Politics

A May 2008 protest against the abduction and assault of Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Charges are finally to be filed against military officers of the Tripoli platoon, implicated in the 2008 abduction and assault of Keith Noyahr as well as the killings and abductions of numerous other ...
Tshering Tobgay in traditional Bhutanese attire, wearing glasses and a red patterned gho, stands at a podium delivering a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2024. The background setting is an assembly hall, with the United Nations emblem visible on the front of the podium. Multiple microphones and papers are in front of him. Blurred attendees and tiered seating are also visible in the background.
Tshering Tobgay’s memoir is all praise for Bhutan’s monarchy and fledgling democracy, but it misrepresents the Lhotshampa expulsion and the fraught political history of the “Kingdom of Happiness”
More Muslims live in India than in any other country in the world barring Indonesia and Pakistan. Yet, for the first time since India’s independence, its Muslims have been rendered electorally dispensable and therefore politically irrelevant.
By
Harsh Mander
The Hindu Right has dispossessed India’s Muslims of meaningful political participation and fair representation while altering electoral politics to cast Muslims as a political liability
Mahrang Baloch (right) was detained by the Pakistan government after a non-violent protest in March and charged with terrorism, sedition and murder. Her arrest signals the Pakistan establishment’s readiness to reimpose its control over Balochistan by force.
By
Jamaima Afridi
Women are leading protests against disappearances and demanding equal participation in the Baloch struggle, but Mahrang Baloch and others face repression by the Pakistan government amid an intensified ...
A group of activists in Bangladesh participate in a protest holding photographs of missing persons. They are carrying signs with demands for justice and accountability, one of which reads in English, 'Where are they? Bring them back — alive or accountable! Maayer Daak.' Another sign in Bengali asks why the killers are still free. The protest appears to be organised by families of victims who have killed or disappeared, likely in cases of enforced disappearances.
By
Cyrus Naji
The Muhammad Yunus-led interim government, constrained by its own limitations and a volatile political climate, risks continuing the abuses of the Sheikh Hasina regime in its efforts at transitional j ...
Water flows through an Indian dam on the Jhelum in the wake of the Pahalgam attack. Geography has provided Pakistan with water security it has failed to recognise, instead indulging in paranoid fantasies of India cutting off its river waters.
Pakistan’s paranoia over India suspending the Indus Waters Treaty after the Pahalgam attacks is unfounded, lacking an understanding of geography, hydrology or its water security
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