Lament for India's descent into authoritarianism
October 15 ,2021
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By: Victor Mallet
Two new books -- "The Struggle for India's Soul" by Shashi Tharoor and "Modi's India" by Christophe Jaffrelot -- examine...
Bangladesh Is Clothes-Minded
October 11 ,2021
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By: Sanjay Khajuria
Laborers wearing face masks work in a garment factory in Ashulia, Bangladesh, on April 7, 2020. MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP VIA GETTY IMA...
Britain and India want Gurkha women to fight in their armi...
September 24 ,2021
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By: Tom Hussain
Nepalese Gurkha soldiers at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in Britain. Photo: AFP
The Gurkhas are known for being among th...
The Era of Missed Opportunities
September 21 ,2021
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By: Dirk Kurbjuweit
Angela Merkel's 16 years as German chancellor have been characterized by crisis after crisis, most of them global in nature. Her in...
The political role of Sufi mystics in Afghanistan
September 16 ,2021
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By: Fizza Batool
Since the Taliban swiftly took Kabul in August, Afghans and Afghanistan watchers have been grappling with what the shape and nature of...
Two decades after 9/11, how delusion led to defeat in Afgh...
September 11 ,2021
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By: Andrew North
For three centuries, faraway empires have come to conquer Afghanistan -- the British in the 19th, the Soviets in the 20th and now t...
Turkey, Iran and Pakistan raise entry bars for Afghan refu...
Siblings who arrived from Afghanistan with their families are seen in Pakistan on Sept. 1. Thousands, if not millions, of people are...
States in Action: Federalism and foreign policy in India
September 6 ,2021
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By: Chirayu Thakkar
In 2012, the Italian defense minister met the chief minister of the Indian state of Kerala requesting him to allow the trial...
Ladakh stand-off has exposed India’s failed nuclear deterr...
September 3 ,2021
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By: Pravin Sawhney
Indian and Chinese troops and tanks disengage from the banks of Pangong lake area in Eastern Ladakh. Photo: PTI/Indian Army handout...
Speaking of Asia: Letting Asia's bygones be bygones
August 31 ,2021
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By: Ravi Velloor
Pakistani Rangers (in black) and Indian Border Security Force personnel during the daily Beating Retreat ceremony at the India-Pakist...
Afghanistan: The End of the Occupation
August 26 ,2021
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By: Jonathan & Nancy
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: A lot of nonsense about Afghanistan is being written in Britain and the Unit...
Will China's digital yuan vanquish the dollar?
August 12 ,2021
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By: Narayanan Somasundaram
For years, China's efforts to develop a digital currency seemed intended for domestic use only. The introduction of an "e-yuan," which...
India’s passage to despotism began long before demagogue M...
Posters and cutouts of Narendra Modi in 2014, when he was chief minister of western Gujarat state and the prime ministerial candida...
Q&A: Meeting Modi only added to hopelessness, says Kashmir...
August 6 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Mohamad Yusuf Tarigami, convener and spokesman of the so-called Gupkar alliance and ex-CPM legislator, in Srinagar, Indian-administer...
Korybko’s response To Hoodbhoy: Security dilemmas ruined A...
August 5 ,2021
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By: Andrew Korybko
Mr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, an Islamabad-based physicist and writer, published a piece in Dawn on 31 July titled “Who messed up Afghanis...
Coronavirus child brides: Bangladesh teens forced into mar...
August 3 ,2021
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By: Masum Billah
Sharolika Parvin, 16, was an aspiring football player until she was married earlier this year and her in-laws did not allow her to co...
Pakistan’s untapped soft power potential
June 26 ,2021
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By: Saif Khattak
Pakistan’s foreign policy under Prime Minister Imran Khan has grown more proactive as Pakistan has responded directly to internat...
To prevent democracy's erosion, India must first redefine...
June 25 ,2021
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By: Md Zeeshan Ahmad
Indian politics and its vocabulary have changed significantly over the last decade or so. Rather, it has got re-defined. More so, in th...
Myanmar sinks deeper into civil war, as anti-army groups m...
June 24 ,2021
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By: SAM Staff
Mounted on his bike, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a corporate logo, Kyaw Soe resembles one of the myriad food-couriers zipping thr...
In the wake of India’s Covid crisis, a ‘Black Fungus’ epid...
June 22 ,2021
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By: Emily Schmall
Mucormycosis patients and their relatives at Ahmedabad Civil Hospital in the Indian state of Gujarat.Credit...Atul Loke for The New Y...
Myanmar’s coming revolution
June 14 ,2021
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By: Thant Myint-U
Anti-coup demonstrators in Yangon, Myanmar, April 2021. The New York Times / Redux
Myanmar is at a point of no return. The army&rs...
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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...
