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Why Thailand Should Play A Role In Resolving The Rohingya Refugee Crisis by Pathik Hasan

Bangladesh is a Southeast Asian country geographically but South Asian culturally. Myanmar and Bangladesh are bordering countries, just like Thailand and Myanmar are neighboring countries. There are close historical and geographical ties among Myanmar, Thailand, and Bangladesh. Trilateral relations amongst these countries has been good. The three states could benefit hugely from Myanmar-Bangladesh ties. However, […]

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Nepal Should Play Role In The Rohingya Refugee Crisis by Pathik Hasan

Nepal and Bangladesh can work together on the repatriation of the Rohingya refugees. Nepal can play role in resolving the Rohingya crisis as a regional country because the Rohingya refugee crisis is a regional problem for both South Asia and Southeast Asia. Nepal and Bangladesh are two of South Asia’s closest friends and peace-loving neighbors, […]

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India Makes Bangladesh’s Part Of The Teesta River A Dead Canal by Hafizur Talukdar

Self-proclaimed as the world’s largest democracy, India has no respect for the rights of its neighbors. It knows only how to take from others and does not know the meaning of giving to others. India has been deceiving Bangladesh for many years by not signing its promised Teesta water-sharing agreement with Bangladesh since 1983. India […]

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Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina’s Meeting With Pakistani Envoy Has A Message For India by Pathik Hasan

The Pakistan High Commissioner to Bangladesh, Imran Ahmed Siddiqui’s recent meeting with Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was comprehensively covered in the media. It only shows the strategic significance of the meeting. The meeting has messages for the region, including some ominous signs for India, as it has the potential to change the entire regional […]

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SAARC Simultaneously Needs Reformation And A Forum by Mohammad Zainal Abedin

The martyred former President of Bangladesh, Ziaur Rahman dreamt of the idea of forming a strong and viable forum comprising of the South Asian countries to secure their sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and economic prosperity by promoting cooperation in all sectors. All the countries, including India, welcomed President Zia’s proposal. But India virtually undertook a dilly-dally […]

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Why Bangladesh Can’t Afford The QUAD by Mohammad Zainal Abedin

Bangladesh seems to have denied its entrance to the four-nation military alliance, the QUAD ( The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue), consisting of the U. S., Japan, Australia, and India. These four countries have, since 2007, been aiming China and have separately conducted naval exercises in the South China Sea, and the Indo-Pacific region. The Quad is purely […]

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Joe Biden’s Effect On Saudi Arabia’s MBS by Giorgio Cafiero

Soon after Iran’s Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia began viewing the new government in Tehran as a grave threat. The ideology promoted across the Middle East by the Islamic Republic scared the Al Saud royals who had witnessed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lead a popular revolution under the banner of Islam that […]

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Drawing The Right Lessons After India’s 2019 Brinkmanship With Pakistan by Muhammad Syrus Sajjad Qazi

Two years ago, South Asia came to the brink of a catastrophic conflict. On February 14, 2019, a young Kashmiri man in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) carried out a suicide attack on a contingent of the Indian Occupation Army, killing 44 soldiers. Using this incident as an excuse, India first blamed, then […]

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The Horrible Character Of The Largest Democracy by Mohammad Zainal Abedin

The way Narendra Modi is handling the current farmers’ movement raises some serious questions whether India is really a democratic country, though its rulers and policymakers proudly claim it is the largest democracy in the world. But the way India is ruled says otherwise. A democratic country has some basic characteristics, which are not available in […]

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Why Water War Is A Big Myth by Ashok Swain

Politicians, pundits, and the press regularly proclaim that water has become the new oil, and the world is on the verge of witnessing several water wars. Despite these repeated warnings for several decades, particularly since the late 1980s, there has not been any war over water. The world has never witnessed a water war in […]