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  • Why Indians and Pakistanis Want a War0

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    • September 21, 2019

    Most South Asians are too young to have experienced the horrors of the conflicts fought in the region. That’s one reason why they’re quick to clamor for one. BY SHIVAM VIJ | SEPTEMBER 19, 2019 As the world’s media once again covers familiar flash points between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed states, one fact is often ignored: The

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  • Western Accolades Are Egging Autocrats On0

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    • September 17, 2019

    Western Accolades Are Egging Autocrats On The Gates Foundation is giving an award to Narendra Modi. That’s a big mistake. By Azad Essa | September 17, 2019 On Sept. 2, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it was honoring India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his efforts to build toilets and end open

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    • September 11, 2019

    Detained in Kashmir; From politicians to activists to children, India is running out of space for its prisoners. By Yashraj Sharma | September 9, 2019 SRINAGAR, Kashmir—Around the Soura neighborhood of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, civilians have dug trenches and built wood, tin, and barbed wire blockades. Standing next to a bonfire near

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  • Myanmar wants to introduce National Verification Cards for the Rohingya, a persecuted Muslim minority in the country0

    Myanmar Wants to Track Rohingya, Not Help Them The U.N. is wrong to support national ID cards that could backfire on the persecuted minority. BY AZEEM IBRAHIM | AUGUST 1, 2019 Foreign Policy Magazine Papers matter for refugees. They get you across borders, they prove your claims if there’s ever a chance to return home, and they record

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  • India Faces a Looming Disaster0

    Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is an election-winning machine. But its ideology is sharply at odds with economic or social common sense. BY SUMIT GANGULY, JAI SHANKAR PRASAD | JULY 27, 2019 Last May, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has long espoused a form of muscular Hindu nationalism, returned to power for a second term after winning

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  • Why India Is Mad at Trump0

    Understanding the president’s Kashmir bombshell—and why it matters. By FP Editors | July 23, 2019 On Monday, early in the afternoon in Washington, D.C., and around the time most people in New Delhi were going to bed, U.S. President Donald Trump livened up a press conference with a revelation that would shake relations between the

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  • Spilling the Tea in Sri Lanka0

    As large colonial-era tea plantations crumble, family-owned plots are trying to take their place and save the industry. BY PHILIP YIANNOPOULOS JULY 8, 2019 For nearly a year now, Priyantha Gamage, the son of a Tamil tea plucker, has been documenting the scars and scabs of the tea plantation workers on the Deniyaya Estate in the

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  • Muslim Leaders Are Betraying the Uighurs0

    The Trump administration has done more for the millions in camps than any Islamic leader. By Azeem Ibrahim | July 8, 2019 Empty streets. Sprawling encampments in the desert nearby, spoken of in hushed whispers. That’s what a modern terror regime looks like. More than 1 million Muslim Uighurs in the Xinjiang region of China,

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  • Orban and Aung San Suu Kyi Gave in to Hate the Same Way0

    The two Oxford-educated leaders once preached liberal values—but found bigotry more convenient. BY AZEEM IBRAHIM | JUNE 18, 2019 Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her pro-democracy activism and her resilience in advocating for the cause of democracy in the face of terrible repression by the socialist military junta of Myanmar.

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  • Be Afraid of the World, Be Very Afraid0

    Five global problems that are getting worse—and may never get better. By Stephen M. Walt | May 20, 2019 Who’s right: Cassandra or Dr. Pangloss? Are we on the brink of serious trouble, as Cassandra of Greek myth prophesied, or is all for the best “in this best of all possible worlds,” as the fictional

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  • ISIS’s New Target: South Asia; The Sri Lanka attacks should put the region on alert.0

    BY HARSH V. PANT, KABIR TANEJA | MAY 2, 2019 Foreign Policy Magazine The Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka have brought the island nation to the forefront of the global terrorism discourse. The Islamic State militant group, via its quasi-official Amaq News outlet, took credit for the attacks, releasing pictures and videos of the alleged attackers. The video

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  • The Pakistani Military’s Worst Nightmare Is Coming True0

    A human rights movement from Waziristan is finally bringing the country together to challenge the brass. By Daud Khattak | April 30, 2019 For decades, Pakistan’s powerful military has been in control of the country’s politics whether directly, as during several decades of military dictatorships, or indirectly, as during attempts by civilian leaders to reassert

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  • India’s Media Is War-Crazy0

    Journalism is taking a back seat to jingoism. By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar | March 1, 2019 If India and Pakistan ever resolve their conflict, it won’t be thanks to the Indian media. Ever since a suicide attack in Pulwama, Kashmir, killed more than 40 paramilitary Indian soldiers on Feb. 14, India’s television news networks have been

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  • Pakistan Doesn’t Want Modi to Win – Foreign Policy0

    A BJP victory in India’s upcoming election could spell more trouble for the relationship. By Fahd Humayun | March 27, 2019 It was not particularly surprising when India boycotted the Pakistan Day celebrations at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi last weekend. Just weeks before, an extraordinary duel in the air above disputed Kashmir

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