SAFTA
Not-so-free trade
SAARC leaders emphasise regional free trade and investment while overlooking the need to address labour conditions.
Puja Sen and Shubhanga Pandey | Nov 26, 2014
Caged Regionalism – The disappointment of SAFTA and BIMSTEC
In order to take advantage of the global trade regime, countries of Southasia must first develop trade between each other.
Posh Raj Pandey | Jul 17, 2005
A Subcontinental free trade utopia
SAFTA has been hyped following the SAARC summit, but will it only help the trader and not the people? And what of services?
Joe Thomas K | Jan 01, 2004
Is the largest market in the making?
The prospect of free trade in the subcontinent is expected to stamp-out illegal trade and the routing of goods through third countries leading in the long-term to benefits for all in the region.
Farhan Reza | Jan 01, 2004
Latest Articles
A disappeared Maldivian journalist’s family still waits for closure
Eight years after he vanished, and despite an official report pointing to his abduction and murder, Ahmed Rilwan is yet to be declared dead, and powerful officials allegedly linked to the killers evade justice
Punjab’s battles over Bhagat Singh
Controversies over the anti-colonial revolutionary expose Punjab’s political fissures, with the farmers’ protest movement, Communists, Khalistanis, the AAP and other parties all having staked their own claims
Tehreek-i-Taliban is making its way back in Pakistan
Tehreek-i-Taliban’s resurgence reveals the failure of the Pakistan government’s anti-terror policy and its ambivalent, contradictory relationship with Islamist militant groups
The secrets of ‘All That Breathes’
Shaunak Sen’s Oscar-nominated documentary looks at Muslim brothers caring for kites in Delhi, but also carries a veiled message on religious hatred in Modi’s India
