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‘Engagement,’ not ‘Estrangement’ can de-escalate Indo-Pak Tension in the 21st Century: An Opinion0
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- March 4, 2019
Sandeep Singh 4 March 2019 A thought can be put up that business and economic cooperation between India and Pakistan transcending politics can help both countries to dominate the 21st-century Eurasian space. Their cooperation would not only bring plenty of opportunities to bolster peace and prosperity in South Asia but also help in integrating Eurasian
READ MOREOnce the backbone of Middle Eastern protests, ultras are down but not out0
- Commentary, Reviews
- March 4, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 4 March 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr Ali Issa Ahmad, a British football fan, who was lingering earlier this year in jail in the United Arab Emirates for wearing a Qatari soccer jersey during the 2019 Asian Cup that
READ MORETurkish-Chinese spat puts Central Asian leaders on the spot0
- Commentary
- March 4, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 4 March 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr A Turkish-Chinese spat as a result of Turkish criticism of China’s crackdown on Turkic Muslims in its strategic but troubled north-western province of Xinjiang complicates efforts by Kazakhstan and other Central Asian
READ MOREDemocracy In Bangladesh: The Silence Is Deafening 0
- Commentary
- March 4, 2019
by Sabria Chowdhury Balland 4 March 2019 The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men. —Plato The aforementioned quote was chosen for this piece as it reversely relates to the current socio-political climate in Bangladesh, where the apathy of the general public towards the political future of the country did not give
READ MOREThe Kashmir problem and the ‘Entente of Evil’1
- Commentary
- March 3, 2019
By Dr. Habib Siddiqui 3 March 2019 Perhaps the most important event last week was Pakistan’s magnanimous release of the captured Indian pilot. Prime Minister Imran Khan announced Thursday to release captured Indian Air Force pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan on Friday as a ‘gesture of peace’. However, in the same breath he warned India that
READ MOREThe Next India-Pakistan Crisis Will Be Worse0
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- March 2, 2019
March 1, 2019 by Michael Kugelman With both sides now willing to climb higher up the escalation ladder, a future nuclear exchange could become a far less remote prospect. The last few days have been downright scary in South Asia. India and Pakistan, the only two rivals in the world to be both neighbors and nuclear
READ MOREBangnladesh Mayoral Election: The alternative facts and life imitating art0
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- March 2, 2019
Ali Riaz March 2, 2019 Oscar Wilde wrote in his 1889 essay “The Decay of Lying” that, “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.” Little did he know that a century and a few decades later his words would be true in the most literal sense. The events around us often seem so
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‘Pulwama’, ‘Balakot’, Modi, Imran Khan, Wing Commander Avinandan, War Cry, Peace Appeal etc. etc: What do we make of all these?1
- Commentary, Featured
- March 2, 2019
2 March 2019 M. Adil Khan[1] Whole thing started with Pulwama in Kashmir in Indian Kashmir where a suicide bomber attacked an Indian army convoy and killed 40 soldiers. The incident has happened in the wake of upcoming general election in India which also coincides with Modi’s plummeting popularity that have made some people looking
READ MOREBangladesh: An Open Letter to Dr. Gowher Rizvi. Oxford Union debate telecast on Aljazeera3
- Commentary, Featured
- March 1, 2019
Taj Hashmi 1 March 2019 Dear Gowher: In hindsight, I think I should have written this letter ten years back, days after you became the International Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. I am sorry, I failed miserably to perform my duty as a friend towards a very good old friend on time.
READ MOREWho benefits from the Indo-Pak war?0
- Commentary
- March 1, 2019
Ali Riaz | Prothom Alo Mar 1, 2019 The perennial conflict between India and Pakistan has now taken on proportions of direct military conflict. There is no saying that this will not evolve into a full-fledged war. There is still time to bring things under control, but no room for complacence. Even a limited war
READ MORESaudi gas export plans shine new light on efforts to isolate Iran0
- Commentary
- February 28, 2019
By James M. Dorsey 28 February 2019 A podcast version of this story is available on Soundcloud, Itunes, Spotify, Stitcher, TuneIn and Tumblr Saudi plans to become a major gas exporter within a decade raise questions about what the real goal of the kingdom’s policy, and by extension that of the United States, is towards
READ MOREIndia’s Monkey Business: RAW Meddling In The Neighborhood0
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- February 28, 2019
February 27, 2019By Atta Rasool Malik India’s external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), has been long accused of meddling in its neighbours’ affairs. Founded in 1968, primarily to counter China’s influence, over time it has shifted its focus to its traditional rival, Pakistan and later to even smaller neighbourhood. Indian performance in
READ MOREIndia Pakistan Borders: Cartography without Geographical Frontiers0
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- February 28, 2019
The first comprehensive frontier concept was explicitly expressed by Lord Curzon in his Romanes lectures at Oxford in 1907. The deciding factor in carving geographical boundaries in Indian subcontinent was the outcome of rivalry between Great Britain and Russia, the boundaries of North Western frontiers in South Asia is British creation. The boundary line between
READ MOREDangerous Escalation Between Nuclear-Armed Rivals India And Pakistan0
- Commentary
- February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019 Nauman Sadiq In a pre-dawn airstrike at 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 12 Indian Mirage 2000 fighter jets intruded into Pakistan’s airspace and dropped their payload on the top of a mountain at a terrorist training camp, allegedly belonging to a jihadist group that had claimed responsibility for the Pulwama attack in the
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