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A region of hope and despair: India needs to lead South Asian integration
A region of hope and despair: India needs to lead South Asian integration

Needless to say, one of the most overstated pessimistic phrases about South Asia is that it is one of the least integrated regions of the world. Formally the process of South Asian integration was started in 1985 with the establishment of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). Such regional initiatives in other parts of the...

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Loosing Nepal
Loosing Nepal

The Nepali leadership had discriminated against the Madhesi people of the Terai while framing the new Constitution. The Constitution adopted by that country has provided 100 seats for the hill people constituting less than fifty percent of the population; and only 65 seats for more than fifty percent people of the Terai region dominated by the...

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What has become of Taliban in Afghanistan?
Chayanika Saxena | 30 Dec , 2015 0 comments
What has become of Taliban in Afghanistan?

Taliban has all along been considered a formidable, resilient unified front with an effective chain of command. But, like every other entity that is prone to change, or in this case, decline, the fissures within Taliban and the extraneous challenges that are being mounted against it, have certainly left a deleterious impact on this movement....

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War crimes trial in Bangladesh: Pakistan stands exposed
Anand Kumar | 28 Dec , 2015 0 comments
War crimes trial in Bangladesh: Pakistan stands exposed

The war crime trials in Bangladesh are the unfinished agenda of the Liberation War of the Bangladeshi people who had won their liberation from Pakistan on 16 December 1971. These war criminals had sided with the raiding Pakistani forces in 1971 and committed extreme atrocities on Bengali people. The country is now trying to complete this by...

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Canada welcomes Syrian refugees: Welcome departure from North American security obsession
Reeta Tremblay | 27 Dec , 2015 0 comments
Canada welcomes Syrian refugees: Welcome departure from North American security obsession

On December 20th, Canada’s Minister of Immigration and Citizenship, John McCallum   announced Canada’s revised plans to resettle 50,000 Syrians by the end of 2016.  This is an extension of the new Liberal government’s pledge to resettle 25,000 government and privately-sponsored Syrian refugees – 10,000 by the end of December and 15,000 by...

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