Regional Fallout of India’s Citizenship Amendment Act
In December, both houses of the Indian Parliament passed and the president signed the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), 2019, a legislation modifying the Citizenship Act, […]
Month: January 2020
Imran Khan and the Elusive Mainstreaming of FATA
This month Pakistan pledged it would spend USD $1 billion a year for the next decade on mainstreaming its tribal areas. The funding and other […]
The Potential Impact of Qassem Soleimani’s Death on South Asia
Earlier this month, Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-Quds Force, was killed by the United States in Baghdad. Although the initial […]
پاکستان ۲۰۱۹ میں: سال بھر کا جائزہ
فروری میں بھارت کے ساتھ پیدا ہونے والے پلوامہ/ بالا کوٹ بحران سے لے کے اکتوبر میں فنانشل ایکشن ٹاسک فورس کی بلیک لسٹ میں […]
China, India, and Bangladesh’s Contentious Water Politics
In 2016, Ashfaqul Chowdhury examined China, India, and Bangladesh’s disparate priorities with respect to the Brahmaputra River, which has generated mutual distrust among them and complicated […]
Year in Review: Afghanistan’s Tumultuous 2019 Paves Way for an Uncertain 2020
2019 was set to be a decisive year for Afghanistan, in which certain political developments had the potential to position the country either on the […]
جنوبی ایشیاء میں نیوکلیئر تنصیبات پر عدم حملوں کے معاہدے کو جدید تقاضوں کے مطابق ڈھالنا
تعارف یکم جنوری ۲۰۱۷ کو ہندوستانی اور پاکستانی سفارتکاروں نے اپنے اپنے ممالک میں واقع جوہری تنصیبات کی سرکاری فہرستوں کا تبادلہ کیا۔ اس وقت […]
How the Kuala Lumpur Summit Complicates India’s Gulf Relations
In the last weeks of December 2019, leaders from five key Muslims nations—Malaysia, Turkey, Qatar, Iran, and Indonesia—met in Kuala Lumpur in a bid to […]
A Lukewarm Commitment: India and Gender Equality in Security Affairs
Nearly two decades after the United Nations adopted the landmark Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, India remains one of the many member states that […]
Amid a Majoritarian Overdrive, Simmering Fault Lines and Rising Unrest in India
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election in May 2019, the majoritarian impulse of the administration’s domestic policy decisions—from the abrogation of Article 370 to the […]