SOUTHASIA Online

Filter  MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Year20002001200220032004200520062007200820092010 5101520253050100All Filter

• The White Revolution

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Hafsa Ahsan

  Pakistan is the fourth largest milk producing country in the world and has a huge potential to grow and contribute to the economy. When one searches relevant material of the dairy farming and milk production in Pakistan, the only keywords which appear...

• Caged Spirits of Sri Lanka

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Naima Ahmed

  Hidden from the world, the Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka remain confined within razor fences and hopelessness. The Sri Lankan government had promised it will look after them; after all, the government needed their support during the brutal fights agains...

• The New Wind Down East

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Tehreem Mahmood

  What does the change in leadership mean for the Japan-US relationship? In the era of change, Japan has recently witnessed a huge and the most dynamic change in its political setup. After ruling since 1955, Japan’s ruling party Liberal Democratic Party (...

• A New China?

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Newsweek

  As China celebrates its 60th anniversary of communist rule, the one-party system looks more and more unlikely to last another 60. Questions about who will succeed Chinese President Hu Jintao in 2012 are increasing because two coalitions of almost equal po...

• Himalayas Weep

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Saira Mumtaz

  Climate change in the Himalayas will adversely affect habitats and ecosystems in the region and endanger the very existence of life. South Asian countries came together for the first time at a climate mini-summit in Kathmandu ahead of the Copenhagen meeti...

• Crime Scene

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Sara Iqbal

  Hardly a day passes in Bangladesh without the newspapers carrying photos of corpses of murder victims lying in hospitals, on the streets or in rural fields. Many of them are reported killed in notorious “cross fire” between criminals and law-enforceme...

• Cyber warfare: Pakistan’s New Battlefield

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Farzana Shah

  The new battlefield of cyberspace involves tactics more detrimental than traditional warfare and poses a huge threat for Pakistan. As if sea, land and air warfare have not been enough, traditional arch rivals India and Pakistan are now facing each other i...

• An Aimless Fight

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Kuldip Nayar

  Even after 62 years of independence, democratic India is in the midst of at least five internal mini-war. People all over the world are watching how India will measure up to moral standards while dealing with uprisings The main ones in Nagaland and Kashmi...

• Grand US

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Dr Moonis Ahmar

  Is the US expansion plan in Pakistan aimed at deepening its presence in the country? How does Pakistan seek to protect its sovereignty? No other country is a source of so many conspiracy theories in Pakistan as the United States. There is a long history o...

• Balochistan at the Boiling Point

  Regional

  Created: October, 2009 Author: S.G. Jilanee

  The writing on the wall is clear. The time to act is now. Later may be too late. On August 11, this year, Prince Dawood Sulaiman, the present Khan of Kalat, now in London, proclaimed the unilateral Declaration of Independence for Balochistan. He also reje...

• A Priceless Story

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Humaira Naz

  Previously, whenever rural India was mentioned, stereotypical images of vast green but underdeveloped lands and poor rural workers toiling endlessly in the intense heat used to spring to mind. This is what one had witnessed through brief glimpses of...

• Spa Wonders

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Asma Shabab

  Ayurvedic massages are a soothing regimen of massage, meditation, herbal medication and yoga and have become the hottest trend in today’s spa industry. Within my circle of friends, there is a common belief that after a hard, stressful week at work, t...

• Energy Imperatives Drive Indian Foreign Policy

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: SAO

  Under the auspices of a marketing company, a lecture was delivered in Pakistan last month by Dr Marie Lall, South Asia specialist at the University of London. The speaker explained India’s current position in the global context as well as the South ...

• River Love

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Mohsin Ali

  River gypsies in Bangladesh have decided to give up their nomadic lifestyle as the rivers are increasingly becoming erratic. What future do they now have? At the end of every year, after the monsoon rains, about 800,000 river gypsies in Bangladesh, kno...

• Rental Power Projects - a Quick Fix?

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Tehreem Mehmood

  Karachi - the City of Lights? Talk about a misnomer. The largest city of The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has been a victim of acute power shortages since the last couple of years and it seems that of late, the entire nation has descended into darknes...

• Water Safari

  Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Sabih Ikram

  The Maldives is home to diverse marine life and showcases some of the rare marine species. It is an extravaganza to experience. The Maldives is rightly described as “a treasure trove of marine life”. The abundance of marine life in the Maldives is...

• Is He Still Relevant?

  Cover Stories

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Javed Ansari

  He may be down but, by all indications, he is not out. Is the scene being set for Pervez Musharraf to play a future role in Pakistan? It was an interesting coincident that just when the President of Pakistan, Mr. Asif Ali Zardari was on a visit to the...

• Perception vs. Reality

  Cover Stories

  Created: October, 2009 Author: Shafqat Mehmoo

  The government’s lack of performance, stories of corruption and being too close to America does agitate the people, but this is not likely to translate into its removal. For a situation that appears so benign on the surface, too many people ask what...

• The Minus Game

  Cover Stories

  Created: October, 2009 Author: S.G. Jilanee

  Less than a year after the much longed-for return to democracy, some political players are back at their old game of trying to topple the government. The old buzz about “mid-term elections” is doing the rounds again. Choudhry Nisar has announced that ...

• 'South Asia has Tremendous Potential and has Shown Positive Trends'

  Special Features

  Created: October, 2009 Author: SAO

  Ajay Chhibber, Director of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, in an exclusive interview to SouthAsia discussed the potential of South Asian development and the role of UNDP. ...