Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan’s foreign minister visits Bangladesh as the two countries reset relations, additional U.S. tariffs on India take effect, and former ...
On Aug. 5, 2024, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, facing massive protests against her government, fled the capital of Dhaka for India, where she remains in exile. She faces serious ...
Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump have gutted the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the long-standing U.S. program focused on humanitarian aid. But despite cries of outrage from ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus finds himself under pressure as calls for elections grow louder, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri visits ...
In June 2017, Indian and Chinese troops stared each other down on the windswept Doklam plateau in Bhutan, beginning a standoff that lasted for 73 days. The trigger was a ...
SUNDERBANS, West Bengal—Thirty-year-old Sita*, originally from a coastal region of Bangladesh, recalls the day Cyclone Aila struck with chilling clarity. Her house made from mud and thatch crumbled from the ...
In Bangladesh, a broad coalition of disaffected university students, civil society activists, and radical Islamists played a critical role in the nationwide protests that pushed longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff reversal benefits some South Asian states, Pakistan hosts a forum to court investment in its ...
