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‘Rajapaksa Said Modi Insisted on Adani for Power Project’, Says Sri Lanka Electricity Chief0
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has denied authorising the award of the project “to any specific person or entity.” Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Gautam Adani, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Photos: PTI) The Wire Staff 12 June 2022 New Delhi: The head of Sri Lanka’s electricity authority has testified before a parliamentary panel that he
READ MOREBangladesh: US congress member calls for standing by the people of Bangladesh0
Human rights protection Diplomatic Correspondent Prothom Alo Dhaka 10 Jun 2022 Member of US house of representatives Jamie RaskinAFP Member of US house of representatives, Jamie Raskin, has urged his colleagues to join him in standing with the people of Bangladesh, especially those bravest and most vulnerable. He also urged the Bangladesh government to take
READ MOREJailed Kashmir rights activist Khurram Parvez in Time’s 100 list0
In its list of this year’s 100 most influential people, the US-based magazine calls Parvez a ‘modern-day David’ who ‘had to be silenced’. Khurram Parvez, left, speaks with human rights lawyer Parvez Imroz inside the office of the Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir [File: Dar Yasin/AP] Published On 24 May 202224
READ MOREPakistan: A hybrid coup0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 36 – Spring 2022
- April 17, 2022
Peshawar. PTI Media Cell 13 April 2022 by Brig Samson Simon Sharaf, (R) 17 April 2022 There is an irony. In our part of the world, in 711 AD, tears of a woman moved an army into Sindh. 13 centuries later, neutrality moved women to tears! With everything going hybrid in current times, it
READ MOREGen. Qamar Bajwa: In Duty to Country?0
- Commentary, Featured
- April 13, 2022
by Mian Hameed 14 April 2022 An outstanding maneuver by the Biden Administration. America celebrates their proud team, which master minded a regime change in Pakistan in as little as a month. Bajwa’s characterization in the White House, I do not think is that of the celebrated words, “But he
READ MORECooperating with autocrats: When is too much, too much?0
- Commentary, Featured
- April 6, 2022
by James M Dorsey 7 April 2022 Two recent publications have fuelled debate about democratic cooperation with autocratic governments in general, and Saudi Arabia in particular, in the wake of the Ukraine war. It is a debate that challenges US President Joe Biden’s framing of the conflict as a struggle between
READ MOREUS genocide declaration seen as a ‘way forward’ to justice for Rohingya0
A(nother) scar on Myanmar By Anonymous on Mar 22, 2022 12:19 pm Five years after Myanmar’s military killed thousands of Rohingya and expelled 740,000 of the Muslim minority to neighboring Bangladesh, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared that the 2016-17 ethnic-cleansing campaign met the definition of genocide. The top American diplomat cited a U.N.
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INDIA NEEDS A “RESET” ON ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH NEIGHBORS0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 36 – Spring 2022
- February 17, 2022
By Dr. Faisal M. Rahman 17 February 2022 India enjoys a much better image among countries that are not its immediate neighbors. This is indeed sad because it could offer much in terms of mutual economic benefit to all the countries which border this vast and populous country. India’s neighbors include China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri
READ MOREWhereabouts unknown: Bangladesh’s 86 disappeared men0
Netra News Half of disappearances involve opposition-linked men, with sanctioned Rapid Action Battalion identified as responsible for over third of pick-ups. Whereabouts unknown: Bangladesh’s 86 disappeared men Netra News February 3, 2022 Half of the 86 disappeared men, originally picked up over the last 12 years by Bangladeshi law enforcement authorities, whose cases have now
READ MOREThe Rising Spectre of Muslim Genocide in Modi’s India How serious is it?0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 36 – Spring 2022
- January 30, 2022
Indian Prime Minister, Norendra Modi Image source: Courtesy-the author by Muhammad Mahmood 30 January 2022 Gregory Stanton. the founding President of Genocide Watch who predicted the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda years before it took place in 1994, has in recent times, raised an alarm that a genocide of 200 million Muslims in
READ MORETransparency International: Corruption Has Deepened in Most of Asia0
By BenarNews staff on Jan 25, 2022 12:10 am Corruption worsened in most Asia-Pacific countries last year, with Malaysia and Thailand both falling at least five spots on Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index, the Berlin-based watchdog group said in a report issued Tuesday. Malaysia dropped from 57 to 62 in the corruption rankings of
READ MOREReminiscing Moulana Bhashani, his Political Legacies and Missed Opportunities in Pakistan0
- Commentary, Featured
- January 24, 2022
Moulana Bhashani with Mr. Syed Muhammad Kaswar Gardezi, author’s father and General Secretary of the (erstwhile) West Pakistan branch of Moulana’s National Awami Party (NAP) by Zahid Hussain Gardezi 24 January 2022 Moulana Bhashani, a progressive political leader of the Pre-partition India who hailed from former East Pakistan and
READ MOREThe Role of China for the Socio-economic Progress in South Asia0
- Commentary, Featured
- January 16, 2022
by Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed 16 January 2022 China is a growing influence on other developing economies through trade, investment, and ideas. Since opening up to foreign trade and investment and implementing wide-ranging reforms in 1979, China has been among the world’s fastest-growing economies, with real annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth averaging
READ MOREBangladesh-China relations: Advancing on firm footings0
- Commentary, Featured
- January 9, 2022
by Serajul Islam 9 January 2022 Bangladesh-China relations are excellent at present. Better still, they are on an ascending trajectory. In a country where all relations in the public domain are reflected and judged in the context of the country’s glorious War of Liberation of 1971, Bangladesh-China relations are an exception. China had
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