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Afghan refugee children wave at the camera from the back of a truck leaving from Pakistan to Afghanistan in April 2025.
With a narrow focus on security and a desire to perpetuate Afghanistan’s dependence on Pakistan, Islamabad has failed to recognise the Taliban’s new regional ambitions and geopolitical strategy
Himal interviews: Media-fuelled Islamophobia in India
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Journalist Seema Chishti speaks to Harsh Mander about events from the Babri Masjid demolition to phenomena like the love jihad fallacy
Illustrated portrait of Dalpat Chauhan with glasses and a moustache, shown in three-quarter profile against a blue background with a bright white circular halo-like sun behind his head.
An unsung giant of Gujarati literature, Dalpat Chauhan has fought to reclaim a Dalit history, identity and idiom that resist Gujarat’s exclusivist politics and pride
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India denies bail to student activists held under anti-terror laws, Bangladesh suspends visa services in India, Southasia Weekly's 100th issue and more
Composite image of Myanmar military junta looming over an electronic voting machine with election posters on the top right, and a stained glass pattern in the background.
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Ben Dunant
Ground reporting of the 2025-26 election reveals that voters only hope for a slight lifting of the military’s boot in a race with virtually no political opposition
Himal Interviews: How Pakistan’s partisan politics empowers its military
Ayesha Jalal on Pakistan’s 27th constitutional amendment and how former prime minister Imran Khan was used by the military to undermine democratic momentum
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