Category: So Asia
Pakistan’s Historic Court Ruling: ‘Rome Has Spoken, the Case Is Finished!’
By Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury in Dhaka Courier: Pakistan’s impossibly debonair and incredibly urbane cricketing star…
Ethno-Populist Policies and Sri Lanka’s Economic Meltdown
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram: Once deemed a basic human needs success story,…
Why India Did Not Go to War With China
IRSHAD SALIM – “Because they could not,” a Pakistani defense expert says. “Militarily, China has…
Hepatitis B and the Liver Cancer Endgame
Kristina Campbell in Nature: Liver cancer is the third leading cause of cancer deaths globally —…
Transgenders Julie, Mannat and Sapna (Video)
IRSHAD SALIM — A few transgenders I had met at a markaz (marketplace) in Islamabad…
Pakistan’s Godfathers
TARIQ ALI: Over the Pakistani airwaves, sports commentators frequently groan that the national cricket team…
Pakistan Victim of U.S. Meddling to Contain China’s Rise
“Yes, I feel the change has been abetted by USA, but even they must be…
Amartya Sen on Identity, Decolonization and How to Change the World
Amartya Sen recently spoke from his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the New Statesman’s ideas editor, Gavin…
Bangladesh Has Become a Test Case for Women’s Empowerment
By Claudia Sadoff in IPS: A decade ago, not even one in four rural women…
China’s Entry Into The Muslim World
By Mushahid Hussain: The retrenchment of American power in the Middle East and the larger…
Khan’s Moscow visit was ‘very successful’
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to Moscow was ‘very successful’; is ‘of historical significance, and…