The residents of Balochistan are in trouble again, and one of the leaders of the Baloch resistance, Dr Allah Nazar, is currently a hunted man. While systemic oppression by paramilitary
Beijing is pouring money and labour into improving the highway linking the Chinese Xinjiang region to Pakistan's Northern Areas and to the sea – even as events in the
Terror in Punjab: Narratives, knowledge and truth
by Ram Narayan Kumar
Shipra, 2008
Himal Southasian mourns the death of friend and colleague Ram Narayan Kumar on Sunday, 28 June 2009.
On 15 June, General Moeen U Ahmed, the allegorical Man on Horseback of Bangladesh who was instrumental in installing a military-backed government through a coup in early 2007, rode off
A certain desperation for some signs of hope on Afghanistan has accorded a broad-based welcome to Barack Obama's new policy, which appears to contain the promise of wide-ranging
Britain's Gurkha War: The invasion of Nepal, 1814-16
by John Pemble
Frontline Books, 2008
Thucydides begins his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War by saying that whatever the
