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Cellphones in the Hindu Kush.(Company overview)

The National Interest

| July 01, 2008 | Hoffman, Bruce; Jones, Seth G. | COPYRIGHT 2008 The National Interest, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

THE LAWLESS border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan has become America's most acute foreign-policy challenge. Virtually every major al-Qaeda attack or plot of the past four years has emanated from the region. Islamic militants threaten not only the nascent democratization and territorial integrity of Afghanistan, but the very stability and future cohesion of nuclear-armed Pakistan.

We recently toured the front lines of this struggle, traveling through such eastern-Afghanistan border provinces as Khowst, Paktika, Kunar and Nuristan. The variety of climactic conditions was astonishing. We made our way by helicopter over snow-packed glaciers, followed by ...

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