The strengthening of India-US ties has not only been a significant concern to Pakistan but has also garnered global attention. India’s strategic alliance with the USA is shifting security dynamics…
South Asia
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Squeezed between giant arch-rivals India and China, the landlocked mountain kingdom of Bhutan was long isolated by icy Himalayan peaks. But as Bhutan readies to elect a new parliament in…
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India and Bhutan are neighbouring countries in South Asia and have been traditional friends for a long time. The relationship is marked by the utmost trust, goodwill, mutual understanding, and…
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Chinese scholar says Modi’s suppression against minorities expands from India to abroad
by Abbas AdilProminent Chinese scholar, Prof Cheng Xizhong, has said that the serious diplomatic incident between India and Canada that has occurred in recent days indicates that the grave consequences of the…
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THERE’S no gainsaying that vested interests within and without do not want India and Pakistan to have friendly relations. In the early days, conjured falsehoods placated a vile nationalist streak…
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There was a time when Pakistan’s per capita income was better than in regional countries, including India. It had more clout in major international forums. The Organization of Islamic Countries,…
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South Asia has the highest percentage of children exposed to extreme high temperatures, compared to all other regions, according to a Unicef analysis released on Monday. Unicef estimates that 76…
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Aakar Patel, Chair of the Board of Amnesty International in India, said the country has developed a nationalism that is fierce, but essentially inward-focused, and of late there is discrimination…
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JUNE 25 marked the 48th anniversary of the suspension of democracy by Indira Gandhi in India, for which she cited internal disturbances as the trigger. Comparisons are in order of…
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CLIMATE change is South Asia’s foremost development challenge — and a rapidly emerging non-traditional regional security threat. India’s 90-day notice to Pakistan to initiate renegotiation of the Indus Waters Treaty…
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During thetwenty-first century, South Asian countries have been facing and dealing with enormous problems. But the environmental crisis is one of the major and most emerging issues. South Asia is…
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South Asia has a very important part to play in the US strategic design for Asia. India and Pakistan, the two eternal belligerents, have always been a diplomatic nightmare to…
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BEING the successor state of British India, the Indian leadership assumed all the roles of its colonial masters right from its independence in 1947. This fact was later interpreted by…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, a catastrophic culmination of longstanding and escalating tensions between the two countries, has had consequences that have been far from binational. The conflict…
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SOUTH Asia is the world’s most volatile region, owing to the conflict of nuclear-armed states with disputed borders and global power rivalries. India is one of the few countries that…
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Kashmir is a dispute recognised by the UN. It holds infamy as the most dangerous place on the planet. The 76-year-old conflict in that disputed, divided, devastated, and illegally occupied…
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Leaving Russia’s current posturing aside, the nuclear standoff in South Asia has widely been considered the most dangerous flashpoint for the past two decades. The dynamics of the nuclear arms…
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The recent popular term, ‘South Asia’ in world politics, has traditionally been defined in several perspectives like geography, history, ethnicity, politics, culture and also known as the southern subregion of…
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Secular and liberal activists in Pakistan were always dejected by the jingoistic rhetoric of jihadist hawks at home. Now the outshining firework by the Indian brand has totally dampened their…
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Women are expected to handle the majority of home labour in a patriarchal society. Balancing paid employment with domestic duties is a demanding endeavour that affects women psychologically, emotionally, and…
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Ukrainian forces achieved their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began, bursting through the front and advancing rapidly along the Dnipro River on Monday, threatening…
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Following its declaration in December 1971, Bangladesh’s independence was first acknowledged by India. In South Asia, these two nations have historically had a shared border. Although there have been a…
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There are a host of news portals across South Asia, and newspapers too, that crave the reader’s financial support in these dire days as a way to stay clear of…
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How the USA’s Bid to Pitch India as a counterweight to China is destabilizing South Asia?
by Abbas AdilSouth Asia indubitably presents the most precarious case for strategic stability. Two contiguous and bitterly hostile nuclear-weapon states; a festering conflict in Kashmir acting as a permanent source of tensions;…
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Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5 million people stranded with little food and drinking water after…
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Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across South Asia on Friday to condemn the derogatory remarks made by the two members of India’s ruling BJP against Prophet…
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Indian police shoot dead two protesters in Ranchi during demonstrations over remarks against Holy Prophet
by Abbas AdilIndian police shot dead two protesters and arrested more than 130 others during street rallies sparked by a ruling party official’s remarks about Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), authorities…
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In March 2022, reported record temperatures in India made this the hottest year in the 122 years since records began. The world has seen heatwaves in the past, but human-made…
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As he builds a theoretical explanation of Pakistan’s pursuance and acquisition of Nuclear Weapons, Feroz Hassan Khan in his seminal work on Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program, among others, refers to…
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India is facing its worst power crisis in over six years as a heatwave bakes vast swathes of South Asia, causing widespread power outages. Here is a summary of the…