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Ethnic Dimensions of South Asia 0
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- February 13, 2017
Ethnic Dimensions of South Asia Dr. Rajkumar Singh Introduction The terms ‘ethnic and ethnicity’ are used to include religious, racial, linguistic, tribal and similar divides which have been activated in the sociopolitical conflict in the present age. It is associated with a sense of identity arising from shared customs, language and culture, physical characteristics, and
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CPEC AND THE CASE FOR COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING 2
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- February 13, 2017
CPEC AND THE CASE FOR COMMUNITY CAPACITY BUILDING Ally R Memon The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), now increasingly operational, boasts of building further business ties along the Silk Road with various nations showing interests in the trading route. CPEC is set to change the strategic and geopolitical dimensions of the region with global logistical power
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Education Reforms in Indian Union Budget 2017-2018: What Pakistan Can Learn From Them?0
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- February 13, 2017
Education Reforms in Indian Union Budget 2017-2018: What Pakistan Can Learn From Them? Source: tribune.com.pk Maria Amjad On 1st February 2017, Indian Finance Minister Aryan Jaitley presented the Unionist Budget of India for the year 2017-2018. The very next day, newspapers in Pakistan were brimming with the news of 10 percent hikes in Indian defense
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The Jury Is Out: Armed Forces, Not India, Stalled JRJ’s ‘Jaffna Advance’0
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- February 13, 2017
The Jury Is Out: Armed Forces, Not India, Stalled JRJ’s ‘Jaffna Advance’ N Sathiya Moorthy, The Sunday Leader, Colombo, 12 February 2017 It’s sad that based merely on speculative assessments that India’s ‘Operation Garland’ of air-dropping food and medicines to the civilian population, bilateral relations had been allowed to flounder It needs to be recalled that
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EXCLUSIVE – Going into politics: Detained Pakistani militant tests the system 0
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- February 12, 2017
EXCLUSIVE – Going into politics: Detained Pakistani militant tests the system By Azaz Syed by James M. Dorsey Muhammad Hafez Saeed, the recently detained UN and US-designated global terrorist and one of the world’s most wanted men, plans to register his group, Jama’at-ud-Dawa (JuD), widely seen as a front for another proscribed organization, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT),
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Election Commission; Nepal, Bangladesh and a Reality Check in South Asia 0
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- February 12, 2017
Election Commission; Nepal, Bangladesh and a Reality Check in South Asia (Excerpted from his work in Bengali) M Sakhawat Hossain Lately, I have been working on a research project on Electoral Administration, Election Commission and the appropriate support that needs to be accorded to the Commission. It requires an extensive study. So I started with
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Bangladesh’s Submarines from China: Implications for Bay of Bengal Security 0
- Blog, Issue 20 - Spring 2017
- February 12, 2017
Bangladesh’s Submarines from China: Implications for Bay of Bengal Security Nilanthi Samaranayake Synopsis Bangladesh’s acquisition of two submarines from China should not be narrowly viewed through the prism of India-China geopolitics. Rather, it should be understood in a wider context as a milestone by a modernising naval power in the Bay of Bengal. Commentary THE
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DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMOCRACY 0
- Blog, Issue 20 - Spring 2017
- February 11, 2017
Palace of Westminster, London DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF DEMOCRACY Government of the people, by the people and for the people (No. 1 of series to be published in the future) F R Chowdhury We all know democracy means “government of the people, by the people and for the people” as stated by Abraham Lincoln. But there
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Trump pressured to confront Pakistan on support for militants 0
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- February 10, 2017
Trump pressured to confront Pakistan on support for militants By James M. Dorsey Pressure on the Trump administration is mounting to adopt a tougher position towards Pakistani support of militants in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan itself. The pressure comes from a chorus of voices that include the US military, members of Congress from both
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Protecting Militants: China blocks UN listing of Pakistani as a globally designated terrorist 0
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- February 8, 2017
Protecting Militants: China blocks UN listing of Pakistani as a globally designated terrorist By James M. Dorsey China, at the behest of Pakistan, has prevented the United Nations from listing a prominent Pakistani militant as a globally designated terrorist. China’s protection of Masood Azhar, who is believed to have close ties to Pakistani intelligence and
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The Vested Property Repeal (Return) Act 2001, A Road to Solution or the Perpetuation of Deprivation of the Hindu Minorities in Bangladesh 0
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- February 8, 2017
The Vested Property Repeal (Return) Act 2001 A Road to Solution or the Perpetuation of Deprivation of the Hindu Minorities in Bangladesh Upal Aditya Oikya ABSTRACT The right to own (inherit) property is a fundamental right, and neither an individual nor the State can snatch away this right arbitrarily. This paper has tried to
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Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India 0
- Blog, Issue 20 - Spring 2017, Reviews
- February 8, 2017
HARDCOVER $61.00 • £48.95 • €55.00, ISBN 9780674057791, Publication: April 2011 356 pages, 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches, 3 halftones, 4 maps Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Partition of India A Review Paper BY Taj Hashmi “Your history gets in the way of my memory. I am everything you lost. You can’t forgive me…
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Burma: Rakhine State Violence Could Be Crime Against Humanity – UN 0
- Blog, Issue 20 - Spring 2017
- February 7, 2017
Burma: Rakhine State Violence Could Be Crime Against Humanity – UN Location of Burma. Source: CIA World Factbook. By UN News February 7, 2017 The scale of violence against the Rohingya community in Myanmar’s Rakhine state documented in a recent United Nations human rights report is a level of dehumanization and cruelty that is “revolting
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A New US Approach To Pakistan: Enforcing Aid Conditions Without Cutting Ties – Analysis 0
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- February 7, 2017
A New US Approach To Pakistan: Enforcing Aid Conditions Without Cutting Ties Flags of United States and Pakistan By Hudson Institue February 6, 2017 By Husain Haqqani and Lisa Curtis* The new Trump Administration must review its policies toward Pakistan in order to more effectively contain, and eventually eliminate, the terrorist threats that continue to
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