Oh c’mon now. Seriously: Pakistan? Pakistan’s already lost face to the world on politics, economics, development, education, human rights, and now…cricket? Pakistanis seem to have been taken down on the grounds of one of their most important cultural exports. Four players of the Pakistan team have been alleged to have accepted bribes to fix matches. […]
The closer cooperation between Bangladesh and India, signaled as a rush of agreements between public agencies in the two countries, seems to be taking a turn toward more solid ground. Bureaucrats within the two main public utilities have signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a new coal fired power plant in Khulna. Designed […]
Almost every news outlet is engaged with Pakistan’s flood and the dire needs of her people. The different ways in which terrible fortunes await those who have just narrowly missed losing their lives is mind-boggling. Disease is germinating in viral dark, wet corners. Given this attention, it is heart-breaking that the private and public donations […]
The world is watching in shock as Pakistan grapples with one of the worst floods in history. This week the UN estimated that the floods in southern Pakistan have displaced about a million people in a matter of two days. The massive floods began almost a month ago and have since displaced about 20 million […]
Two new reports – by Morgan Stanley and the Asian Development Bank – offer optimistic, albeit caveat-filled, appraisals of India’s long-term economic outlook. But whether the country can fulfill its potential is still an open question.
The High Court down the 7th Amendment to the Constitution of Bangladesh. This ruling deems unconstitutional the various decrees General Ershad passed through under martial law between March and November 1982. The 7th Amendment retroactively legitimated the very acts that successfully engineering the coup undertaken by then Chief of Army staff H.M. Ershad. Thus, striking […]
The recent approval by the Government of India for caste based census has aroused concerns among political parties as well as social scientists and ethnographers. For the self-proclaimed ‘modernists’ such regressive measures are likely to heighten caste consciousness among Indians. While the pragmatists argue that data on caste can help the government to better target […]
The IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Director, Mr. Masood Ahmed, offered this public statement yesterday: “The floods which have hit Pakistan in recent weeks and brought suffering to millions of people will also pose a massive economic challenge to the people and government of Pakistan. The scale of the tragedy means that the country’s […]
For my mental health, I never watch Pakistani television, be it state run or the so-called ‘private’ channels. And if I am forced for whatever reason to put up with it for an hour or so, it is, and I am not exaggerating here, the most painful experience; an experience I find difficult to explain […]
This weeks news has run the gamut of silly, inconsequential and headscratchingly troubling. In the first instance, the BNP leader and former Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia has said that if the sitting government fails to govern with the consent and agreement of the opposition, it should step down. Apart from the vainglory of the claim, […]
If the status quo continues, as is likely, and the Pakistani government remains mired in its own incompetence and impotence, the militants in Pakistan will have become more popular and will have built up their ranks in a way, so far, unforeseen. Today’s New York Times lays out the strategic issue in very stark terms: […]
A recent assessment by Pakistan’s top spy agency has concluded that Islamic militants pose a greater internal security threat to Pakistan than the Indian Army
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