Leaders of the institutions that guide global economic development have set 2015 as a target date for reducing by half the number of human beings who live in extreme poverty.
So far both peace and anti-peace activities outside the conflict areas of Sri Lanka's North and East have been small. A demonstration for peace in early March saw
There is more to General Musharraf's pro-West, anti-mullah stance than meets the eye. He seeks the overseas blessings to keep Pakistani democracy at bay.
Marking Pakistan's
As the recent round of elections to the legislative assemblies of four states in India reconfirm the decline of the dominant-party system, it is time to reflect on its implications
The ceasefire brokered by the Oslo diplomats is a practical document that seeks to learn from the specific Sri Lankan experience of the past, and it provides the best chance
The main feature in the Norwegian-drafted Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran in March is the indefinite ceasefire agreement. It calls
We hadn't seen the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Prabhakaran, since 1989 when we watched him at a Jaffna football field addressing a large crowd euphoric about impending
Every year, about this time, we need to remind the leaders of society, academia and SAARC, about the Indo-Gangetic fog. Himal raised the matter a year ago ("Huddled masses,
Just what is holding things up in the resumption of overflight rights for Indian and Pakistani airliners over each other's territories? We can see no conceivable reason for
