Second Freedom South Asian Challenge 2005-2025

The objective of this report is to examine the challenges facing South Asia in the next 20 years at a time when the region is likely to be influenced by global developments as well as internal dynamics. The report studies the various economic, social, political, security sectors in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal and comes up with future projections for each of these individual nations as well as envisages the common reality for the region. The report demonstrates the factors likely to affect the region from 2005-2025 and the impact that it is likely to have on the region. It states that South Asia will encounter a world where the basic concepts of sovereignty of state, separation of religion and polity, and the unity of super-force and super-power will be challenged, and the world will see a shift from the West to the East. It also studies the impact of changes in geopolitics in the neighboring region, the impact of wildcards such as path breaking technological innovation and development or the use of a nuclear weapon by a state or non-state actor. A must read for anyone interested in the South Asian phenomenon in the new century.

• Muhammad Yusuf explores a study that crystal gazes into the future of South Asia
  The Gulf Today, Sept. 8, 2005
• BRIEF CASE: A Sorry State
  The Times of India, Sept. 6, 2005
• Future of South Asia and Second Freedom: An eyewitness account of the launching ceremony of a book by Strategic Foresight Group
  Dastak, August, 2005
• ‘Pak, Nepal have self-serving powers’
  The Times of India, August 29, 2005
• Heavy outlay forecast for Siachin fighting
  The News International, August 27, 2005
• Siachen bleeding both India and Pakistan
  Webindia123.com, August 27, 2005
• Pak, Nepal always enriched themselves under "His Military, His Majesty": SFG
  Webindia123.com, August 27, 2005
• South-Asia - In the next twenty years - a perspective
  Akhbar-e-Jehan, August 8 - 14, 2005
• 'Nepal Army can't contain insurgency'
  The Asian Age, August 8, 2005

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