Sharif’s party won the most seats by a single party in Thursday’s election, but supporters of imprisoned Khan, who ran as independents instead of as a single bloc after his party was barred from the polls, won the most seats overall.
By Subir Bhaumik The Chinese strategic calculus Since 2010, Chinese influence is growing in Bangladesh.
While globalisation is known for heralding faster cross-border movement of capital and people thus expanding their exposure and opportunities, these movements have become increasingly securitised, radicalised, gendered and sexualised.
Among the main challenges that the Central Asian countries and the UN are jointly overcoming are the problems of stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan, countering the threats of terrorism and extremism, radicalization, drug trafficking and organized crime, solving urgent problems in the areas of environmental and water security, etc.
During its 20-year stay in Afghanistan, the US government had said that the country is estimated to hold at least $1 trillion worth of lithium which could help pull out the country from its economic mess. For the Taliban, which is still trying to establish an effective government in the country in the face of global opposition and frozen bank accounts, China seems to give hope.
PM Narendra Modi’s state visit to the US in June 2023 has added further momentum to the critical technology cooperation between India and the US as the significant defence contracts, particularly the agreement for the production of jet engines in India, have generated considerable excitement among the technology and defence enthusiasts.
Russia’s war on Ukraine has helped put the spotlight on Central Asia. It is there that the new Great Game is being played out, with great powers wooing the region, even as Russia continues to remain distracted with Ukraine
A feud between the Wagner Group leader and the Russian military brass that had festered throughout the war erupted into a mutiny on Sunday that saw the mercenaries leave Ukraine to seize a military headquarter in Russia’s Roston-on-Don city before turning back
In Uzbekistan in recent years, all the necessary prerequisites have appeared for the creation of a social state and the consolidation of this status in the Constitution
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China is more popular with elites than with the public in Central Asian countries