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Last week’s elections are a cause for celebration in light of the military’s decades-long stranglehold on powerIt’s not often that Pakistanis find something to cheer about, given the severity of the country’s cost of living, security, energy, employmen…
Read MoreInstead of acting as a responsible superpower, China is putting millions of lives at risk in the region and beyondMilitary coups and dictatorships rarely come to any good. But has any army takeover in recent times led to more utterly disastrous consequ…
Read MoreHorrors at sea will continue until the west faces up to its responsibilities and recognises its part in the plight of refugeesThe nationalities of the several hundred people assumed to have drowned in the latest, terrible migrant boat tragedy in the Me…
Read MoreAs his country overtakes China as the world’s most populous, Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is escalating its attack on civil rightsIndia has many things going for it these days but the growing authoritarianism of prime minister Narendra …
Read MoreGovernments on both sides of the Atlantic are still failing to take responsibility for abandoning the Afghan people to the TalibanThe fall of Kabul in August 2021 and the accompanying chaotic evacuation of US and UK forces, foreign nationals and limite…
Read MoreThe country faces a long road to recovery, but there are hopeful signs that its democracy will survive the predatory rule of the RajapaksasSri Lankans are to be congratulated on their ousting of the Rajapaksa family, crowned by last week’s hasty flight…
Read MoreThe west must not stand by and allow a million children to die of starvation this winterDuring 20 years of war in Afghanistan, according to the US-based Watson Institute’s Costs of War Project, about 176,000 people were killed, of whom 46,000 were civi…
Read MoreThe Islamists haven’t mended their ways but the population they wish to subjugate won’t submit without a struggleThe fall of Kabul in November 2001 was celebrated by rightwing British newspapers and commentators as something akin to Victorian imperial …
Read MoreThe Taliban’s rapid advance is chilling but a united response can still avert catastropheThe fall of Afghanistan to fundamentalist Taliban forces is a disaster foretold. Although the capital, Kabul, remains in government hands, the scale and speed of t…
Read MoreThis shabby, half-hidden retreat by western forces abandons a nation to mayhem, civil war and terrorThe conflict in Afghanistan – America’s longest war – is at an end, or so President Joe Biden is expected to declare this week. At an end, too, is Brita…
Read MoreAs the military cracks down ever harder on protesters, the west and China must work together to prevent disasterIt began with red balloons and ribbons, silent symbols of resistance to Myanmar’s military coup. Then came the subversive banging and clangi…
Read MoreNarendra Modi’s high-handed action over the disputed territory is likely to revive conflict with PakistanThe crisis over Kashmir, triggered by the Indian government’s decision to impose direct rule from Delhi, has universal relevance. It says much abou…
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