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The Karachi Agreement of 1949 is often misunderstood as a political settlement on Kashmir. In reality, it was a technical military arrangement designed to stabilize a fragile ceasefire by mapping a supervised line on the ground. Understanding its limited purpose is key to explaining how the conflict shifted from open warfare to managed confrontation, without resolution.

When Stand News shut down in 2021, arrests and raids dominated headlines. Less noticed was what vanished next: years of reporting erased from public access. The loss of its archive reshaped journalism in Hong Kong, thinning the historical record and narrowing space for accountability, an absence that still matters today.

Despite announcing February 12, 2026, as its next election date, Bangladesh has failed to restore public confidence. Ongoing unrest, contested reforms, questions over the Election Commission’s neutrality, and the exclusion of major political actors reveal that legitimacy depends not on dates, but on trust, inclusion, and credible institutions.

Bangladesh’s reconstituted Election Commission was presented as a reset after Sheikh Hasina’s ouster. Six months on, critics say it has become an extension of interim power—delaying elections, echoing government positions, and excluding the Awami League, raising serious questions about independence, legitimacy, and the future of democratic rule.

COVID-19 became a global disaster not just because a virus emerged, but because China’s political system criminalized early warning. In Wuhan, doctors were silenced, data was controlled, and truth required permission. This was not chaos, it was governance by design, and its consequences spread worldwide.

As Bangladesh navigates political uncertainty, claims of “neutral leadership” face a critical test. This article examines how unresolved labor, financial, and regulatory cases surrounding Muhammad Yunus complicate assertions of moral authority, highlighting why legal clarity, not global reputation, ultimately determines credibility in democratic governance.

The Tk 252 crore welfare fund dispute has emerged as Bangladesh’s clearest accountability test. At its core is not ideology or reputation, but workers’ money, deducted from wages and allegedly not returned. For affected families, justice is measured not in narratives, but in restitution.

Microcredit promised empowerment in rural Bangladesh but often delivered discipline through debt. Rigid repayments, social pressure, and survival borrowing reshaped household power, intensified stress, and produced regional spillovers, revealing how development finance can enforce control rather than create opportunity.

Aksai Chin, a desolate plateau between India and China, remains one of Asia’s most contested frontiers. Born from unresolved colonial boundaries, the region became the flashpoint of the 1962 war and continues to shape the geopolitics of the Himalayas. Decades later, military standoffs, infrastructure races, and competing territorial claims reveal that the conflict over Aksai Chin is far from over; it's an unfinished war still defining India-China relations.

Mass protests in Pakistan-Occupied Jammu & Kashmir (POJK) highlight growing resistance against Islamabad’s governance. Once a hub for Pakistan’s Kashmir strategy, POJK is now rebelling over political exclusion, economic marginalisation, and resource exploitation. Crackdowns have deepened local anger, exposing Pakistan’s governance crisis and weakening its Kashmir narrative, with far-reaching implications for South Asia’s stability.

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