South Asia

Definitions

proper n. All the countries of the Indian subcontinent (principally India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and the Indian Ocean (principally Sri Lanka, Maldives)

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Development assistance to South Asia will increase to $124. 3million in 2006-07, reflecting a significant increase in ODA to Pakistan to $17million.

Media Release from the Minister for Foreign Affairs: A More Effective Aid Programme
In Canberra, Mr McConville worked as Executive Officer in South Asia and

Diplomatic Appointment: High Commissioner to Mauritius
Assistant Secretary, Mainland South-East Asia and South Asia Branch

Diplomatic Appointment - Ambassador to Sri Lanka: The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs
On March 27, as the Riedel review debuted publicly, Obama announced that the goal of his campaign in South Asia was “to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future.”

The Longest War
The nuclear tests in South Asia in 1998 struck at the international norm against proliferation, although we should be clear that actions by non-parties cannot be seen as a failing of the treaty itself.

Media gateway - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Thus, on issues necessarily involving the State Departmentthe South Asia crisis, the Middle EastRogers and his people successfully resisted presidential authority.

In the Shadow of the Oval Office
Tapped to do that review was Bruce Riedel, a three-decade veteran of the CIA who had played a critical role in helping to formulate South Asia policy in the Clinton administration.

The Longest War