South Asia Citizens Web

research study on potential impacts of nuclear war between India-Pakistan

An address by Tufts University professor Ayesha Jalal, marks the launch of an annual lecture series in honor of the late Asma Jehangir, a leading human rights activist from South Asia. Lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC on 3 Oct 2019

INDIAN leaders of unbridled ambition and meagre wisdom have recently suggested that India might revoke its earlier policy of No First Use (NFU) of nuclear weapons. They should be forgiven. To stay in the public eye, South Asia’s street-smart politicians need to make a lot of noise all the time.

Since Yogi Adityanath became the chief minister of India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh the standards and norms of law enforcement by the police and even the judiciary have undergone visible mutation.

After forty years of war, it can be hard to remember who all your enemies were and why. Fawzia Koofi, a former deputy speaker of the Afghan parliament who has struggled through the tides of rising and falling regimes, recalled the day when her father’s body was brought back to her village. Her father, Abdul Rahman, had also been a member of parliament, and after Afghanistan’s first Communist coup in 1978, led a delegation from his village into the mountains to meet with leaders of the budding armed resistance, the Mujahideen.