President General Pervez Musharraf's military-led regime had to go to extraordinary lengths before and after the 10 October 2002 elections to place Sindh under its control. With the
South Asia is a basket with a regionful of problems, or a region with a basketful of problems, whatever. But the triumph of and challenge for our land is in
Uttar Pradesh, the state of polio
The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) accounts for 68 percent of polio cases reported worldwide. According to data from the National Polio Surveillance
The Origins and Development of the Tablighi-Jama'at (1920-2000): A cross-country comparative study
By Yoginder Sikand
Orient Longman, Hyderabad, 2002
pp xii+310, INR 595
ISBN 81 250 2298
SAARC interrupted
The Ministry of External Affairs in South Block might get a sense of how the rest of South Asia looks at its reluctance to go to the Islamabad
Nobodies to Somebodies: The Rise of the Colonial Bourgeoisie in Sri Lanka
By Kumari Jayawardena
Zed Books, London and New Delhi, 2002
pp xxx+412, INR 650
ISBN 1 84277
The road leading north from the town of Damak to the three clustered Beldangi refugee camps in southeast Nepal is paved until it reaches the police post marking the camps&
Since we Subcontinentals hate each other everywhere all the time, there is nothing new to report there. But it may be useful to try and do a survey of the
Withdrawal of army troops has begun in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. The hill people are also demanding that the Bengalis be removed from the region. Foreign quarters join in
Social Science Baha announces:
The Mahesh Chandra Regmi Lecture 2009 to be delivered by Romila Thapar
3 pm · 14 October, 2009 (Wednesday) · Russian Cultural Centre, Kamalpokhari
The Vamshavali from Chamba:
Date: 5 – 7 October 2009
Location: Kabul, Afghanistan
CBR Network ( South Asia ) is an international NGO working towards networking of all NGOs active in the field of Community Based Rehabilitation