South Asia Focus (Weekly Program) – Dec 17, 2017

This episode focuses on India, where the 15th Russia, India, and China (RIC) Foreign Ministerial trilateral meeting was held in New Delhi and besides discussing the geopolitical and economic ties the grouping also held bilateral meetings with each other. In Pakistan, the human rights violations are on the rise, to mark the occasion of International Human Rights Day the Baloch and Sindhi Activists in Europe and the UK held demonstrations to expose Pakistan’s cruel face. In Nepal, politics is undergoing a seismic shift, after the moderate left CPN- UML and Maoist center has emerged top winners after the completion of the first-past-the-post counting of both federal and the provincial elections and is certain to form the government. Sri Lanka’s debt-ridden government officially handed over the strategic Hambantota port to China for a term of 99 years, the port near the main shipping route from Asia to Europe is expected to play a key role in China’s Belt and Road Initiative. The authorities in Afghanistan organized a trade fair in Kabul to inject some momentum into the local manufacturing sector amid a rise in insurgent attacks in the country. In India, with the passage of time, people have changed to different modes of transportation- varying from bullock carts to modern cars; many have a passion to preserve those old and classic cars for the coming generations to remember.

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