Hemoglobin D a hemoglobin variant occurs in a group of asianpopulation particularly from india, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq. In india, it is mainly reported in north western states of Haryana, PunJab and Gujarat. In heterozygous form, Hb D disease is mild and causes subclinical jaundice. In heterozygous form, it can cause severe hemolytic anemia. Here we present a similar case of Hb D with hemolytic j...

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BACKGROUND Head and neck cancer constitutes a substantial portion of the burden of disease in South Asia, and there is an undersupply of surgical capacity in this region. The purpose of this study was to estimate the economic welfare losses due to head and neck cancer in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh in 2010. METHODS We used publicly available estimates of head and neck cancer morbidity and...

There are many different lenses through which to view strategic stability in today’s world. Defining strategic very broadly to encompass nuclear, missile defenses, space, global strike, and cyber capabilities, these lenses include: the legacy of Cold War strategic stability; stability in the central bilateral strategic relationships between the United States and Russia and the United States and...

Gregory Koblentz is a Junior Fellow with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. The missile competition in South Asia is on the verge of a new and dangerous phase that threatens to disrupt the delicate strategic balance of the subcontinent. India and Pakistan already have stockpiles of ballistic missiles, along with the associ...

South Asia is a unique geopolitical region which covers 3.4% of the world’s surface area and supports 25% of the world’s population (1.749 billion). It hosts the second (India), sixth (Pakistan) and the eighth (Bangladesh) most populous countries in the world. The South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was established in 1985 and currently has eight Member States. SAARC account...

The paper examines the causal relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth for selected Asian economies covering the period from 1981-2008. The study has been done for China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Using Granger-causality, it has been observed that for the countries like China, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,...