South Asia

NEPAL: A VICTIM OF INDIA’S PERSISTENT INTERVENTIONS – Part 3

Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Naazer, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan Post Doc Research Fellow, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. 3.6 India’s Role in Bringing down the Monarchy: India changed its policy towards Nepal whenever its interests or the situation suited so. Its policy towards […]

Nepal and Bangladesh Could Benefit from Growing Trade Ties

-Pathik Hasan, Bangladesh Nepal and Bangladesh are two of South Asia’s closest friends and peace-loving neighbors, their ties made closer by recent high-level state visits. President of Bangladesh Abdul Hamid visited Nepal in 2019. Nepal’s President Bidya Devi Bhandari likewise visited Bangladesh in 2021 as a guest on the birth centenary of Father of the […]

Tolerance level in Pakistan touches a new low?

N. P. Upadhyaya Kathmandu: Unbelievable but yet true. A heartless incident has taken place in Pakistan, Friday December 3, 2021 to the utter dismay of the entire world population. Friendly country Pakistan too has presumably “graduated” itself from a peace loving country to a nation that believes now in lynching and that too on religious […]

NEPAL: A VICTIM OF INDIA’S PERSISTENT INTERVENTIONS – Part 2

Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Naazer, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics & International Relations, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan Post Doc Research Fellow, Department of Global Studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington. 3.2 India’s Support to Armed Rebels against Panchayat System in 1960s: The democratic experiment caused political instability and thus was short lived. It also provided […]

Nepal: Question of political will and challenge of SA regional cooperation

(From the archives) Prof Sridhar Khatri, Ambassador designate USA  History was made a decade and half ago when the South Asian countries committed themselves to the concept of regional cooperation. Although skeptics have consistently questioned its efficacy in what is generally considered to be a conflict prone region, others have generally remained enthusiastic, eagerly awaiting […]