Nepal, a Shangri-La in a perpetual state of political unce...
March 26 ,2020
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By: Probir Pramanik
Prachanda with Oli
On April 22, 2018, on the 148th birth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin, top Nepali Communist leaders who had over...
NSCN (IM) revives old demands putting Indian government in...
March 24 ,2020
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By: Subir Bhaumik
The Indian government has refused to accept two 'core demands' of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah), causing hug...
Ultimate gainers of Afghan power struggle will be US and T...
March 22 ,2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Whereas the US-Taliban ‘peace deal’ was supposed to be followed by an ‘intra-Afghan’ talks involving all Afghan...
Systemic weakness and democracy stand in the way of COVID-...
March 20 ,2020
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By: Afsan Chowdhury
South Asia has still got low rates of the COVID-19 infection. But many say that this is because of the non-existence of proper testing...
Anti-Muslim pogroms may stop but their marginalization wil...
March 18 ,2020
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Following the adverse international media coverage the anti-Muslim riots in Delhi got, and the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michel...
Political dimensions of bid to create a separate “South Pu...
March 16 ,2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even though the issue of dividing Pakistan’s most populous province, the Punjab, is not a new one, the fact that the incumbent go...
COVID-19: No option but to accept the bounty and bane of n...
March 14 ,2020
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By: Afsan Chowdhury
As the coronavirus crisis spreads to various parts of the world, many questions beyond health are also popping up. At the first level,...
Is the Afghan “peace deal” crumbling?
March 10 ,2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Whereas the US-Taliban ‘truce deal’ is historic in many ways, the fact that real peace in Afghanistan remains hostage to co...
India in the Myanmar muddle
March 8 ,2020
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By: Subir Bhaumik
Arakan Army trainees
Desperate to complete the ambitious US$ 484 million Kaladan Multimodal Project and get it operational, India...
Modi’s visit will go through but the future of Indo-Bangla...
March 6 ,2020
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By: Afsan Chowdhury
Sheikh Hasina with Narendra Modi
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bangladesh on the occasion of the centenary...
Rivers of conflict
March 4 ,2020
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By: Ikram Sehgal
Modi inaugurates Kishenganga hydro-electric project
The global demand for fresh water resources has escalated dramatically over th...
India’s bid to isolate Pakistan fails
March 2 ,2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Trump hugging Modi
It was exactly a year ago when an India-Pakistan military stand-off produced cross border strikes in which an I...
Fast eroding faith in Bangladesh’s financial sector
February 29 ,2020
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By: Afsan Chowdhury
As the health of Bangladesh’s financial institutions continues to decline, government’s measures to arrest it have not work...
Trump and Modi make big gains, but India faces a grim pros...
February 27 ,2020
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Through his 36-hour sojourn in India and talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump has made...
Issues that’ll arise after the US-Taliban deal
February 25 ,2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
An US-Taliban shared “understanding” of peace is a prerequisite for any meaningful change to take place in Afghanistan.&nbs...
Trump’s India visit: Populism and nationalism bedevil Indi...
February 23 ,2020
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By: P.K. Balachandran
India and the US frequently trumpet goodwill for each other describing each other as “democracies” and as “strategic...
Is India really prepared for a two front war?
February 21 ,2020
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By: Subir Bhaumik
Gen. Bipin Rawat's only contribution as Indian army chief has been his frequent rhetoric in trumpeting India's capability to fight a tw...
Is Turkey emerging as a new factor in South Asia?
February 17 ,2020
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Erdogan giving Imrn Khan a reassuring touch
Turkey, which has emerged as a challenger of the United States and Saudi Arabia in the...
Why will the Afghan war come to an end?
February 15 ,2020
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By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
According to latest reports, the US and the Taliban have finalized a peace deal and the US President Donald Trump has conditionally a...
It is not in BJP’s DNA to learn lessons from the rout in D...
February 13 ,2020
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By: Subir Bhaumik
Modi and Shah in a fix
The BJP's landmark defeat in the Delhi State Assembly elections this week is both symbolic and substant...
Bangladesh: Elections without voters
February 11 ,2020
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By: Afsan Chowdhury
Bangladesh awash with election posters
Nobody doubted the election’s outcome, and the results confirmed it. Ruling party...
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Colombo Chronicle
Takeaways from the Indian elections: an overview
Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
Ikram Sehgal
Karachi Canvas
Pandemic has sharpened geo-political conflicts
The Corona pandemic that the world is struggling with for the second year now has brought home to us some truths about ourselves. The first thing is that...
