Good mornin’, here’s your morning linkage…
Mali
- Pascal Fletcher provides a good analysis of the challenges ahead for the French-led intervention in Mali.
- Angelique Chrisafis also examines the domestic stakes and neo-colonial implications of Mr. Hollande’s War.
Saudi Arabia
- The Saudi government beheaded a maid, who was a minor employed for two weeks when a child in her care died. She was tried without legal representation. Executing a minor is a violation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Saudi Arabia is a signatory. Forty-five other maids are on death row, some for charges including witchcraft and sorcery.
Afghanistan
- Kate Clark at AAN parses the language of the latest Obama-Karzai meeting, particularly for what it doesn’t say about democracy and women’s rights.
Pakistan
- Tensions continue in Kashmir between India and Pakistan along the Line of Control.
- Meanwhile, Governor’s rule has been imposed in Balochistan after a terrorist attack killed at least 92 in Quetta. Here’s a timeline of Hazara killings in Balochistan. (h/t Ahsan Butt)
Webistan
Vikash is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY. His main areas of academic interest are (post-) globalization, economic development, and economic freedom, with a regional focus on South Asia
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