Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 03/02/2017 - 09:57
Note No. 779 Dated 02-Mar-2017
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
On 21st February, after a marathon Cabinet Meeting, Prime Minister Dahal announced that the Local Body Elections will be held in May 14 in one go. The elections were last held in 1997.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/24/2017 - 09:08
Paper No. 6226 Dated 24-Feb-2017
By Dr. S.Chandrasekharan
It is well known that Pakistan is one of the most “water stressed” countries of the world. Currently its per capita annual water capability is 1017 cubic metres- that is perilously close to a threshold of 1000 cubic metres. Back in 2009, it was 1500 cubic metres.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/17/2017 - 08:52
Note No. 778 Dated 17-Feb-2017
By Dr. S. Chandrasekharan
Recently, Prime Minister Dahal declared that Local bodies elections are an urgent need of the country. Yet there appears to be no immediate chance of elections being held.
It is known to all that the three layers of elections- namely local bodies, regional/state level and the Federal Elections will all have to be held before 21st January 2018. It is mandatory and the constitution does not permit any extension.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Wed, 02/08/2017 - 05:50
Paper No. 6220 Dated 08-Feb-2017
Guest Column by Alexander Murray
On 4 February, the UN Security Council (UNSC) agreed to remove Hezb-e-Islami-e-Gulbuddin (HIG) power-broker and former Afghan Prime Minister, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, from its international sanctions list. Having negotiated a truce with HIG and settled on the peaceful terms of Hekmatyar’s reintegration into Afghan civil society, the government of President Ashraf Ghani is sure to welcome the news.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/03/2017 - 05:17
Paper No. 6218 Dated 03-Feb-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
South China Sea conflict escalation in2017 hovers as a distinct possibility with the maximalist positons taken by China and the new US Trump Administration in opposing China’s claims.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 01/27/2017 - 05:36
Paper No. 6216 Dated 27-Jan-2017
By Dr Subhash Kapila
Asia’s new geopolitical matrix in 2017 will be determined by the challenges that US President throws at China and the likely reset of US polices on Russia and it is in this churning Asian geopolitics that Japan and India will be called upon as Asia’s Emerged Powers to act in unison to meet the challenges so arising.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 01/19/2017 - 08:34
Paper No. 6215 Dated 19-Jan-2017
Guest Column by Prof. Charles Sarvan
Epigraph: Those who have power in the present, control the story of the past; and those who control the past, shape the future.
(Adapted from Orwell’s dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four.)
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