To say that America’s Afghanistan debacle has put the cat amongst the pigeons would be a grave understatement! For now, the area has become a hotbed of more uncertainty and instability. An abrupt and poorly planned end to more than 20 years of occupation will do that to a region. On cue, recriminations have started…
Dear Readers, The government’s announcement on January 14, 2022 and the officially launching of the abridged 48 pages of the National Security Policy (NSP) 2022-2026 generated a great deal of public debate. It has been criticized for not having been inclusive in its formulation, many alleged that the document was prepared without any consultative or interactive…
Bomb/IED Attacks A man was killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in the Mamma Khel area of Mirali tehsil (revenue unit) in North Waziristan District on December 28, reports Daily Times. The explosive material was attached to a water tube well. At least four people were killed and 15 injured in an explosion near the…
200 years of British colonialism and globalization have drastically changed the upper crust of South Asian civilizations. The South Asian subcontinent is a relatively isolated space. In the northwest, north and northeast it is surrounded by the highest mountain chains of the world, the Hindukush, Karakorum and Himalaya and the eastern and western sides down…
Islam is the second largest religion with about 600 million Muslims, forming about one third of South Asia’s population. South Asia has the largest population of Muslims in the world, with about one-third of all Muslims being from South Asia. Islam is the dominant religion in half of the South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives…
In the game of chess, there is a move called the “skewer” where the player loses if he makes a choice and loses if he doesn’t make a choice. This is the condition of Afghanistan at the moment and the losing side are the poor people of Afghanistan who are caught in the cross-fire of…
Hinduism covers a wide variety of related religious traditions native to the Indian subcontinent. There is a certain influence of Hindu civilization in places where Hindus have settled over the centuries in a sizeable number like for instance in Southeast Asia. There is a scholarly dispute about the origins of Hindu civilization. Mainly western historians,…
The Gandhara civilization existed in what is now Northern Pakistan and Afghanistan from the middle of the 1st millennium BC to the beginning of the 2nd millennium AD. Although multiple major powers ruled over this area during that time, they all had in common great reverence for Buddhism and the adoption of the Indo Greek…
The Indus Valley Civilisation was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1300 BC, and in its mature form from 2600 BC to 1900 BC. Together with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was one of three early civilisations of the Near East and South Asia,…
There are other places of the stone age human activities in South Asia so far no place has been found that matches the splendour of Mehrgarh. This could be due to the missing archeological research in those areas. Northeast India being one of the most diverse regions of Asia in terms of human civilization through…
