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“Before, there was too little work. Now there is too much.”

SAARC Secretary General Naeem U Hasan assumed office on I January 1996, and has presided over a period when the organisation seems to have, at long last, picked up some

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1997

Monitoring the Monitors

For the last few years, every general election in a South Asian country has seen a group of individuals from the region fly off to monitor the polls. The South

By Sasanka Perera

/ 1 Mar 1997

“Ours is certainly a democratic system…”

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom rules his atoll nation with a firm hand, but has been credited with bringing unprecedented prosperity to his 250,000 subjects. Today, the Maldives has the best

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

Maldives, Sri Lanka and the “India Factor”

Colombo has been a traditional friend and New Delhi a friend in need of this strategic yet vulnerable republic, the smallest member of SAARC. There is no record of when

By Ravinatha Aryasinha

/ 1 Mar 1997

South South Asia

Forty-five minutes on a flight out of Madras, the southern tip of India comes into view below the right wing. On the other side, a yellow sliver of land snakes

By The Editors

/ 1 Mar 1997

Round-up of regional news

16,000 and Counting… A fact sheet on the status of victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster of December 1996 reminds one of the continuing horror of that singular event.

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

Regionalism Washed Away

An important element which was included in the 1977 agreement, and a point that has come up again and again in the Indo-Bangla water talks, was the need for "

By Ajaya Dixit

/ 1 Jan 1997

A South Asian Labour Rights Charter Why Not?

All the major trade unions, federations, labour support organisations from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal who gathered for´ the first time in Kathmandu in end-May agreed on one

By Mukul

/ 1 Jul 1996

In Pakistan, the Social Clause is Finally an Issue

Whenever Pakistani NGO people have a chance to mingle with fellow Subcontinental, one question always comes up. Why are Pakistani NGOs so passive and mute about the effects of International

By Farjad Nabi

/ 1 Jun 1996

Burma, ASEAN and SAARC

Even though, culturally, Burma has more in common with the countries of Southeast Asia, it does not make sense for Rangoon to turn its back on South Asia. Despite global

By Soe Myint

/ 1 Jun 1996

HATE THY NEIGHBOUR

Some of the more promising election-time pitches in the SAARC countries are linked to the matter of 'bad neighbour' rather than domestic issues. In India, the Bharatiya Janata

By The Editors

/ 1 Jun 1996

ESCAP on SAARC: Scorecard on Fiscal Reforms and Investment Regimes

The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific (1996) was released in mid-April by the regional UN organisation the Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific

By The Editors

/ 1 May 1996