Pakistani police opened a hate speech investigation involving two Muslim clerics on Sunday after the killing of a university student over allegations he committed blasphemy. - Reuters
Sadanand Dhume writes: In a larger sense, however, an India that constricts rather than expands the choices its citizens can make is going backward. In most of the democratic world, dealing with diversity involves accommodating an expanding range of dietary preferences: think of halal meat shops in London or vegetarian Indian restaurants in suburban Virginia. It’s too bad that India appears to be traveling in the opposite direction. – Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
From Daniel DePetris, RealClearDefense: “More than 16 years after the first Special Operations Forces unit stepped onto Afghan soil, does the United States have a strategy in Afghanistan? The Trump administration is still trying to determine the answer to that question, which is why President Trump dispatched National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster to Afghanistan for a full review of Washington’s options.”