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How Pashtun Insurgency Being Portrayed As Terrorism In Pakistan0
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- March 13, 2017
How Pashtun Insurgency Being Portrayed As Terrorism In Pakistan By Nauman Sadiq March 13, 2017 In Pakistan, there are three distinct categories of militants: the Afghan-centric Pashtun militants; the Kashmir-centric Punjabi militants; and the transnational terrorists, like al-Qaeda. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is mainly comprised of Pashtun militants, carries out bombings against Pakistan’s state
WHY SAUDI ARABIA, CHINA AND ISLAMIC STATE ARE COURTING THE MALDIVES0
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- March 13, 2017
WHY SAUDI ARABIA, CHINA AND ISLAMIC STATE ARE COURTING THE MALDIVES As Riyadh and Beijing nurture grandiose plans for military bases, New Delhi fears the archipelago could become a breeding ground for the terrorist group BY JAMES M. DORSEY 12 MAR 2017 Saudi King Salman welcomes the Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom to Riyadh in
Talking Ethnic Reconciliation With Tongues Still Tied To The Past0
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- March 13, 2017
Talking Ethnic Reconciliation With Tongues Still Tied To The Past Sathiya Moorthy,The Sunday Leader, Colombo, 12 March 2017 The problem is that the West does not have the courage to accept that were wrong on and in Sri Lanka If anything, now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of Sri
UN Peacekeeping and Bangladesh0
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- March 10, 2017
UN Peacekeeping and Bangladesh Krishna Kumar Saha Abstract UN Peacekeeping has never been so diversified before as it is right now. The nature and context of Peacekeeping missions of UN have changed several times. Also, it is no more of light footprint and truce supervision as it was before. Now it has become increasingly complex,
India’s outlook on Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty0
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- March 10, 2017
India’s outlook on Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty A study on Parliamentary Debates Trombay – Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Photo source: Wikipedia Susangit Kujur On November 29, 2009, India became one of the recognized nuclear power, after it joined the NonProliferation Treaty India’s new stand to be a nuclear weapon state within the NPT, has triggered a
WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICTS AND CRISES0
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- March 10, 2017
WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS IN CONFLICTS AND CRISES By Adil Hamid lone LLM scholar at school of law Pondicherry University Sexual and gender-based violence in conflict and post-conflict settings INTRODUCTION In armed conflict or political strife, violence against women takes severe forms. During the past decade, much international attention has been paid to the link between
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Bangladesh; DEMOCRACY IN PERIL
by F R Chowdhury 20 March 2019 I was very upset with news from Bangladesh. For last few months we often come across news that someone somewhere in Bangladesh is arrested or jailed for passing unacceptable remark against the prime minister or for making any sort of cartoon of the prime minister. I am grateful
‘Pulwama’, ‘Balakot’, Modi, Imran Khan, Wing Commander Avinandan, War Cry, Peace Appeal etc. etc: What do we make of all these?
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