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BIMSTEC Seeks to Succeed Where SAARC Failed

BIMSTEC Seeks to Succeed Where SAARC Failed

The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is increasingly positioned as the primary vehicle for...

09.06.2025 1

South Asian Voices

Soumya Bhowmick

China’s Shifting Landscape in Afghanistan

Once considered the Taliban’s “most important partner,” China faces a changed landscape in Afghanistan compared to the immediate aftermath of the...

09.06.2025 1

South Asian Voices

Sarah Godek

SAV Q&A on Third Party Intervention Post Pahalgam Pt 3: Daniel Markey on U.S. Role and Implications for Ties with India & Pakistan

On May 14, 2025, Daniel Markey spoke with South Asian Voices Editor-in-Chief Akriti Vasudeva Kalyankar and Associate Editor Elizabeth Zazycki on...

30.05.2025 1

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Sav Editorial Staff

Armed Rivalry: Assessing India and Pakistan’s Military Buildup Amid Renewed Tensions

India-Pakistan tensions have flared up into a crisis once again. On May 7, India launched missile strikes into mainland Pakistan and Pakistan-...

30.05.2025 1

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Xiao Liang

Are India-U.S. Relations Entering a Difficult Phase?

At a media briefing on May 13, India’s Ministry of External Affairs dismissed President Donald Trump’s claims of having “mediated” a “full and...

23.05.2025 1

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Rushali Saha

Myanmar’s Planned Elections Risk Breeding More Resentment

On April 8, 2025, the Myanmar military government—also called the Tatmadaw—reaffirmed its plans to hold multi-party elections by the second half of...

23.05.2025 2

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Ophelia Yumlembam

Can the Indus Waters Treaty Be Held in Abeyance? What the Law Allows

Two days after the April 22 attack in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir, New Delhi declared that its participation in the 1960 Indus Waters...

23.05.2025 1

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Mubashar Rizvi

Afghanistan’s Regional Engagement under Taliban 2.0

The Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in August 2021 dramatically altered regional geopolitics and security dynamics across South Asia....

09.05.2025 1

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Sav Editorial Staff

The Bangladesh-Pakistan-China Triangle and India’s Strategic Dilemma

After former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s deposition last summer, the country has been revamping its connections with many partners;...

09.05.2025 1

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Aparna Divya

Atoms for Partners?

SAV recently published a piece by Hely Desai on India’s development of small modular reactors and its implications for New Delhi’s nuclear energy...

09.05.2025 2

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Brigadier Zahir Kazmi

Nepal’s Royalist Revival? Democracy’s Crisis of Confidence

Every year, on Nepal’s Democracy Day, Gyanendra Shah, the country’s former monarch, addresses his former subjects via video. Shah generally bemoans...

09.05.2025 1

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Pranaya Rana

SAV Q&A with Lisa Curtis: The Pahalgam Crisis & U.S. role

On April 30, 2025, Lisa Curtis spoke with South Asian Voices Editor-in-Chief Akriti Vasudeva Kalyankar and Associate Editors Elizabeth Zazycki and...

07.05.2025 10

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Sav Editorial Staff

Pahalgam Aftermath: An Unfolding India-Pakistan Crisis

An April 22 attack on mostly Hindu tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pahalgam Valley killed 26 and touched off a serious crisis between...

07.05.2025 30

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Sav Editorial Staff

SAV Q&A on Third Party Intervention Post Pahalgam-Part 1 

With New Delhi’s precision strikes into mainland Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir on May 7, the crisis between India and Pakistan in the...

07.05.2025 40

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Sav Editorial Staff