Nukhbat Malik writes for World Pulse, a Worldfocus partner that features women's voices from around the world. In this entry she describes the chilling experience of meeting children scarred by war in the town of Hasan Abdal in northern Punjab, Pakistan.

On Thursday, the government of Pakistan sent paramilitary troops to a northwest district that was recently taken over by the Taliban. Michael Krepon of the Henry L. Stimson Center discusses the Taliban's growing influence and increasing concerns about the Pakistani government's ability to control the militants.