When terrorists trump statesmen
Tanvir Ahmad Khan; 7/8/08
If you join the dots from Amu Daryya, the river that separates Afghanistan from Central Asia, to Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, you mark out a huge swathe of Asia where more than a billion people live in the midst of immense natural resources. Between the Himalayas and the mighty Indian Ocean that carries some of the most crucial sea lanes of global economy on the other, some of the greatest civilisations of human history flourished. The nation states that claim that inheritance today take as much pride in their ancient wisdom as in the strides made by them in modern sciences and technology. All this should make for a region of peace, prosperity and effortless cooperation. But these are exactly the attributes that their contemporary history lacks.
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