South Asia
Imran Khan: “I will come back with a strong government”
by Dure Akram
reporting for UWI from Lahore, Pakistan
May 10, 2023
Revolutionaries come in all shapes and forms and while former Prime Minister Imran Khan may...
Sri Lanka’s energy crisis and the geopolitics of Jaishankar, Nuland visits
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Visits to Sri Lanka by two top foreign officials took place within a fortnight, recently. The optics of these tightly choreographed events...
Maïdan, bis repetita au Sri Lanka ?
par Jean-Pierre Page
Pour avoir vécu une quinzaine d'années au Sri Lanka, je pense connaître un peu ce pays dont Octave Mirbeau disait "qu'il était...
Au sujet du Sri Lanka
par Jean - Pierre Page
Cette mise au point que je veux faire ici ne saurait signifier de ma part un quelconque soutien au président...
Pakistani PM ousted. He is accusing US of conspiracy
By KATHY GANNON and MUNIR AHMED
April 10, 2022
Pakistan’s political opposition toppled Prime Minister Imran Khan in a no-confidence vote in Parliament early Sunday after...
Pakistan PM Imran Khan claims US helping local parties oust him...
Apr. 1, 2022
In a televised address to the nation, the Pakistani prime minister accused local opposition parties of working with the United States to...
Putin and Xi pledge to keep peace in Central Asia, after...
25 Aug, 2021
photo: © Sputnik
Moscow and Beijing will work together to secure the region around Afghanistan, after Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese premier...
Afghanistan: Drawing the lessons
By Herman Michiel
17 August 2021
We saw Taliban troops parade in the presidential palace in Kabul, from which President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. The largely...
Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ,
TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL
Aug. 15, 2021
AP Photo/Rahmat Gul
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday,...
Stop the War Coalition: Statement on Afghanistan
The disaster now unfolding in Afghanistan is the consequence of a twenty-year long failed military intervention. The responsibility rests with the US, British and other...