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Bangladesh’s diplomatic blunder in the Middle East0
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- May 10, 2018
Credit : Benar news M A Hossain 10/5/2018 When Saudi King Salman accorded a royal reception to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and sought Dhaka’s active participation in the Saudi-led coalition by sending Bangladeshi troops, Hasina gave a cautious reply. She vowed to send troops only if the holy mosques in Mecca
READ MORECologne Declaration on The Rohingya Crisis and Solution0
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- May 10, 2018
By Habib Siddiqui 10/5/2018 Cologne Declaration on The Rohingya Crisis and Solution [Forwarded by Habib Siddiqui, a participant to the conference in Germany] Preamble: Humans’ right to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness are inalienable These rights cannot be usurped nor can they be violated by any government, people, or community. Perpetrators
READ MOREGlobal Trends of Maritime Piracy0
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- May 10, 2018
Muhammad Abbas Hassan Maritime transport is the backbone of international trade and the global economy. Around 80 percent of global trade by volume and over 70 percent of global trade by value are carried by sea and are handled by ports worldwide. These shares are even higher in the case of most developing countries.
READ MORESri Lanka; Bench-marking Cabinet berths!0
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- May 10, 2018
Sathiya Moorthy, 10 May 2018 In London recently for the Commonwealth Summit, President Maithiripala Sirisena was reported to have told the BBC Sinhala channel that those selected for Cabinet positions ‘must not only be acceptable locally but also internationally’. Though the question reportedly pertained to the choice for Law and Order Minister, the President was quoted as
READ MOREPlaying US sanctions: China walks a fine line in Iran0
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- May 10, 2018
By James M. Dorsey 10/5/2018 Chinese businessman Sheng Kuan Li didn’t worry about sanctions when he decided in 2010 to invest $200 million in a steel mill in Iran that started producing ingots and billet within months of the lifting of punitive measures against the Islamic republic as part of 2015 international nuclear
READ MOREAPPLAUD PAKISTAN ARMY CHIEF’S PEACE CALL0
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- May 9, 2018
N. S. Venkataraman 9/5/2018 It is reported that Pakistan’s army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa has recognized that way to peace and prosperity in Pakistan is through cooperation with India. U K based think tank Royal Unites Services Institute (RUSI) has said in its analytical report that the Pakistan army chief made
READ MOREMyanmar: Journalists are treated as enemies of state0
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- May 9, 2018
M A Hossain 9/5/2018 A mock defender of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression, Aung San Suu Kyi, had already shown her real face. Myanmar arrested Reuters journalist Wa Longe and Kyaw Soe Oo for the ‘crime’ of exposing the murder of 10 Rohingya Muslims by the monstrous army of that country.
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Should Nepalese Be Banned from Joining Foreign Armies?0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- May 9, 2018
By Hari Prasad Shrestha 9/5/2018 The slogan of barring Nepalese from joining foreign armies seems to be more political agendas to attract people’s attention rather than start dialogue with Britain and India to stop its recruitment. In line with series of efforts to bar Nepalese in foreign armies, recently a work plan
READ MORESUGGESTIONS TO GOVERNMENT OF INDIA ON TACKLING CAUVERY ISSUE0
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- May 9, 2018
N.S. Venkataraman 9/5/2018 After several decades of disputes between Tamil Nadu and Karnataka on sharing of Cauvery water, Supreme Court has given a firm judgment that Cauvery Water Management Board should be set up and also fixed the share of Cauvery water between the states. While the government of India
READ MORESri Lanka: On the ‘letter and the spirit’ of ‘India Accord-87’0
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- May 8, 2018
N Sathiya Moorthy 7 May 2018 It is sad that 40 years after it was signed to end the ethnic strife in Sri Lanka and a decade after the conclusion of the ‘ethnic war’, someone still should have to talk about the Rajiv-Jayawardene Accord of 1987, whose aim was to end the strife
READ MOREChristian and Hazara minorities under attack in Quetta, Pakistan0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues
- May 5, 2018
Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa during a meeting in Quetta to address grievances of the Hazara community on May 1, 2018. PHOTO: ISPR Once again, in April, Christian and Hazara minority communities were killed by militant groups repeatedly in Quetta, Pakistan. Religious minorities feel that the Islamic Republic of Pakistan has failed to
READ MOREAsian Giants roads towards Public Diplomacy0
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- May 5, 2018
by Anza Zafar 5/5/2018 Asia is a region being known to involve in a massive arms race, but recently another race that has been going in the region is the race of image making abroad. In the foreign policies of China and India, the public diplomacy is given huge importance. As both the states
READ MOREMuslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Myanmar; Is the Despotic and Dictatorial Hasina in Bangladesh hopelessly Abandoned by Her “Too Friendly, But More Unfriendly” Immediate Neighbors?0
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- May 5, 2018
Is the Despotic and Dictatorial Hasina in Bangladesh hopelessly Abandoned by Her “Too Friendly, But More Unfriendly” Immediate Neighbors? By: Jalal Uddin Khan, Ph.D. (Canada) 5/5/2018 Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. (Shakespeare’s As
READ MOREDefeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War0
- Commentary, Issue 25 – Summer 2018, Issues, Reviews
- May 5, 2018
Book Review by Adnan Qaiser, May 2018 Adnan Qaiser, a Research Associate at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute, Canada, with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy, reviews Myra MacDonald’s book on Indo-Pakistan relations. The author can be reached at a.qaiser1@yahoo.com Rarely is history narrated in whole truth; it stays the
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