Pervez Musharraf these days must be fantasising about going back to a world without the Internet. Banning newspapers and television certainly ain't what it used to be. Barely
The long shadow
Afghanistan's umbilical cord with its southern neighbour ensures that every political and economic shift in Pakistan is quickly reflected across the border. As such, as
General Pervez Musharraf is becoming quite the embarrassment for Southasia, as an autocrat who thinks he can get away with hurling untenable accusations against the high judiciary, and making bald
22 November, a Thursday, was to have been the date of deliverance for the people of Nepal. That was when the country would have gone in for the Constituent Assembly
The proceedings at the recent 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China suggest that more reform is indeed on the way in the Middle Kingdom, though only within the rigid confines set forth by the party’s top leadership.
Gen Musharraf appears to have won this round, but the people of Pakistan are sure to win the next. What has changed is that the judges are on the side of the people.
TIBET
Into the shanties
Chinese authorities have reportedly been stepping up a process of forcing at least 100,000 Tibetan nomads to give up their traditional lifestyles and settle down
On 6 September, Chrono Satellite Broadcast (CSB), Bangladesh's only private 24-hour news channel (which launched just this past March) was suddenly forced to shut down by the
The answer to conflict resolution does not require theories imported from outside Southasia, merely an acceptance of our archaeologically proven multi-cultural textured past. At the same time, our archaeological understanding must be refined, so that a new way of looking at the past offers a way tow
India/Burma
What copters?
Following increasingly strident attacks by human-rights activists over the past couple of months, the New Delhi government recently denied – as "completely baseless" – reports
In the early days of the Russian Revolution, starry-eyed Western sympathisers made a beeline for Moscow to report on the glories of the 'Soviet paradise'. Lenin memorably
Kabul and Islamabad have taken an important step back from guiding the attempt at détente. Now it's up to the myriad others to take the nascent peace process forward.
