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Issue 29 – Summer 2019
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Sri Lanka’s 4/21 Moment; A Way Forward to Countering Violent Extremism5
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 29, 2019
Zahrah Imtiaz, Dambaru Ballav Subedi, and Muttukrishna Sarvananthan Sri Lanka is once again in the spotlight of the world; regretfully for ugly and vile reasons. This is Sri Lanka’s 4/21 moment (ala 9/11 in the USA and 11/26 in India). The Easter Sunday massacre of gigantic proportions (253 dead and still counting among a total
READ MOREIs India’s influence still strong in Nepal?0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 28, 2019
by HARI PRASAD SHRESTHA 28 April 2019 Being a poor, landlocked country, Nepal has been under an obligation of external forces on major affairs of its national importance. There is no doubt that India is the primary external player meddling in Nepal’s internal affairs. After that western countries, China and the USA are important players,
READ MORESri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: The ISIS Owns it, So What?0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 28, 2019
by Taj Hashmi 28 April2019 Thanks to so many absurd and conflicting stories and claims by experts, laymen, victims and purported perpetrators, 9/11 gave birth to so many conspiracy theories, similarly, this Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka on 20thApril have also brought us to the threshold of multiple claims and theories about who
READ MOREWater security in South Asia and China1
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 26, 2019
by Sabena Siddiqi 26 April 2019 Throughout history, hydro-politics has remained a significant factor in geopolitics as water is life. Essential for economic growth, sustainable development and food and energy security, water reserves have started depleting since the turn of the new century and climate changes are making matters worse. According to the World Economic
READ MOREChina’s Engagement with Smaller South Asian Countries0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 26, 2019
By Nilanthi Samaranayake 26 April 2019 Summary • The smaller South Asian (SSA) countries maintain different levels of interaction with China, ranging from Bhutan, which has no formal diplomatic relations with China, to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, which have the strongest military and economic ties, respectively. • On balance, SSA countries have benefited from China’s
READ MORETerrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka; New wave of radicalisation or taking advantage of the trust deficit?0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 23, 2019
Ali Riaz 23 April 2019 The wave of terrorist attacks in Sri Lankan churches and hotels frequented by foreigners, which killed at least 290 people and injured around 500, is astounding both in scale and sophistication in planning. This is undoubtedly one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in South Asia in the past decade.
READ MOREBangladesh paying a price for hosting refugees0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 22, 2019
The loss of forests and the ecological damage caused by almost one million refugees has taken a toll ByBertil Lintner, Chiang Mai 22 April 2019 Bangladesh is paying a heavy price for hosting hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar. According to an article on the Bangladesh Chronicle’s website on April 20, the
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The Truth behind Pulwama & Balakot- The road ahead0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 20, 2019
Forty Indian troops of CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) were killed in an attack on Jammu Kashmir National Highway in Pulwama district, Kashmir on 14th February 2019. The perpetrator of this suicide mission was a local Kashmiri man, Adil Ahmad Dar. Pakistan based group JEM (Jaish-e-Mohammed) claimed responsibility for this attack. The aforesaid incident
READ MOREMainstream political parties as partners in the manifold tragedy of Kashmir0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 17, 2019
Representing Delhi in Srinagar, but sadly not the other way round has been a spectacular betrayal by the mainstream parties to the people of Kashmir The issue of the role that the mainstream politicians in the J&K state have played ever since 1947 when the first civilian government was installed in the state merits a
READ MOREBangladesh: Falsification In the Name Of Progress0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 16, 2019
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable. —-George Orwell Sabria Chowdhury Balland 17 April 2019 If there is one thing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League party repeat incessantly, it is that they are the only party in the country that can bring about progress and development. This
READ MOREIndia fuelled Hasina’s decision to oust Yunus0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 7, 2019
April 6, 2019 India fuelled Hasina’s decision to oust Yunus Yunus faced Hasina’s direct ire after she returned to power in early 2009. BZ Khasru | New Delhi | April 5, 2019 The Statesman Professor Muhammad Yunus attended the Girl’s Day Gala night on March 28, 2019 at the Stand Speak Rise Up Summit in Luxembourg,
READ MOREBangladesh; Back to BAKSAL?0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 6, 2019
Bangladesh has clearly crossed the midline on the continuum between full democracy and closed autocracy, writes William Milam by William Milam April 5, 2019 According to a report carried in a Bangladeshi news service, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ruminated about Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL) in an address at an award ceremony on March
READ MOREMODI’S RULE AND INDIA’S UNBOUND OPPORTUNITIES; book review0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019, Reviews
- April 5, 2019
by Muzamil Yaqoob 5 April 2019 At a time when Indian political scene is strained under the Right-wing populism, there is a great hue and cry around the next parliamentary elections. The performance of ruling dispensation is largely been debated and analysed on multiple parameters. The rising unemployment and jobless growth with mounting inflation are
READ MORESheikh Mujibur Rahman: A Man of Ten Seconds?0
- Commentary, Issue 29 – Summer 2019
- April 3, 2019
by R. Chowdhury 4 April 2019 Yes, 10 seconds. While celebrating anything about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—there are scores of them– his party and sycophants have only one thing to show: A ten-second video footage of his March 7, 1971 speech, eliminating the remaining 1010 seconds of the delivery. As if that heavily edited ten-second oratory
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