Pakistani News for the Rest of Us

Tom Slone sees the South Asian nation of Pakistan as a virtually untapped opportunity, not a risky place to locate his fledgling Fort Worth company’s only outsourcing call center, which he quietly did last summer.
“Pakistan is a hidden gem, a hidden jewel,” enthused Slone, 62, chairman of Touchstone Communications, which he co-founded after working 33 …

Even though no new ground was broken on the festering Jammu and Kashmir dispute, India and Pakistan took some steps on Monday to inject confidence in each other and resolved to take the peace process forward “in an atmosphere free from terrorism and violence’’.
The confidence-building measures included immediate restoration of the strengths of their …