Pakistan enters 2020 slouched under the burden of a weak democracy with a strong military, a tense neighbourhood and a geopolitical environment under pressure from US–China great power rivalry. With political instability and a plummeting economy weakening, the civilian government’s dependence on the military has grown. Pakistan also faces deteriorating relations with India and amid …
•US frustrated with Pak’s continued support to Taliban, other terror groups. •Cuts both military and economic aid sharply. •US aid is set to fall to below $1 bn in 2016 — down from over 3.5 bn in 2011 The United States has cut both military and economic aid to Pakistan sharply in recent years, reflecting …
Political violence in Myanmar predates the country itself. On the eve of colonial Burma’s independence from the United Kingdom, a pair of hit men walked into the Rangoon Secretariat in July 1947 and gunned down what would have been the new country’s leadership, headed by national hero Gen. Aung San. Five months earlier, at a …
A new report shows conditions are worse for Afghanistan’s growing number of displaced Afghanistan has failed to live up to a 2014 pledge to care for people displaced by conflict within its borders, according to a report released today, even as the number of displaced has doubled to 1.2 million over the past three years. …