India-Pakistan Conflict
Failure of US diplomatic mission brings ...
India and Pakistan closer to all-out war
By Keith Jones, June 28, 1999
India and Pakistan have moved closed to all-out war, following the apparent failure of a US effort to broker an end to fighting between Indian troops and Pakistani-backed forces in the Kargil-Dass-Bat...
Widespread repression in Bangladesh countryside
By K. Ratnayake, June 24, 1999
The government of Prime Minister Shiek Hasina Wajed in Bangladesh has unleashed a massive military-police crackdown against guerrilla groups and the rural poor. Repression on this scale has not taken ...
India and Pakistan prepare for a wider war
By Keith Jones, June 17, 1999
Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated sharply, with both countries mobilizing troops along their common border outside of the disputed Kashmir region and political and military leaders op...
Kashmir crisis at the boil
Amid preparations for a new military offensive, India puts off talks with Pakistan
By Keith Jones, June 7, 1999
Over the weekend India rejected a Pakistani proposal that its Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz visit New Delhi today, June 7, to discuss the current Kashmir crisis. It also began barring all civilians, in...
Pakistan: new attacks on democratic rights by Sharif's regime
By K. Ratnayake, May 31, 1999
The Nawaz Sharif government of Pakistan is continuing its attacks on the democratic rights of the masses.
Fighting escalates in Kashmir
A dangerous confrontation between India and Pakistan
By Keith Jones and Peter Symonds, May 28, 1999
A major escalation of the conflict between Pakistan and India is looming following the use of fighter aircraft by the Indian Air Force over the last two days to strafe groups of anti-Indian insurgents...
Congress Party power bid fails
India to hold mid-term elections
By Arun Kumar, May 3, 1999
Indian President K. Narayanan dissolved India's parliament last week, setting the stage for a mid-term election. Dissolution of the 12th Lok Sabha came just one day after the Congress party announced ...
BJP-led coalition falls
Congress party launches bid to form India’s new government
By Keith Jones, April 19, 1999
India has been plunged into a new round of political intrigue and horse-trading following Saturday’s resignation of the 13-month-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led coalition government.
Defection from India's ruling coalition threatens BJP-led government
By Arun Kumar, April 10, 1999
The Tamilnad-based AIADMK, the second largest party in India's ruling coalition, has withdrawn its support for the government of Prime Minister Atal Vajpayee. With India's parliament set to resume sit...
Bangladesh government spends on investors rather than hospitals and schools
By Liz Mantell, April 3, 1999
Despite the poverty, instability and hardship facing millions in Bangladesh, intensified in the aftermath of last year's floods, the government is pouring money into financial incentives and subsidies...
Textile workers in India rebel against pay cut
By a correspondent, April 1, 1999
Production at the Well-Knit garment factory, one of the largest employers in the Madras Export Zone (MEPZ), has been paralysed since early last week by a strike/lockout. More than a thousand Well-Knit...
Indian budget lauded by big business
By Deepal Jayasekera, March 26, 1999
Indian big business has for the most part enthusiastically welcomed last month's budget, the second to be presented by the shaky, Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government. "I would rate this bu...
