DALOGLU: Foreign policy New global expectations

On Pakistan, the new president faces the challenge of dealing with a failed nuclear state. The terrorist hotbed of Pakistan's tribal beltway has been a focus of concern for too long, but there is little agreement of how to deal with it. More, when an earthquake last week hit Balochistan -- a tribal area -- neither the Bush administration nor the presidential candidates said anything. "Much is said, both by the administration in Islamabad and the bosses in Washington, about winning the hearts and minds of local Pakistanis as the key to winning the war on terror," wrote Rafia Zakaria in Pakistan's Daily Times. "This 'hearts and minds' truism, while a neat and nifty slogan, seems sadly forgotten at a time when it could reap the most rewards."