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Nepal’s Royalist Revival? Democracy’s Crisis of Confidence
Every year, on Nepal’s Democracy Day, Gyanendra Shah, the country’s former monarch, addresses his former subjects via video. Shah generally bemoans the state of the country, offers platitudes, and ends with the customary royal invocation of Pashupatinath as Nepal’s protector…

The Water Variable in South Asia’s Security Calculus
At the two-day international environmental conference hosted by Islamabad called “Breathe Pakistan" last month, former minister Sherry Rehman remarked that "climate change knows no borders." Her comments suggested that just as the challenge of changing environmental patterns is transboundary, the…

नेपाल में चीन का बढ़ता प्रभाव
दिसंबर 2024 के आरम्भ में, नेपाली प्रधान मंत्री के.पी. शर्मा ओली ने चीन की आधिकारिक यात्रा की - चौथी बार प्रधान मंत्री बनने के पश्चात् विदेश में यह उनकी पहली द्विपक्षीय यात्रा थी। ओली की बीजिंग यात्रा पर नेपाली और विदेशी राजनीतिक और रणनीतिक…

نیپال میں چین کے بڑھتے ہوئے رسوخ کا جائزہ
دسمبر 2024 کے اوائل میں نیپالی وزیر اعظم کے پی شرما اولی نے چین کا سرکاری دورہ کیا (جو) چوتھی بار وزیر اعظم بننے کے بعد ان کا پہلا دو طرفہ بیرونِ ملک دورہ (تھا)۔ بنیادی طور پر دو وجوہات…

Assessing China’s Growing Footprint in Nepal
In early December 2024, Nepali Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli paid an official visit to China — his first bilateral visit abroad after becoming prime minister for the fourth time. Oli’s visit to Beijing was keenly watched by political…

2024: Year in Review
2024 was a year of domestic upheaval and economic challenges for many countries in the subcontinent. It was also a year of political transition, as seen in Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, and continuing to deal with the impacts of…