Himalayan Frontier by Pramod Jaiswal
Pramod Jaiswal
Senior Fellow, China Research Programme (CRP)
Pramod Jaiswal’s primary focus is on insurgencies, border management, terrorism, illegal migration...
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Nepal: Challenges to Constitution-Making
Pramod Jaiswal · 05 May, 2014 · 4422
The Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M), the single largest party from the first Constituent Assembly (CA) election, is in a dilemma after suffering a setback in the second CA election. The party seems to have lost direction ...
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Nepal's Restful Prime Minister
Pramod Jaiswal · 07 Apr, 2014 · 4382
It has been over two months since Sushil Koirala took office as the Prime Minister’s of Nepal. In last two months, Koirala promoted six joint secretaries to secretaries and appointed Damodar Prasad Sharma as the new Chief Justice of ...
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Chinese Inroads to Nepal
Pramod Jaiswal · 03 Mar, 2014 · 4319
Over the recent months, China, in an attempt to strengthen its relations with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), has been taking efforts to build a close-knit strategic alliance with Nepal. At a meeting with a v ...
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Constituent Assembly-II: Rifts Emerging
Pramod Jaiswal · 03 Feb, 2014 · 4288
In the words of Aristotle, “Well begun is half done.” However, the second Constituent Assembly (CA) of Nepal is getting hiccups right from the beginning. The political parties do not seem to have learned much from the past. Th ...
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Nepal: The Crisis over Proportional Representation and the RPP Divide
Pramod Jaiswal · 06 Jan, 2014 · 4236
Last year (2013) was lucky for the Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N) led by Kamal Thapa as they emerged as the fourth largest party in the second Constituent Assembly (CA-II). But in 2014, the party seems to be sailing throug ...