Former King Gyanendra Shah’s supporters see him as a ray of hope. They believe he can bring back political stability to the country, which has remained a distant dream for 17 years.
BIMSTEC is an institutional framework for cooperation among 7 countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand — that surround the Bay of Bengal.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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