While the aloofness from the public behind dark glasses – the signature of King Mahendra – has long been abandoned by his son King Birendra, his advisers over at the Narayanhiti Royal
Developing country policy-makers should take close note of a not-so-subtle shift in US policy regarding climate change, understand its dire implications, and prepare to respond.
Last month, US President Bill
By mid-December 1997, Pakistani investigators must prove that the money in four Swiss bank accounts frozen in September by the Swiss government, was misappropriated by Benazir Bhutto from the government
The general elections held last year merely changed the seats of the belligerent parties and not the state of political war within Bangladesh. For the moment, the political tension in
Erstwhile Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, and Hindu scholar, finds that India has some problems, but will prosper.
If one date marks the ending of the age of colonialism that
The multilaterals have begun dealing directly with the state capitals and New Delhi does not seem to mind.
A new trend is afoot as the World Bank and the Asian
Canada Chalo
"Go West, young man!" advised someone once. It wasn't meant for them, but Pakistanis, young and old alike, seem to have taken this counsel
There are some refugee issue that have more or less solved themselves through sheer passage of time. indu, Muslim and Sikh refugees created by Partition have had to come to
The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced on 26 July that it was changing its name to Mutahida Qaumi Mahaz (United National Movement). The proposal is not new. It was first
A strange element in Sri Lanka´s long-drawn civil war, now in its fourteenth year, is that despite the blood that has been shed and the limbs that have been
Now that the breathless television extravaganza of the 50th anniversary of Independence of India and Pakistan is over, we can perhaps take a more sober look at the past half-century.
