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India: Punjab-Politics: Whose Victory? 0
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- September 19, 2021
Image credit Youtube; Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Calls Meeting At His Residence After Sidhu Camp Approached High Command by Nilofar Suhrawardy 20 September 2021 Just ahead of assembly elections, change of guard in Punjab, as well as Gujarat, doesn’t spell much of a surprise as several other chief ministers have been subject to the same
READ MORETaliban regime: challenges ahead0
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- September 16, 2021
Since the fall of Kabul in mid-August, there is uncertainty about the future political set up on one hand and challenges of recognition on the other to the Taliban. Though the Taliban are constantly assuring the world about human and women rights, freedom of the press and a stable political setup yet the world is
READ MOREBANGLADESH’S TAIL-SPINNING ECONOMY HEADED FOR A CRASH?0
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- September 16, 2021
By: Shahid Islam 16 September 2021 Governments must not mislead the public. Bangladesh finance minister Mostofa Kamal’s statement that per capita foreign debt amounts to about taka 25,000 was a half truth. The minister should have added how much the per capita international debt is, and, rounded up the data to let the people
READ MOREOpposing Hindutva: US conference raises troubling questions0
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- September 16, 2021
by Jams M Dorsey 16 September 2021 Controversy over a recent ‘Dismantling Global Hindutava’ conference that targeted a politically charged expression of Hindu nationalism raises questions that go far beyond the anti-Muslim discriminatory policies of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and ruling party. The conference and responses to it highlight a debilitating deterioration in
READ MOREINDIA’S 5TH GENERATION WARFARE AGAINST PAKISTAN0
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- September 16, 2021
By Sher Bano 16 September 2021 5th generation warfare or hybrid warfare could be defined as a new advancement in the modern warfare where cultural war gains or information are considered more important than use of hard power in battle field during 3rd or 4th generation warfare. But India is using 5th generation warfare against
READ MOREBangladesh: Zia Continues to Dominate Awami Politics 0
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- September 14, 2021
by Ahmad Shihab 14 September 2021 “To resurrect Mujib,” RAW implied to Hasina, “you have to destroy Zia.” Sheikh Hasina was on self-exile in India from 1975 and was under extensive brainwashing treatment under the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s external intelligence. She returned to Bangladesh in 1981. Within two weeks,
READ MOREQuagmire of American Imperialism in Afghanistan and Beyond0
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- September 14, 2021
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 14 September 2021 Many commentators from different ideological orientations provide a false equivalence of American withdrawal from Afghanistan with the fall of Saigon. It is false because American imperialism was thoroughly defeated by the revolutionary programmes and fighting spirit of Viet Cong. It led to rise of united, egalitarian, democratic,
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Book review: Abdul Basit, Hostility- A diplomat’s diary on Pakistan India relations0
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- September 14, 2021
Noida: Harper Collins Publisher, 2021, 294 pp, Rs. 799, P- ISBN 978-9354226458 India has had a history of border disputes with its neighbours. The most prominent and ever existing is the Kashmir dispute with Pakistan. The departure of the British from the Indian subcontinent left behind this most talked about South Asian border dispute.
READ MOREPakistan’s Friendship With the Taliban Is Changing0
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- September 14, 2021
Expect a recalibration of the relationship by both sides now the Taliban are in power. By Michael Kugelman, the writer of Foreign Policy’s weekly South Asia Brief. SEPTEMBER 13, 2021, 4:00 AM The Taliban takeover in Afghanistan has delivered a strategic victory to Pakistan, establishing a friendly government in Kabul for the first time in nearly 20
READ MOREInitial Taliban moves fail to convince Afghanistan’s neighbours0
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- September 14, 2021
by James M. Dorsey 14 September 2021 The Taliban’s record in recent weeks on making good on promises to respect human and women’s rights as well as uphold freedom of the press is mixed at best. Afghanistan’s neighbours and near-neighbours are not holding their breath even if some are willing to give the Central
READ MOREFire, Floods and Felonies: Why Relocation Remains the Only Viable Option Left for Rohingyas0
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- September 14, 2021
Image source: The author by Habibur Rahman 14 September 2021 The mighty monsoon of Bangladesh has once again triggered flash floods and landslides in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh where more than one million Rohingyas are living in crowded camps since 2017. The flood of late July claimed 11 Rohingya lives so far,
READ MORENuclear Deterrence in South Asia: Enhancing Security or Insecurity?0
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- September 12, 2021
by Venkkat G. 12 September 2021 In midst of one of the most turbulent phases of world history in the early 1940s, at around the same time when Manhattan Project was conceptualized to develop the world’s first Nuclear weapon, an equally explosive idea gained ground in the Indian sub-continent. The Muslim League adopted the
READ MOREThe Kharasrota River Not for Sale0
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- September 12, 2021
by Bhabani Shankar Nayak 12 September 2021 The people of Kendrapada district of Odisha are fighting peacefully for last two years to save their river Kharasrota. This river is the lifeline of farmers, fishing communities and other communities living besides the river. The Kharasrota river is the source of life and livelihoods for the people
READ MOREOnly international sanctions against senior Bangladeshi politicians and security czars will stop enforced disappearances.0
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- September 11, 2021
How to empty Bangladesh’s secret detention cells David Bergman September 10, 2021 A screenshot taken from an article in the Guardian in 2011 of a hand-drawn map showing secret detention cells in Bangladesh, drawn by a person who was detained there. The Bangladesh government must think it has more to gain from continuing to pick up and
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