Our friend Saria Sheikh, a blogger originally from Lahore, Pakistan, will be writing guest posts for our blog. She is a University of Pennsylvania graduate with a BA in Economics and Middle Eastern Studies.

We'll be excited to have more posts on Pakistan, a country that everyone realizes is a huge security challenge, but a place that few people understand.  Saria's perspective is stridently secular, and she doubts that 'democracy' can resolve all of Pakistan's problems.

Saria will be joining the Cato Institute's Foreign Policy and Defense Team as a researcher in the Fall.  All opinions expressed are her own.