South Asia

Olympic Diplomacy & Ukraine Crisis: The US Cornered?

N. P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: It would be appropriate and timely to begin this article from what the Statesman of international repute and the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill had once talked of Russia. He had said, “Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside and enigma”. The use of the word […]

Revisiting King Mahendra’s role in nation building!

N. P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: It has rightly been said by men of letters that “one idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots and ten thousand idiots are a political party”. We don’t know much of the “idiocy” other countries, however, in Nepal this “words of wisdom” fits into exactly giving one the impression […]

Protocol Issues, Presentation of Credentials and Vienna Conventions

Mohan Krishna Shrestha Ambassador of Nepal to France (2010-2014) & Former Chief of Protocol, MOFA, Nepal States, with well-defined boundaries, were born only after the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648 A.D. Thereafter, states began exercises to exchange Ambassadors. Yet, rules for protocol could not take any shape for long. In the lack of protocol, previously […]

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal need China for their development 

-Pathik Hasan, Bangladesh It is true that South Asia needs China in its development process because ‘China’ is synonymous with the term “Development”. China’s ambitious project ‘Belt and Road Initiative” provides benefits for almost all South Asian Countries and currently Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan are benefitting from the project directly. On the other […]

Strategic partnership: Moscow, Beijing and Islamabad!

N. P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: A dossier released by the Kremlin, Russian Federation, dated January 17, 2022, reiterates that President of Russia Vladimir Putin and the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan have had a long telephone conversations and the two leaders talked on various contemporary international issues of mutual concerns. Needless to say, PM Khan and […]