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- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 8, 2019
As Trump comes under increasing pressure from House Democrats for what appear to be illegal acts, he is blindly defended by Republicans in Congress, writes William Milam by William Milam March 8, 2019 Two friends sent me last week a video from an Al Jazeera TV show called Head to Head, a similar to the
READ MORELegal storm clouds gather over Diego Garcia0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 8, 2019
March 8, 2019 An aerial view of America’s leased Diego Garcia military base in the Indian Ocean. Photo: Facebook Legal storm clouds gather over Diego Garcia An International Court of Justice advisory could eventually upend America’s long-held lease on the strategic Indian Ocean military facility ByBertil Lintner, Chiang Mai Recent skirmishes between India and Pakistan
READ MORENepal moving closer to China through connectivity0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 6, 2019
by HARI PRASAD SHRESTHA 6 March 2019 In fact, many Nepalis have little knowledge about Nepal’s relation with Tibet that it was easier and safe compared to travel towards south at least until the 19th century. As a sociologist, Dor Bahadur Bista mentions, until the beginning of the 19th century, Nepal shared a greater cultural
READ MOREPakistan: Intractable Positions0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 6, 2019
Oct 03 2018 By Aparna Pande Narinder Nanu—AFP Pakistan and India will not be able to achieve peaceful ties unless both are willing to sacrifice long-standing issues The failure of the latest attempt at resuming talks between India and Pakistan reflects the inability of both governments to make an extremely difficult political decision. Pakistan’s leaders
READ MORE‘Engagement,’ not ‘Estrangement’ can de-escalate Indo-Pak Tension in the 21st Century: An Opinion0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 4, 2019
Sandeep Singh 4 March 2019 A thought can be put up that business and economic cooperation between India and Pakistan transcending politics can help both countries to dominate the 21st-century Eurasian space. Their cooperation would not only bring plenty of opportunities to bolster peace and prosperity in South Asia but also help in integrating Eurasian
READ MOREOnce the backbone of Middle Eastern protests, ultras are down but not out0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019, Reviews
- March 4, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 4 March 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr Ali Issa Ahmad, a British football fan, who was lingering earlier this year in jail in the United Arab Emirates for wearing a Qatari soccer jersey during the 2019 Asian Cup that
READ MOREDemocracy In Bangladesh: The Silence Is Deafening 0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 4, 2019
by Sabria Chowdhury Balland 4 March 2019 The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men. —Plato The aforementioned quote was chosen for this piece as it reversely relates to the current socio-political climate in Bangladesh, where the apathy of the general public towards the political future of the country did not give
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The Kashmir problem and the ‘Entente of Evil’1
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 3, 2019
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui 3 March 2019 Perhaps the most important event last week was Pakistan’s magnanimous release of the captured Indian pilot. Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Thursday to release captured Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan on Friday as a ‘gesture of peace’. However, in the same breath he warned India that
READ MOREThe Next India-Pakistan Crisis Will Be Worse0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 2, 2019
March 1, 2019 by Michael Kugelman With both sides now willing to climb higher up the escalation ladder, a future nuclear exchange could become a far less remote prospect. The last few days have been downright scary in South Asia. India and Pakistan, the only two rivals in the world to be both neighbors and nuclear
READ MORE‘Pulwama’, ‘Balakot’, Modi, Imran Khan, Wing Commander Avinandan, War Cry, Peace Appeal etc. etc: What do we make of all these?1
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 2, 2019
2 March 2019 M. Adil Khan[1] Whole thing started with Pulwama in Kashmir in Indian Kashmir where a suicide bomber attacked an Indian army convoy and killed 40 soldiers. The incident has happened in the wake of upcoming general election in India which also coincides with Modi’s plummeting popularity that have made some people looking
READ MOREBangladesh: An Open Letter to Dr. Gowher Rizvi. Oxford Union debate telecast on Aljazeera3
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 1, 2019
Taj Hashmi 1 March 2019 Dear Gowher: In hindsight, I think I should have written this letter ten years back, days after you became the International Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. I am sorry, I failed miserably to perform my duty as a friend towards a very good old friend on time.
READ MOREWho benefits from the Indo-Pak war?0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 1, 2019
Ali Riaz | Prothom Alo Mar 1, 2019 The perennial conflict between India and Pakistan has now taken on proportions of direct military conflict. There is no saying that this will not evolve into a full-fledged war. There is still time to bring things under control, but no room for complacence. Even a limited war
READ MOREIndia Pakistan Borders: Cartography without Geographical Frontiers0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- February 28, 2019
The first comprehensive frontier concept was explicitly expressed by Lord Curzon in his Romanes lectures at Oxford in 1907. The deciding factor in carving geographical boundaries in Indian subcontinent was the outcome of rivalry between Great Britain and Russia, the boundaries of North Western frontiers in South Asia is British creation. The boundary line between
READ MOREAfghan Peace Talks: Revisiting the Indian and Pakistani Stakes in Afghanistan0
- Commentary, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- February 26, 2019
by Dr. Mudassir Fatah 26 February 2019 For the first time in the last seventeen years of war in Afghanistan, peace agreement looks possible. After the six days of continuous deliberations in Doha, both sides, Taliban leaders and Zalmay Khalilzad (US Special representative and the chief American negotiator) seemed hopeful regarding the peace deal. But
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