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Issue 25 – Summer 2018
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- Issue 25 – Summer 2018
Maldives: Ahead of presidential polls, West going slow on Yameen?0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 24, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 24 April 2018 Through separate but related developments, involving the UNHRC and the EU, the international community (read: West) seems to have resigned to the possibility/inevitability of talking Maldivian democracy with incumbent Abdulla Yameen even after the presidential polls, scheduled for September-October. If it came to that, India as the immediate but recently-estranged
READ MOREEconomic Growth Can Help Afghanistan0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 20, 2018
M Ashraf Haidari | APR 18, 2018 SYRIA, North Korea, and Yemen have largely dominated headlines. But Afghanistan also remains in the global conscience. If anything, the much-needed international focus on the campaign against the Taliban has outlined how difficult the fight has become, despite our steady military gains. Frustrated with what many are mistakenly
READ MOREBhutan’s China Policy0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 19, 2018
Abstract Bhutan and China represent two ends of the international system, one being a small power and the other a great power. The annexation of Tibet by China and Bhutan’s close historical and political affinity with India put Bhutan into a dilemma and force always them to pose a question – ‘how to deal with
READ MORESo-called Nepal Experts In India Create Havoc Between Two Countries’ Relationship0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 14, 2018
BY HARI PRASAD SHRESTHA 14/4/2018 During the recent India visit of Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli, it has been observed that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted, to some level that he was misguided by the so-called Nepal experts – during the promulgation of Constitution of Nepal in 2015 and Nepal India
READ MOREAggressive Indian posture, Kashmir human rights violations feed extremism: Husain Haqqani0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 13, 2018
April 12, 2018 New Delhi: Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, told an Indian audience that an aggressive Indian posture and human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir feed the extremist narrative in Pakistan and Indians neither encourage centrifugal forces or nor express the desire for the collapse of the Pakistani state.
READ MOREBook review: Bangladesh – Political and Literary Reflections on A Divided Country0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
- April 11, 2018
by R Chowdhury April 11, 2018 A comment, with particular reference to Bangladesh National Anthem Congratulations to Dr. Jalal Khan. I greatly appreciate his patience and diligence. I can visualize the amount of painstaking efforts that have gone in collecting a mountain of materials and references for his book, Bangladesh: Political and Literary Reflections
READ MOREBangladesh – Stifling opposition at all costs0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 11, 2018
by South Asia Journal 10/4/2018 Human rights groups in Bangladesh have been issuing reports after reports about the state-sponsored abductions and crossfire killings to muzzle dissent. Currently, university students nationwide have come out in droves to protest the government’s quota system into the civil servant jobs wherein 54% of these lucrative jobs are reserved
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The Baloch and identity – How Pakistan dealt with the question of identities; Balochistan and Gwadar Port0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 9, 2018
Pakistan as a post-colonial state has deployed two forms of reductionism against identities. One is identity disregard entailing either ignoring or neglecting them altogether. Second is singular affiliation which takes the form of assuming that particular person preeminently belongs to one collectivity only while subsuming all others. Both are toxic, incitement to ignore all affiliations
READ MOREThe Art of War in Global Politics: Whither South Asia?0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 9, 2018
Abu Sufian Shamrat The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected (Sun Tzu). However, the history of art of war roots back
READ MORENeutralizing The Messengers Of India0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 8, 2018
By Nava Thakuria April 8, 2018 India continues to be a dangerous place for working journalists as the largest democracy in the globe has lost three journalists in mysterious accidents within the first three months of the year. Even the UN secretary general Antonio Guterres came out with a strong condemnation against the journo-killings
READ MORESHIA-SUNNI CONFLICT IN JAMMU AND KASHMIR: A BEACON OF HOPE2
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 6, 2018
Sect formation is not peculiar to the religion of Islam; however, the sectarian violence demonstrated all along in the Muslim world is a new phenomenon. What is happening between Shia and Sunni in a different nation of the world is less a result of theological dispute than the politics of the time in which Saudi
READ MOREBook Review; The Raisina Model; Indian Democracy at 700
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
- April 5, 2018
Indian democracy at 70 by Meghnand Desai by Zaboor Ahmad April 5, 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking on 7th February 2018 in Indian Parliament made the following claim about India’s democracy. “India did not get democracy due to Pandit Nehru, as Congress wants us to believe. Please look at our rich history.
READ MOREBANGLADESH; SOME OLD PREDICTIONS ARE BECOMING REALITY0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- April 4, 2018
F R Chowdhury 4/4/2018 In 1971, I was still a merchant marine officer. We used to call at Chittagong frequently but did not have much social contact in Chittagong. It was immediately after the liberation of Bangladesh that I joined the Chittagong Port Authority as a marine pilot. My official designation was Assistant
READ MOREWhy Scams Are Here to Stay0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
- March 30, 2018
Book Review ‘Corruption is a problem of political economy.’ We live in the midst of scams and scandals- a scoundrel times, but simultaneously we also have become accustomed to corruption. The book under review is an attempt to get the measure of political corruption in contemporary India and see what could be done to combat
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