There are some refugee issue that have more or less solved themselves through sheer passage of time. indu, Muslim and Sikh refugees created by Partition have had to come to
The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced on 26 July that it was changing its name to Mutahida Qaumi Mahaz (United National Movement). The proposal is not new. It was first
A strange element in Sri Lanka´s long-drawn civil war, now in its fourteenth year, is that despite the blood that has been shed and the limbs that have
Now that the breathless television extravaganza of the 50th anniversary of Independence of India and Pakistan is over, we can perhaps take a more sober look at the past half-
Producing Women
After three decades of television in India, women have finally begun to enter the production arena in a big way. They are no longer just pretty faces on
The Taliban are attempting to impose a new moral order in Afghanistan and they are doing it at gunpoint. The Afghan experience has lessons for the rest of South Asia,
Buddha Brouhaha
It was a classic case of much ado about nothing.
An exhibition of Buddha´s relics preserved in India was jointly organised by New Delhi´s National Museum
Talks between India and Pakistan are periodically resumed and abandoned, with both sides fixated in their positions and little hope for reconciliation. Rather than throw one´s hands up in
Anniversaries are useful occasions as a way to remind us of the values that are enshrined in our history. The golden jubilee year of Indian and Pakistani independence, 1997, is
With the passing away on 15 March of former Supreme Court judge Dorab Patel, Pakistan lost one of its most prominent and dedicated human rights activists. A slightly built figure,
The Sixth BCSPIN Summer School on "Current Trends in High Energy Physics and Cosmology" held in Kathmandu in early June owes its origins to the inspiration of the
