stagnation: Coping With Neighborhood Retail’s New Realities We miss the locally owned shops that once sustained community on our Main Streets. We need to try to sustain them in a radically different economic world. Alan Ehrenhalt, Senior Editor   |   April 20, 2021 Like many of the residents of our northern Virginia neighborhood, I am attached to my local bookstore and worry that it could go away. I try to shop there instead of at Amazon when...

The Nine Lives of Pakistan BY December 11, 2020 . S outh Asia has always been a place of great interest to me. Like much of my interest in foreign affairs and international relations, this is due to Dr. Elizabeth Hanson at the University of Connecticut. I was fortunate enough to take her South Asia in World Politics course in my junior year of college and convert it for honors credit. Early on in the class, she suggested we attend an exhibition at the university museum of South Asian art and mu...

Book World: A correspondent revisits Pakistans tangle of contradictions and violence Bilal Qureshi, The Washington Post Dec. 11, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches From a Precarious State By Declan Walsh - - - In December 2007, a 15-year-old Taliban suicide bomber assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi as she drove away from a campaign rally. Her murder and the ensuing political chaos sent shock waves through Washington corridors...

Foreign correspondent Declan Walsh explored the country in the years after 9/11.