Analysis

Is Nepal Small?

Professor Anand Aditya, Nepal The absence of a comprehensive survey on self-perception does not allow generalization here at the theoretical level, hut a casual scan of the existing literature of Nepali people’s self-image suggests that they feel small, squeezed in between the elephantine weights of two giants whose geographical mass, economic productivity, military power, and […]

Quad: Will Russia and China back Pakistan to match India?

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: It would be wise to put some facts straight. South Asian nation Bangladesh neither has been so far invited nor intends to join the Security Dialogue of the Quad comprising Australia, Japan, India and the United States of America, say regional media sources. Yet some high placed political authorities in Dhaka hint […]

US Afghanistan Pullout: Impact on Middle East Security!

N . P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Pakistan’s top diplomat Foreign Minister S. M. Qureshi brought inadvertently the traditional brotherly Pakistan-Saudi Arabian relations to a nadir when he in the first week of August 2020 made uncommon comments against the Saudi Kingdom which had been exhibiting its continued reluctance in denouncing the Indian regime for the annexation of […]

US and China’s confrontation threatens global peace!

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: On July 27, 2020, last year China had organized a webinar of some South Asian countries that included Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nepal-the core friends of China presumably which was chaired by Wang Yi-the Chinese foreign minister. Notably, China has the Observer status in the PM Modi killed SAARC regional body. The July […]

US Exit: How will Afghanistan-Pakistan security change?

N. P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: Far flung Turkey too is greatly concerned with the continued political fluidity and instability that has become the hall mark of Afghanistan since decades and decades got affirmed when this country had sponsored a trilateral meet of Turkey-Afghanistan and Pakistan as back as in the year 2014. The difference is that the […]