While die-hard feudal monarchists of Nepal have been preparing everything they can in the background to thwart conflict transformation and state restructuring processes, monarchists within the government-heading Nepali Congress have asked their top leadership not to hold joint regional mass meetings with the Maoists. The Maoists, following a decade-long armed insurgency, has entered the peace […]
Uncertainties as Pakistan ends bloodiest year in history
Although the outgoing year, in its usual mixed bag way, threw up a number of good times and bad sides, for the Asian nation of Pakistan, 2007 was an exceptionally terrible year. Founded on August 14, 1947, the receding year marked Pakistan’s Diamond Jubilee, but instead of celebrations and projections of this nation’s strong sides […]