South Asia Citizens Web

The U.S. has already gone to great lengths to accommodate the Taliban and Pakistan. Such is the measure of its strategic desperation that contrary to its earlier position, it has accepted the Taliban’s vague assurances regarding Afghan territory not being used to foment violence outside the country. Also, for many months the U.S. and its European partners had almost given up on the reconciliation process and the focus was on a credible Afghan presidential election so that an effective and cohesive political leadership, post-2014 and post-Karzai , could take on the Taliban insurgency. No statement or comment since June 18 mentions the political process as mandated by the Afghan Constitution at all.

In an incident that appears to be unique in the history of Pakistan, nine foreign tourists and their Pakistani guide have been murdered in an attack that by mid-afternoon on Sunday was being claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan. There have been rare instances of foreign tourists being attacked or robbed, and two or three reported murders over decades, but never a mass slaying such as this.

Afghanistan’s women fear Taliban’s return to power would ’wipe away’ hard-won achievements of past 11 years

On IPTA (Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association) and PWA (Progressive Writers’ Association) in the first year after independence, from Habib Tanvir, the theatre maestro’s posthumous memoirs

Online petition re Media Coverage on Disaster in Uttrakhand and Narendra Modi visit to the area.