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This week, Salman Rafi Sheikh writes about the warm reception Pakistan’s army chief received in Washington DC, as the US courts Pakistan as a potential
Sri Lankan journalists are calling on the government to expedite stalled investigations into the unsolved abduction and murder of Tamil journalist Dharmeratnam “Taraki” Sivaram
The United States and Donald Trump are courting the Pakistan military as an ally in a war against Iran, but Pakistan’s present problems and hard lessons from the US-led invasion of Afghanistan should offer grave warnings
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This week, Burhan Majid writes about how India’s BJP government has weaponised reservations to disempower residents of Kashmir, leaving the union territory’s elected administration
A revised reservation policy brought in by India’s BJP-led central government attempts to shift Jammu and Kashmir’s politics to the ruling party’s benefit, and has left the union territory’s newly elected administration in a tricky spot
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This week, Shivanthi Fernando writes about recent developments into the case of Sri Lankan journalist Keith Noyahr, who was abducted and tortured, as the Attorney General’
Charges are finally to be filed against military officers of the Tripoli platoon, implicated in the 2008 abduction and assault of Keith Noyahr as well as the killings and abductions of numerous other Sri Lankan journalists
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This week, Maximillian Morch writes about Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay’s political memoir, which promises insight into Bhutan’s democratic evolution but falls short in
The journalist says that, despite some development, the Maldives’ political culture under Muizzu is one of corporatised corruption, political intimidation and control through gangs.
Tshering Tobgay’s memoir is all praise for Bhutan’s monarchy and fledgling democracy, but it misrepresents the Lhotshampa expulsion and the fraught political history of the “Kingdom of Happiness”
