New Delhi: The SAARC countries have a zero sum policy towards each other and it is high time the nations changed the status quo to a win win policy for all, said Mohammad Abdali, the Ambassador of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to India. The Ambassador was speaking at the SAU Distinguished Lecture series in the South Asian University, …
– Md. Shariful Islam South Asia as a region is fairly late to embrace the notion of regional economic integration which was highlighted in the later half of the 1980s. Notably, it took almost a decade after the establishment of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1985 to promote regional economic integration …
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New Delhi: South Asia has a tremendous potential in its common future and the countries in this region must work together towards its realization, former Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh said. In spite of the robust economic growth achieved by individual countries in South Asia, as well as by the region as …
The Afghan students in South Asian University celebrated the New Year with gaiety and wished for peace and prosperity in their country. As per the Persian calendar, Nowruz marks the onset of spring season and New Year that is celebrated on March 21 every year. This festival is celebrated in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Pakistanand Kurdish region …
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A.Z.M. Arman Habib Clean water is essential to human growth, economic growth for a country and sustainability of that country. Without water, life could not exist; it is one of life’s most fundamental basic needs. About 1.1 billion people half the developing world has no access to any type of improved drinking source of water. …