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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...

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South Asian Voices

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...

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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...

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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 1

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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 2

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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...

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Sav Editorial Staff

Post Pahalgam, Does Diplomacy Have a Chance?

India and Pakistan are on the precipice of a crisis once again, following an attack on tourists in the Pahalgam area in the Anantnag district of...

01.05.2025 1

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Sitara Noor

Indo-Pak Dynamics and the Kashmir Issue in the Wake of the Pahalgam Attack

The recent terror at t ack in Pahalgam, which targeted unarmed civilians and killed 26 people, marks a dangerous escalation between nuclear rivals...

01.05.2025 3

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Sarral Sharma

The Fragility of Stability: India-Pakistan Nuclear CBMs in the Shadow of Pahalgam

The ensuing India-Pakistan crisis in the aftermath of the Pahalgam attack has once again put the fragile architecture of regional stability under...

29.04.2025 10

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Haleema Saadia

Pahalgam Aftermath: Assessing the Escalatory Potential of India and Pakistan’s Responses

As its first response to the terrorist attacks in Pahalgam in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22, initially claimed by an offshoot of the...

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Bashir Ali Abbas