About Yead Mirza

INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST | GLOBAL AFFAIRS WRITER | COMMENTATOR

Yead Mirza is an independent journalist covering Southeast Asia.

As a commentator, he writes on pressing global issues, with a particular focus on East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. His commentary and analysis have been published across a diverse range of media and institutional platforms.

PUBLISHED IN:

Think Tank & Institutional Publications

  • Yale Global Online
  • Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement (NIICE Nepal)
  • The Young Diplomats
  • The New Federalist / Le Taurillon

Media Outlets

  • Eurasia Review
  • International Policy Digest
  • Foreign Policy News
  • South Asia Journal
  • The Nigerian Voice
  • Asia Pacific Newslog
  • Modern Diplomacy
  • Qolumnist
  • OpEd Column Journal (OCJ)
  • The Geopolitics
  • CounterCurrents
  • The New Age newspaper
  • Daily Times newspaper
  • Kashmir Reader newspaper
  • Daily Outlook Afghanistan
  • Washington Politics Blog
  • International News Service (INS)

Editorial Syndication & Distribution Networks

  • OpEd Column Syndication (OCS)

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Trump has no option but to resume Afghan peace talks soon

This article was originally published on  Oped Column Syndication .   By:      Yead Mirza  In early-September, the US President Donald Trump called-off the peace negotiations with the Taliban after they had carried-out a suicide car bomb attack that took several lives in Kabul, including a US soldier. The decision to call-off the negotiations came at a time when some sort of agreement was about to be reached between the USA and the Taliban. This decision had also ended the possibility of a meeting among Trump, the Taliban and Afghan president Ashraf Ghani at the Camp David presidential retreat. However, the other stakeholders to the conflict, including the Afghans across community/tribal lines, shouldn’t worry much about the call-off decision. This is because, this was not a policy decision, but a temporary move for Trump’s domestic political gain and for earning leverages at the negotiation table from the other stakeholders to the confl...
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Growing criticism of India's Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)

 By:      Yead Mirza  Faced with a wave of criticism from political corners and civil society members for the alleged erroneous and malicious use of the Electronic Voting Machines, India’s Election Commission had introduced the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail. A recent Via News Agency report pointed out a major feature of the Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). The report suggests that unlike how Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) are used in other countries, this VVPAT mechanism produces of a paper slip which bears the name and symbol of the candidate for whom the elector has voted. The officially stated intention of the Election Commission behind introducing the VVPAT mechanism was to boost the transparency of the electronic voting process. In 2004, EVMs were used nation-wide in India. Later, the technology was used in all assembly polls and the general elections in 2009. It is worth noting that the last Indian parliamentary election in 2...
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Russia's growing clout in the Pacific

 By:      Yead Mirza  Soviet Union had good military and economic relations with the Asia Pacific’s regional countries. The demise of the Soviet Union had significantly hampered the relations between Russian Federation, which is deemed to be the successor to Soviet Union, and Asia Pacific’s countries. However, Russia’s growing sale of weapons and other advanced military technology to a number of Asia-Pacific countries for the last one decade reflects Moscow’s desperation to re-establish the lost military relations with the Asia Pacific countries. Russia had successfully managed to keep close military relations with China and India, both of which have been engaged in a rivalry since late-1950s. Moreover, Russia is increasingly building good relations with many South Asian and Southeast Asian countries, including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand. Furthermore, Russia is on a spree of building certa...
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