... Agency (CIA) Leon Panetta Saturday met Indian National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan here to discuss terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan and its impact on India and South Asia, highly placed government sources said on Saturday. Panetta, who arrived in the Indian national capital late Friday night after his visit to Pakistan, had a 30- ...

... governance structure, and bureaucracy . This WB blog post does take a differential look as required, which is not common among South Asian analysts (who actually exclusively look at India and Pakistan and refer it as South Asia; there are six other countries that are member of SAARC!) Anyway, below are trend of some economic indicators for Nepal (compared ...

... the WEF, the status of women in Pakistan, and the rest of South Asia, continues to vary considerably across different classes, ... ranking higher than India are located in Central and East Asia. Overall, Nordic nations offer women the most equal treatment ... UK ranks 15 and the United States at 31. Clearly, South Asians in general, and Pakistanis in particular, have a long way to go toward achieving ...

... . Estimates by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) indicate that by 2010, Asia will still account for about one-half of the world’s undernourished population, of which ... of the various safety net programmes is very useful. I didn’t know that there is a Food Bank in South Asia however it has not been used. The authors then point the need to work on this food bank and increase trade ...

Cross Post from LIRNE Asia. Written by Rohan Samarajiva on October 24, 2009. According to the ITU ICTeye, which ... palpitations in government offices in Dhaka. Bangladesh was one of the earliest in South Asia to adopt mobile and is the most densely populated country in ... the negative growth in India wiping out all the gains in the rest of South Asia. South Asia is clearly the territory of the mobile.

... in censorship and imagining the enemy knows nothing of what we are doing. — S.C. Lind Censorship in South Asia dissects the history and socio-political ... censorship in India, which have been transcribed into the public culture of the South Asian society over the years. The book digs ... nature of the press can be a hard task. Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time ...