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Statesman News Service

Dhaka factor in Indo-US ties

This threat created an unprecedented political maelstrom in Bangladesh and pulled out many forces from dormancy, including radical Islamic outfits which nearly turned the Muslimmajority nation of 165 million Bengalis into a new Afghanistan merely a decade ago.

Asian roulette

There was time left yet ~ and there still is ~ for Zaka Ashraf to take the Pakistan Cricket Board over, with political assistance which in turn was reliant on martial blessings, when, with one salvo, the former bank executive turned the Asia Cup upside down.

Indo-Pak ties

A commentary in Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper notes “Today, the power imbalance between Pakistan and India has rendered Pakistan almost irrelevant in India’s strategic calculus. A failing, fragmented state ~ if not a ‘twice failed state,’ as former diplomat Ashraf Jahangir Qazi puts it, begging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the revival of its deal is hardly a threat anymore to a rising giant like India.”