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Reimagining Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan0
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- January 27, 2020
By Rahim Nasar 27 January 2020 In Pakistan, agreeing on a single Pashtun-centric narrative is a major dilemma. This is where conflicts of interests and principles begin. The structural interference of powerful institutions and assurance of limited political and electoral interests make nationalist rhetoric even more troubling. As a result, young Pashtuns with political and
READ MORESri Lanka diplomatic pendulum swinging back?0
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- January 20, 2020
New interest in India, while China for years has been widening its footprint with transport projects By AT Contributor, Colombo Sri Lanka and India vowed to strengthen military ties and widen maritime links with neighbors after security talks, the president’s office said Sunday, as China’s economic clout increases in the region. China, a long-time regional
READ MOREBangladeshi lawmakers want extrajudicial killings0
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- January 20, 2020
The demand by a few parliamentarians that the police be allowed to kill rapists without a trial has led to a furious debate By Faisal Mahmud, Dhaka 20 January 2020 Extra-judicial killing is not new in Bangladesh. What is new is a campaign by elected lawmakers in Parliament to legitimize killings by the police that
READ MOREIndia’s ominous threat to Rohingya Muslim refugees0
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- January 17, 2020
By Phelim Kine 17 January 2020 The tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who have fled to India to escape widespread and systematic violence and discrimination in Myanmar face an existential threat from a new source: India’s government. Early this month, a senior government minister announced that Indian authorities would move expeditiously to deport the
READ MOREBangladesh court orders arrest of journalist0
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- January 17, 2020
Matiur Rahman, editor of the Prothom Alo daily, is an outspoken champion of freedom of expression By AT Contributor 17 January 2020 A Bangladesh court Thursday issued an arrest warrant for the country’s most respected independent newspaper editor after a student was killed at an event organized by a sister publication. Matiur Rahman, editor of
READ MOREA rape in India every 15 minutes: government data0
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- January 16, 2020
Government has released annual data that reveals a rise in attacks against women By Varalika Mishra, New Delhi 15 January 2020 In India, a rape is reported every 15 minutes, according to recently released official government crime data. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data from 2018 has stark revelations about crime in the country.
READ MOREIndia-BangladeshBorder Killings0
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- January 14, 2020
January 14, 2020 Death toll rising on the India-Bangladesh border At least 43 Bangladeshi citizens were killed by Indians in 2019, a threefold increase from the previous year By Faisal Mahmud, Dhaka Bangladesh Minister for Foreign affairs AK Momen on Sunday said both Dhaka and New Delhi want “zero deaths” along the two countries’ borders.
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Myanmar continues to make mistakes of the past0
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- January 14, 2020
By Maung Zarni 14 January 2020 January 4 marked the 72nd anniversary of Myanmar’s independence from Britain. The civil war in which the country – a patchwork of diverse ethnic regions, with mutually incomprehensible languages, unerasable regional identities and distinct political histories – was born has come a full circle. It is noteworthy that modern
READ MOREIndia facing major recession: Nobel laureate0
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- January 9, 2020
Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee said India is ‘extremely close to a tipping point of a major recession’ By KS Kumar 9 January 2020 Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee has expressed concern over the state of the Indian economy and observed it was on the verge of a major recession. He said the government should focus on
READ MOREIndia-Bangladesh on a diplomatic tightrope0
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- January 9, 2020
By Faisal Mahmud, Dhaka | January 7, 2020 | Asia Times Fears India’s citizenship act will push more immigrants into the country now hosting Rohingya refugees For the current Bangladeshi regime, maintaining the stance that the formation of the National Register of Citizen (NRC) and the subsequent enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are
READ MOREPompeo’s Chabahar ‘gift’ small consolation for India0
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- January 9, 2020
By M.K. Bhadrakumar | January 8, 2020 | Asia Times Sometimes a crisis is needed to judge the efficacy of a country’s regional policies. The US-Iran confrontation is one such moment for India. In retrospect, the India-US meeting of foreign and defense ministers in the 2+2 format in Washington on December 18 stands out as an embarrassment.
READ MOREMuslims targeted in India’s most populous state0
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- January 4, 2020
Protests against controversial religion-based citizenship law continue to spread across the country By Saikat Datta, New Delhi 4 January 2020 Muslims living in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, are bearing the brunt as protests against the religion-based citizenship law continue to grow across the country. Several reports show that the state’s actions to quell
READ MOREAung San Suu Kyi: my fallen hero0
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- December 18, 2019
By Mayyu Ali December 18, 2019 There was a portrait hung in my grandpa’s house that was bewitching and fascinating to me as a child. It was flower-beaded around the tiny rigid frame. In the portrait was a woman with an unruly fringe falling across black eyebrows, a flower in hair coiled in a cylindrical
READ MOREAs rage spreads, time to ask what India voted for0
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- December 16, 2019
The last six months of the Narendra Modi government have been marred by violence and chaos By Saikat Datta, New Delhi 16 December 2019 As violence and rage spread across India over the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), it is time to ask what Indians voted for just seven months ago in the general elections.
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