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By all counts, and indications, a union like South Asian Free Trade Agreement (Safta), is still a distant dream. However, the signing of Safta may be the first step toward this union.
The message of Pakistan Foreign Minister, Khurdhid Mahmud Kasuri during his visit to New Delhi are outlined in this article. Kasuri maintains that New Delhi needs to discuss Kashmir seriously.
Until the attacks on September 11, 2001, the Kashmir dispute was lurking in the background. Since then, it has moved front and center, putting pressure on Pakistan.
South Asian labor force is fast increasing, adding to the already bad unemployment and poverty situation, and worsening the job market.
India Articles
After triumphantly toppling the Hindu nationalist regime of Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his Bharatiya Janata Party, Sonia Gandhi decides to forgo the office that was in her grasp.
The Indian government is committed to reform, but there is still question of whether it can deliver.
Dr. Manmohan Singh changed the way Indias economy moved. This article discusses his background and accomplishments.
Sharma discusses India as the country known to ensure that girls are never born and the social consequences behind this epidemic.
Bhatt, the founder of the Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA), discusses why she started the organization, womens movement, human values, and more.
This article discusses a day in the life of malnutrition, disease, and scarce daily necessities.
The supporters and critics of Chief Minister, Mayawati.
This article tells about the hardships endured the background of astronaut, Kalpana Chawla and her family.
The hierarchical castes within the Indian system are continually weakening. This is seen through family relationships, and economic and social status.
Indian soybean farmers rely on the Chicago Board of Trade and other global information technology to determine when to sell their crops.
China and many policy experts agree that foreign direct investment (FDI) is the route to economic development. However, India suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs have long-term advantage and that FDI is not the only path to prosperity.
China, the worlds workshop, is poised to become its tailor. What will happen to textile industries elsewhere, especially in South Asia?
Indias mighty Tata group is taking India Inc. to the next levelflexing its manufacturing muscle and building brands that compete on the global stage.
South Asia Articles
The question of whether Washington can help turn Afghanistan around or improve the current situation is one on many minds. This article discusses the strategies needed if Washington is to have a chance.
Hamid Karzai got what he wanted a mandate from the people. But he knows legitimacy depends as much, if not more, on what happens next.
The life of Siddiq Barmakfrom fleeing a country in a perpetual state of war, to his success of his movie Osama.
In India, social progress is slower and less broad-based than in Bangladesh, despite much faster economic growth. Human development is still poor, and Bangladesh is still one of the most deprived countries in the world, but social indicators are improving rapidly.
After 64 flooded districts, Bangladesh was an overwhelmed country. The devastation stumped experts and politicians and the timing and magnitude caught them completely off guard.
Bhutans biggest plus point is the smallness of its size and population. Therefore, it should not be that difficult for it to withstand the impact of a transformation from an absolute monarchy to a political democracy.
The latest round of talks between the governments of Bhutan and Nepal to resolve the Bhutanese refugee crisis has failed to provide a solution. An international conference to devise a solution is needed.
The kingdom of Bhutan is slowly opening up to the world. The performance by the Royal Academy of Performing Arts of Bhutan in Bangalore recently was proof of this.
The crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents in the Maldives puts under peril the countrys transition to full-fledged democracy, which will depend on the pace of reforms and the governments ability to convince its critics that it will deliver.
Buoyed by good weather, good location and lots of tourism, Maldivians live comfortable lives. However, there is concern over the rising sea that surrounds Maldives.
Nepal is at war with itself as it struggles to enter the 21st century. Foreign trekkers are treated well while residents suffer under Maoist brutality.
Maoists kill an average of 10 of King Gyanendra of Nepals subjects a day while he sits idle. The Kings lack of action has nearly everyone in the Himalayan kingdom guessing.
One of Americas most important partners in the war against terror, Pakistan, is also one of its biggest worries.
Established in 1996, as a replicate of Bangladeshs Grameen Bank, the Kashf Foundation has blossomed into a service to aide poor rural and urban women in Pakistan.
The Abdul Qadeer Khan network has been known to US and British intelligence. Still, only after the network began to offload unwanted centrifuges on Iran did Khan and his circle become a prime target.
Clarance explores the origins and complexities of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
The presidents victory at the polls will not restore stability.
The Maoists claim that a third of the Peoples Liberation Army is made up of women.
After a miraculous economic graduation from a scattering of poor fishing islets to South Asias richest country in just over two decades, the Maldives now demands democracy.
The devastating conflicts in Bengal over the 20th century denied to Calcutta over half of what would otherwise have been its commercial and linguistic hinterland. Due to these conflicts, Dhaka has now assumed a prominences that, a century ago, was unimaginable.
In his inaugural address, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan laid out his priorities for the next five yearshis top priority was stopping the countrys growing drug trade.
India has become a recognizable savvy business leader. The uproar over U.S. jobs being outsourced abroad, as well as recent raves in the media about graduates from the Indian Institute of Technology, have increased the buzz.
The Mahaweli projectspecifically with the Upper Mahaweli and the fate of the migrant families 20 years after they left, with the inundation of their traditional lands.
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