“Saudi Arabia seeks Pakistani weapons, soldiers in Yemen conflict”
06Saudi Arabia seeks Pakistani weapons, soldiers in Yemen conflict
Riyadh has asked Islamabad to contribute aircraft, warships and soldiers to its Yemen offensive. Meanwhile, Pakistani legislators have advised the government to remain non-partisan in the Middle Eastern conflict.
Defense Minister Khawaja Asif said Monday that Saudi Arabia had formally asked Pakistan...
A new storm brewing over the Maldives
Many Europeans flock to the beautiful Islands of the Maldives to spend their honeymoon, discover the amazing scuba diving possibilities, and walk in pure sandy beaches and to enjoy the warm hospitality of people of the island state. The Maldives is often referred to as Paradise on earth. Today,...
Assassination of the Free Mind blogger in Dhaka
Its Thursday the 26th, seven PM, I am in a hotel lobby, in the vicinity of the University of Dhaka. Plans are changed at the last minute and my visit to the Book Fair is postponed to the morning of the next day.
Avijit Roy – a Bangladeshi born US...
The politics around the crime of genocide
Bangladesh: Memory and justice revisited
Note to the 2015 edition
This is a revised version of a paper first presented in May 2013 in the South Asia Institute in Heidelberg University. Whereas the objective of the campaign against the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) did not change during these last two...
Afghanistan in India’s Regional Calculus and Pakistan’s Detrimental Impact
Pakistani-Indian relations in the past have hardly been amicable. However, the post 9/11 landscape offered both nations an opportunity to renew their political and diplomatic ties with more positive overtones. However, this did not occur.
In the Pakistani-Indian context, the tragedies of 9/11, the fluid nature in global politics and...
Pakistan trains Afghan soldiers: Enough to build trust?
Originally published on Deutsche Welle (http://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-trains-afghan-soldiers-enough-to-build-trust/a-18244749)
Pakistan trains Afghan soldiers: Enough to build trust?
Ties between Afghanistan and Pakistan are beginning to thaw as a group of Afghan cadets has arrived in Islamabad to receive military training. But Pakistan needs to do a lot more to win the Afghan trust, say experts.
For...
Sri Lanka ‘on right track’ to achieving sustainable democracy
After coming to power, Sri Lanka's President Sirisena took steps that observers believe are a major shift from the previous government's policies. But analyst Siegfried O. Wolf says Sirisena still has a lot more to do.
Sri Lanka's new leader Maithripala Sirisena, who defeated former president Mahinda Rajapksa in the...
Democracy and National Reconciliation in Sri Lanka: Towards a Peaceful Equation?
Sri Lanka not only symbolizes the oldest and longest democratic tradition among post-colonial societies but also an authoritarian shift and one of Asia’s most traumatic civil wars. The armed conflict between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), that mainly comprised of members of the Buddhist Sinhalese majority, and the...
Pakistan: Between Coup and Constitutional Engineering
Pakistan started the New Year 2015 with another unfortunate episode in its truncated political history.
One could once again hear the momentous military rhetoric of the “doctrine of necessity” in order to justify direct intervention into the country’s politics, to establish formal prerogatives and an institutionally ensured role for the...
What prompted Pakistan to ban the Haqqani network?
Pakistan has finally decided to outlaw the militant Haqqani network, which has been responsible for attacks on foreign forces in Afghanistan. Experts, however, say that Islamabad's move is unlikely to be implemented.
Pakistan no longer believed in separating the "good" and "bad" Taliban, a senior government official said on Friday,...