Khuram Iqbal & Safdar Sial

I. Overview of Conflicts

Caught in various Intera-state and inter-state armed conflicts, South Asia is considered to be the most volatile part of the world. It represents around one and a half billion people or one quarter....more

Muhammad Amir Rana

The government officials in India and Pakistan are claiming that the peace process between the two countries is about to yield a solution of Kashmir issue.
The demilitarization and militancy in Kashmir were the major difference...more

Khuram Iqbal

India:
ULFA, Naxalites, Turn by Turn
After a bloody start of year 2007 in Indian state Assam that claimed at least 147 people in January, Indian government was capable enough to deal....more

Ahmed Yar Ranjha

Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri’s visit to India was a very difficult and delicate matter amid Pakistan Railways minister Sh. Rashid Ahmed’s nude criticism on Indian government after Samjhota Express tragedy...more

Khuram Iqbal

India

Indian Government remained successful this month in dealing with United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), an insurgent group in Assam. Outlawed ULFA itself offered Government for resuming the suspended peace talks....more

Mujtaba Rathoor

Until the 1990s, Bangladesh was considered a liberal society but that concept has changed rapidly since then. In the last general elections held in 2001, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Islamic Oikya Jote won 20 seats jointly.....more

Khuram Iqbal

On January 13, 2007, South Asia Net published a report on Nepal, which perceived that after the accomplishment of People revolt in Nepal, Hindu extremist groups in the country backed by the Hardliner Hindu outfits in India would react as the anti-revolutionary forces in Nepal...more

Khuram Iqbal

1. India
Security in Eastern India Worst than Kashmir
Security situation in Eastern states of India is getting worst as compared to Kashmir. The number of daily militancy-related killings in Indian-held Kashmir has fallen by 70 percent...more