South Asia

Pondering over Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s historic speech made, 31 March

-Dr. Rizwan Naseer Strategic Security Analyst, Pakistan Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed the nation before the vote of no-confidence which is likely on Sunday (April 3, 2022). He exposed an organized international effort to remove him from the office. PM Khan tried to incite the sentiments of the public by mentioning that slavery cannot […]

Will China’s duty-free access offer to the products’ benefit Bangladesh?

Ms. Mehjabin Bhanu Masters in Political Science, Bangladesh China-Asia’s largest economy, has decided to give duty-free export to 98 percent of Bangladesh’s products, including leather and leather goods. 383 new items were added to the list. From now on, a duty-free facility will be available for the export of 8,930 Bangladeshi products in the Chinese […]

Seventh Annual Nepal-Pakistan T-20 Cricket Tournament ends

Kathmandu, March 10: The Embassy of Pakistan organized the closing/prize distribution ceremony of the 7th Annual Nepal-Pakistan T-20 Cricket Tournament. A total of 12 teams including different Nepali Cricket Clubs participated in the 9-day cricket tournament. R S Widyaith Cricket Club won the tournament while Nexus Cricket Club was the runner-up. Mr. Ram Prasad Thapaliya, […]

Nepal: Foreign Policy Formulation and Execution

– Gopal Thapa Former Chief of Protocol Foreign Ministry, Nepal Formulation of foreign policy takes into consideration factors, among others, a country’s geography, strategic location, economic development status and level of socio-cultural consciousness among people in the country. These elements together constitute what in fact are called the “vital national interests”. The “Yam theory” propounded […]

Nepal-India relations: the midget, mammoth and the missing link in the Himalayas

From the archive Prof. Gopal Pokharel, Maitidevi, Kathmandu The background: Historically, culturally and strategically Nepal-India relation is traced back to antiquity that dates back at least to the time of ‘Ramayana’ in the ‘TretaYug’. The relations between the two needs no further explanation and is characterized as having its origin to people to people level […]