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In India, the State Challenges Independent Media
India’s media crackdown goes far beyond the BBC – and it is the country’s independent journalists and news houses that are most vulnerable to attack. Ajay…
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Tehreek-i-Taliban is Making Its Way Back in Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Taliban’s resurgence reveals the failure of the Pakistan government’s anti-terror policy and its ambivalent, contradictory relationship with Islamist militant groups According to the January 2023 report…
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Sri Lanka’s Great IMF Lie
Decades of looking to the IMF for salvation has yielded only crises. Sri Lanka’s economic crisis demands urgent relief measures for a desperate citizenry and a…
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South Asia’s Looming Water War
More than six decades ago, the world’s most generous water-sharing pact was concluded. Under the Indus Waters Treaty, upstream India left the lion’s share of the…
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BBC, Nationalism and a Nation in Denial
The propaganda and whataboutery being used to try and discredit the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi rest on shaky ground. “It is this sanctimonious inability to…
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What Does a New IMF Loan Mean for Bangladesh?
The loan was largely a precautionary measure, but Bangladesh must ensure the additional funds truly benefit the economy over the long term. The International Monetary Fund…
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Taliban ‘Men-Only’ Aid Edict Divides Charity Community
The World Food Program seems poised to carry on, driving NGOs to call it quits on aid. International charities are preparing to suspend operations in Afghanistan,…
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Elections, Inevitable?
What next, is the question on everyone’s minds now that Imran Khan has crossed the Rubicon. Despite the reservations of those around him, as well as…
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India’s Bollywood Turns to Hindu Nationalism
Concerns grow that the film industry is in the grip of the far right India’s famed Bollywood film industry is freezing out Muslim actors and turning…
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A New Afghan Policy
WITH the Taliban having banned their education, Pakistan can allow Afghan female students to complete their degrees in Pakistan. This would allow the country to embark…
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A Plot Twist Makes Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prime Minister of Nepal
Dahal, aka ‘Prachanda’, turned his back on an earlier alliance with the Nepali Congress to side with the CPN-UML. Now he must lead a coalition government…
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Pakistan’s Latest Change of Command – What to Expect?
Since the end of November 2022, Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir has taken over as Pakistan’s new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) from General Qamar Javed…