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Microsoft Cares About Your Privacy Reopen Strait of Hormuz by reframing Iran's tolls as reconstruction
Ram Manikkalingam The Strait of Hormuz is usually described as a chokepoint. Today, it is more than that. It is the hinge point between war and peace in the Gulf. Roughly a fifth of the world's oil and gas trade passes through this narrow waterway. When it was secure, the global economy barely noticed it. As soon as it was threatened,prices jumped, shipping costs rose and military tensions spread beyond the region. Today, the issue is even larger than economics.
Sri Lanka debt deal shows creditors can set aside geopolitical rivalries for debt-distressed nations
2 hours ago The share of EVs in total car sales globally jumped from 9% in 2021 to 14% in 2022, more than 10 times their share in 2017, according to the International Energy Agency’s new EV report, released today. The IEA’s “Global EV Outlook 2023” reports that electric car sales grew, despite a shrinking …
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Born: 30 June (or 20 December) 1931, Lyallpur; Passed on: 13 February 2023, Karachi By Beena Sarwar The great Zia Mohyeddin was already a legend when I first interacted with him as an adult in the mid-1990s. He had recently moved to Lahore where I then lived at Lakshmi Mansion at Regal Chowk. I was working on the launch of weekly The News on Friday, a brainchild of my editor the multi-talented Imran Aslam who revered Zia sahib.
Sri Lanka at 100
by Ram Manikkalingam Sri Lanka’s future is hanging in the balance as we turn 75. On its 75th birthday Sri Lanka is divided. There is a stand-off between the people and the political institutions. The people reject Parliament and the President. And Parliament and the President fear the people. This standoff cannot last indefinitely. It will lead to authoritarianism, anarchy or reform.
The politics of punishing war crimes in Sri Lanka
Prioritising the punishment of war criminals in Sri Lanka over other measures to achieve reconciliation risks re-empowering the extremists and undermining the government’s genuine reform efforts. Last week the national anthem was sung in Tamil for the first time at the official celebration of Sri Lanka’s independence day.
The politics of punishing war crimes in Sri Lanka
Last week the national anthem was sung in Tamil for the first time at the official celebration of Sri Lanka’s independence day. Six years ago the government’s own regional director for education in the Tamil north, Markandu Sivalingam, was assassinated by “unidentified” gunmen for disagreeing with then President Rajapaksa’s directive to ban the singing of the national anthem in Tamil at official functions.
The go-between: how fear of failure has helped me persuade men with guns to make peace in the midst of conflict
Four years ago, I was in a hideout of the Basque separatist group Eta in southern France, surrounded by explosives, revolvers, grenades and rocket launchers. I was present as the chief of the commission to verify a ceasefire and begin the group’s disarmament. It followed more than three years of difficult discussions with Eta leaders, Basque politicians and Basque civil society. We convinced Eta’s leaders that clinging to weapons was going to help neither themselves nor the Basque people.
To change torture practices, we must change the entire system
The question of whether or not to engage with perpetrators of human rights violations is an extremely tricky one. In my own recent experience of trying to work with police and military personnel in Nepal and Sri Lanka, two countries where state officials routinely use torture and violence, I found myself deeply conflicted. Coming from a background of “name and shame” human rights advocacy, this project was difficult for me and my team.
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