South Asia

The Great Himalayan Watershed

Jul 23rd, 2009 | By Omer Khalid | Category: South Asia

Since we tend to take water for granted, it is almost always a bad sign when it is in the news; and lately there has been all too much water-related news from some of Asia’s most populous nations.

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Obama’s Afghanistan?

Jun 2nd, 2009 | By Omer Khalid | Category: Featured, South Asia

The Af-Pak war is unlikely to become a real Vietnam in scale, but it may have the capacity to inflict upon the US the sort of defeat the US itself once helped inflict upon the Russians

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