Nepal Protests Expose Depth of Public Anger – Foreign Policy

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The most prominent events this week: Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli resigns in the middle Anti -government deadly protestsAnd it is an American company that cools a deal with Pakistan Explore critical mineralsAnd The links of India and the United States Another barrier hit.

The overthrow of the Prime Minister’s protests in Nepal

The Prime Minister in Nepal resigned on Tuesday after 19 people were killed and hundreds of others were wounded a day before the public protests to combat the government. In Kathmandu, the capital tried to demonstrators violate the parliament building. The police initially responded to the water and tear gas guns, but opened fire against the demonstrators.

The situation in Nepal is still unstable: The demonstrators set fire to the parliament building alongside the homes of politicians, including Oli. The army announced on Tuesday night local time that it would deploy forces in the streets.

Monday is the bloody days of political protests in Nepal since the 2006 Democratic Movement. These demonstrations eventually resulted in the abolition of ownership and Nepal turned into a democratic republic in 2008.

The operator of the current protests was Nepal’s decision last week to close the social media platforms that failed to adhere to government registration requirements, including Facebook, X and YouTube. A campaign to call on social media was launched last week – as the Nebu Kid movement – to the distinguished political elite children and called for protests on Monday.

But as this campaign indicates, the demonstrations revolve around more than social media. For years, the Nepalese citizens have populated against the state of their country’s policy, and ended the regime as corrupt and unable to address the long-term general concerns-especially economic stress. The Nepal Tour of Nepal’s coalition policy has resulted in 14 different governments since 2008.

This deep general lack of confidence appeared during the major protests earlier this year, which called for the restoration of ownership. Instead of real support for royal rule, these protests seemed to indicate how anger of people in a supposed democratic system that, from their point of view, ignores the needs of the masses.

On this background, it is not surprising that the demonstrators refuse the government’s claim that registration of social media platforms will make it easy to track harmful content via the Internet, for fear that it is an excuse to suppress online speech. Technology companies said they are not willing to register because of the proposed legislation that they say may harm online rights and Nepal’s digital economy.

The demonstrations for this week, which many observers called the General G protests, shed light on the impact of youth activity in an area where young people are demographic dominate, but sometimes they struggle to confirm the political agency.

The uprising against Prime Minister Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina last year was an exciting achievement of the youth policy. Students led a mass movement and the overthrow of a long leader; Since then, many protest leaders have assumed high positions in the interim government. Al -Shabab also played a major role in the mass protests that overthrew President Gotabaya Rajapaxa in 2022.

Continuous protests are an invitation to wake up fixed for Nepalese politicians; I paid the first price. The scale and intensity of the movement is striking, and the anger increased only with the high number of deaths. Recovery from demonstrators may take place by the prolongation of OLI, but the political class in Nepal is no longer able to look far away.

What we are following

The United States in the United States deals with Pakistan. On Monday, the American embassy in Islamabad announced a memorandum of understanding between American strategic minerals, which produce and recycle critical minerals, and the Pakistani Border Business Organization, a branch of the army that focuses on engineering projects.

In Trump’s second state, critical metals emerged as a major priority for the United States’ relations. Islamabad has been exposed to containing “trillion dollars” of mineral deposits, and senior US officials attended a forum to invest in decisive minerals in the capital in April. Reaching these minerals will be difficult: Most Pakistan deposits are in the western regions of the country, where security continues to be a problem.

The ethnic rebels in Balochistan Province have long fought against the exploitation of local resources by the Pakistani state and foreign actors. However, the memorandum of understanding indicates preparedness by the United States and private companies to swallow risk.

One of the signs to be monitored is the work of the Canadian Mining Company for Barrrick Mining Corporation (formerly called Barrrick Gold), which plans to build a huge copper and gold mine in Balochistan. To this point, I got $ 6 billion loan pledges, including a modern one of the Asian Development Bank.

Unforgettable for the United States crisis India. It was a few other difficult days for the relationship of the United States and India, although it appeared for a moment in which wealth may change. US President Donald Trump at the White House said on Friday that India and the United States “have a special relationship,” referring to his friendship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

During the weekend, Moody posted on X, noting that the two countries “have a very positive and positive partnership.” However, the friendly stock exchange did not do much to change the dynamics that lead the crisis – in particular, an additional American tariff imposed on India because of its imports of Russian oil.

New Delhi continues to point out that she wants to end the dilemma. Jason Miller, a former Trump’s leading assistant who has now become pressure groups for the Indian government, has recently met Trump. The armies held a joint exercise in Alaska last week, and diplomats and senior security officials conducted an online dialogue at the end of August.

Afghanistan, Pakistan’s sphere of disasters. Rescuers are still facing challenges after an earthquake of 6.0 in eastern Afghanistan struck on August 31, killing more than 2,200 people. Additional tremors hit the area in recent days, including an earthquake of 5.6 on Thursday.

Many survivors were hesitant to return to their villages, for fear of landslides. The Taliban government, which has called for more international assistance, is also an obstacle: its ban on women working as human workers and other retrospective policies holding efforts to provide assistance to women. On Monday, the World Health Organization asked the Taliban to lift the temporary ban.

Meanwhile, Pakistan is struggling with huge floods for weeks. In recent days, Flash Floods has struck the eastern Punjab province, the country’s most populated area, which borders the federal capital. Al -Jazeera said this week that up to half a million people are trapped in villages in the province. The continued heavy rains this week is the complex of rescue efforts.

So far, 4 million floods have been affected throughout Pakistan. Large crop losses – Bonjab are a major Pakistani bread basket – raised concerns about economic damage a few months after the macroeconomic confirmation. India has also witnessed significant damage, especially in the case of Punjab, with hundreds of thousands of acres of crops destroyed.

Under the radar

Mia Gulam Barwar, a senior official with the Bangladesh group party, Mia Golaam Barwar, issued a statement on Monday calling on government elementary schools to stop recruiting music and dance teachers, rather than focusing on bringing more religious trainers to teach Islamic and moral education. Parawar said that students “became separate from their history and religious and cultural heritage.”

The Islamic Group is the largest Islamic party in Bangladesh, and will be a major player in the national elections to be held in February. In this sense, Parwar’s statement can be read as part of the campaign stadium. The Islamic group is unlikely to win; The National Party, Bangladesh is very preferred.

However, politics highlights a major political change in Bangladesh since the fall of Hasinah last year: the increasing political area of ​​religious actors such as the Islamic Group-the Supreme Court lifted a ban for a decade of the party in June-as well as some Islamic extremists.

Bangladesh is proud to be a moderate Islamic state, but the recent empowerment of conservative religious actors raised questions about a possible transformation.

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