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All media attention is now focused on the opening of the Kartarpur Corridor, which will connect Dera Baba Nanak (Panjab, India) with Darbar Sahib (Kartarpur, Narowal District Pakistan). The agreement to operationalize this corridor was signed between both countries on October 24, 2019.
The two shrines are less than 5...
Act Far East Policy: India’s Bear Hug
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid an official visit to Russia in September 2019. The 20th India–Russia Annual Summit was held in Vladivostok....
Has the US Lost the Plot in Syria?
By withdrawing the entire contingent of 1,000 troops from Northern Syria, the Americans lost the entire presence in Syria by ceding vital ground to...
California Fires: The Remorseless Revenge of History – A Paradise Lost
History is taking a fantastic step backwards by building the ruins of the future.
Once again, wildfires are burning across California, sparked by the dumping...
The Dependency Model: United States and the Gulf
The foregone conclusion of the United States reliance on its allies in the West Asian region is on resurgence. But the alliance network does...
Cambodia’s Sam Rainsy, the self-exiled opposition leader landed in Kuala Lumpur over the weekend, vowing to return home to lead an uprising against his country’s long-serving Prime Minister and former Khmer Rouge officer Hun Sen. The Cambodian government meanwhile had blasted Rainsy’s attempt as a potential coup d’etat against...
Migration is a common phenomenon which has increased in the last few years. People have migrated from one place to another from the very beginning of human evolution. As per the UNHCR, “The Asia and Pacific region is home to 7.7 million people of concern. They include 3.5 million...
Malaysia provides a lesson to countries in Asia and beyond about how seemingly timeless dominance of power can instantly disappear when the popular will is exercised.
The Barisan Nasional coalition held uninterrupted power in Malaysia for six decades. Its defeat at the hands of the Alliance of Hope coalition led...
Myanmar’s State Counselor, Aung San Suu Kyi (the de facto leader of the ruling National League For Democracy government), while delivering a Keynote speech at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (held along side the ASEAN Summit) in November 2018, pitched for greater investments from ASEAN countries. During her her address...
