This essay was written for an essay competition organised by Pakistan council for Research in Water Resources. It … explains the current water scenario and prediction about future condition. …

The paper presents an alternative narrative to the what led to conflict in the once peaceful Swat Valley in Pakistan …. The widely discussed view has been that Talibanization is what led to the conflict but this paper argues that it was in … fact bad governance over a period of time that led to this conflict by creating an environment where a governance vacuum …

Scholars and policymakers have devoted much attention to issues of third party intervention in conflict. The present … paper considers a conflict that draws two countervailing outside interveners. As in the realist perspective, the outside … escalatory conflict intervention. The paper also studies conditions required for the United Nations, or some such supra …

the present article attempts to analyze the need for sustainable ground water management in India. The article also …Groundwater constitutes about 89% of the total fresh water resources in the planet. But in recent years, due to over … exploitation of ground water and erratic nature of monsoon, there has been depletion of ground water across the world. Depletion of …

children under five years of age in India. Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and propensity-based weighted regression, we …

, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, covering the period from 1980 to 2003. The analysis is done with the help of tables … are integrated with major markets, that is, of USA, UK, and Japan. There is clear evidence that the markets in India and … Pakistan are affected by the major as well as the regional markets in the long run. In the short run, however, the markets …

in the South Asian countries such as Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. For the efficiency analysis we used non parametric … eight MFIs from Pakistan, six MFIs from Bangladesh and five MFIs from India are at the efficient frontier under variable … returns to scale. The technical efficiency figures for Pakistan, Bangladesh and India are 0.395, 0.087, and 0.28, respectively …

This paper examines weak form efficiency in the stock markets of India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh; and the …