South Asia

This article examines the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) a decade after its launch, highlighting the disparity between its ambitious promises and its actual outcomes. Through original data analysis and interviews…

The United Nations is scheduled to host its third meeting of international envoys to Afghanistan in Doha on June 30, 2024. This meeting aims to discuss and address significant…

India’s undermining of democratic principles through its extrajudicial policy of targeting pro-Khalistan leaders abroad carries negative implications for India-US relations. If India persists with such a policy, maintaining a strategic…

The closely integrated relationships of certain religious communities present a compelling counter-narrative to views on interfaith conflict. Indic-Islamic engagement in several South Asian “guru-pir” groups challenges the conception of religions…

Given India and China’s contentious relations, smaller states in South Asia, such as Nepal, face challenging geopolitical realities. Nepal seeks to maintain amicable ties with both of its powerful neighbors,…

The relationship between state power and historical memory is important to understand. As part of state-building projects, historical architectures are shaped and edited, identities are erased, and past…

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On 28 February 2013, thousands of people in Shahbag square erupted in jubilation. Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a prominent member of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Bangladesh’s largest Islamic political party,…

In some ways, a clash between the two Asian giants seems inevitable. This past December was the fifty-year anniversary of the Sino-Indian War, and the border dispute still has not…