South Asia

Geopolitical and geostrategic developments in the Asia Pacific

-SartaJ Aziz, Former Advisor to the Prime Minister, Government of Pakistan Geopolitical and geostrategic developments in the Asia Pacific have been moving rapidly in the recent past. The United States brought greater focus on the region by launching the ‘Asia Pivot’ in 2011. The Pivot, renamed as ‘rebalance’ strengthens alliances with Japan, South Korea, India, […]

Focus has shifted from Atlantic to Asia Pacific

–Senator Mushahid Hussain Sayed, Pakistan There was a shift in the balance of power from West to East and after 9/11 this shift became more apparent due to military failures in Iraq and Afghanistan and also failures of regime change that shattered the status quo in most of the Muslim world. We have been facing […]

Dr. Farooq Abdullah’s Kashmir resonates in UNGA and United Kingdom….

N. P. Upadhyaya “Today Kashmiris do not feel Indian and do not want to be Indian … They are slaves … They would rather have the Chinese rule them … every Kashmiri believes the new domicile laws are intended to create a Hindu majority … the gap between Kashmiris and the rest of the country […]

Imran Khan appeals Intl. Community to help Afghan new set up

N. P. UpadhyayaKathmandu: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is on record to have said, September 26, 2020, in an article published by the Washington Post that “all those who have invested in the Afghan peace process should resist the temptation for setting unrealistic timelines. A hasty international withdrawal from Afghanistan would be unwise. We should […]

Nepal envoy Adhikari meets Pakistan PM Khan; SAARC FM’s meet in New York cancelled

Reporting by N. P. UpadhyayaKathmandu/Islamabad: Nepal’s Ambassador to the Pakistani court, His Excellency Tapas Adhikari has made a courtesy call on the Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Ambassador Adhikari met PM Khan on September 21, 2021, say Nepal embassy sources in Islamabad. During the meet with the Pakistan Prime Minister, the Nepali envoy Mr. Adhikari […]