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This is part of the first season of Partitions of the Heart: Conversations with Harsh Mander, a Himal Southasian podcast series produced in association with Karwan-e-Mohabbat.
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Black and white photo of Taraki Sivaram. Dharmaretnam Sivaram was known for his column on politics in northern Sri Lanka. He was abducted and killed in 2005.
Sri Lankan journalists are calling on the government to expedite stalled investigations into the unsolved abduction and murder of Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam “Taraki” Sivaram
Pakistan’s army chief, Asim Munir, dressed in military uniform (left) meeting Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi dressed in a white shirt and black suit (right). Both are seated on either side of a table with a photo of Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah and a flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In the background are large flags of Pakistan and the Pakistan Armed Forces.
The United States and Donald Trump are courting the Pakistan military as an ally in a war against Iran, but Pakistan’s present problems and hard lessons from the US-led invasion of Afghanistan should ...
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