https://www.scmp.com/rss/506424/feed Shyam Tekwani is a professor at the Daniel K Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, where he specialises in political violence, terrorism and counterterrorism, security dynamics of South Asia, and the role of media in security. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the heads of several South Asian countries pledged to cooperate through last year on regional security, with counterterrorism efforts at the top of their agenda. The move was made as the effects of three attacks in the region over the past decade continued to resonate: the 2014 attack on an army school in Peshawar by the Pakistani Taliban that killed 135 schoolchildren, the 2016 storming of an upscale bakery in Dhaka by a local militant group, and Sri... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3116940/war-terror-and-isis-south-asia-fighting-itself?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3116940/war-terror-and-isis-south-asia-fighting-itself?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Jan 2021 02:00:15 +0000 Like most countries in a pandemic year, India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has had an unusual year. Book-ended by two leaderless mass movements – the first led mostly by women and students, the second by farmers – India 2020 is a sombre montage of a country in search of itself. More than the prime minister’s made-for-television responses to Covid-19 or the inept handling of the economy, it will be remembered as the year when China challenged India’s primacy in the region by helping itself... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3114748/india-enters-2021-narendra-modis-hindutva-project-roll?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3114748/india-enters-2021-narendra-modis-hindutva-project-roll?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 21 Dec 2020 04:00:17 +0000 Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent call for enduring peace in Afghanistan, even if unoriginal, is laudatory in the prescriptions he offers. Chief among them being Pakistan’s role as honourable facilitator and the caution against early international withdrawal. But no peacemaker’s road map can be durable or earnest when it is not inclusive, nor when it applies different norms to the principles of peace and stability at home and abroad. Neither can it succeed when the mediating nation... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3104817/pakistan-can-help-win-peace-afghanistan-only-once-its-stable-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3104817/pakistan-can-help-win-peace-afghanistan-only-once-its-stable-and?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2020 07:00:16 +0000 The current turbulence on the Indian subcontinent appears unprecedented in its enormity since the partition of India in 1947. While the ongoing China-India altercation occupies the attention of the strategic community, events transpiring across South Asia since the arrival of Covid-19 are reshaping the already fractious security environment of a subregion often touted as the world’s most dangerous. China’s steadily growing and assertive involvement in the destinies of the eight countries that... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3091070/indias-bullying-its-neighbours-boosted-china-now-it-needs-build?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3091070/indias-bullying-its-neighbours-boosted-china-now-it-needs-build?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:00:31 +0000