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SAV Q&A on Third Party Intervention Post Pahalgam Pt 2: Andrew Small on Chinese Tech and U.S. Mediation
The four-day kinetic confrontation between India and Pakistan ended in a ceasefire on May 10, 2025, but observers are still grappling with the sequence of strikes and counterstrikes, assessing claims of damage by both sides, and parsing strategic narratives. On…
BIMSTEC Seeks to Succeed Where SAARC Failed
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is increasingly positioned as the primary vehicle for regional cooperation in South Asia amid the decline of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). BIMSTEC – comprising…
Pakistan, the IMF, and an Opportunity for Reform
Is Pakistan’s economy out of the woods and has it finally stabilized under the tutelage of successive International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs? That was a question on at least a few minds at the recently concluded IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings…
Myanmar’s Planned Elections Risk Breeding More Resentment
On April 8, 2025, the Myanmar military government—also called the Tatmadaw—reaffirmed its plans to hold multi-party elections by the second half of December this year and the first half of January next year. Parties have been asked to file their…
Can the Indus Waters Treaty Be Held in Abeyance? What the Law Allows
Two days after the April 22 attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi declared that its participation in the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) would be “held in abeyance” until Pakistan “credibly and irrevocably abjures ” with cross-border terrorism.…
India-Pakistan Spiraling Towards a Perilous Abyss
The deadly terror attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, which was initially claimed by The Resistance Front, an entity India accuses of being linked with Pakistan-based banned group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), has New Delhi and Islamabad staring at the specter of…