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Data on the strength of the intermarriage propensity among the ethnic groups teach us how inclusive or diverse connections among these groups are. What's more, such data could be utilized to test sociological and political theories regarding marriages and ethnic conflict management. Exogamy is a significant indication of the nature of relationships among ethnic groups in a society. According to data from the Demographic Survey in Pakistan, Pakistan has a high rate of consanguineous marriages. Marriages between relatives, as reported by ever-married women aged 15-49, show that marriages to first cousins are common; 29% of women marry first cousins on their father’s side, and 21% marry first cousins on their mother’s side. This article provides a brief overview of consanguineous marriages and ethnic conflict management in Pakistan.

CPEC is a part of China’s larger project known as “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) project. OBOR was an initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping who initiated the project in 2013 and has aimed to invest a very huge amount of money in infrastructure development in different countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Pakistan is already going through an economic crisis and having a huge amount of debt to be repaid back to the IMF and World Bank. It is evaluated that Pakistan would be required to reimburse around $3.5 billion every year over a time of 20 years to China because of the CPEC project (Kovrig, 2017). Numerous financial analysts in Pakistan are having serious uncertainty about the Pakistan capacity to repay the debt thus making Pakistan more dependent on China which will subjugate Pakistan and will undermine its sovereignty

Wrapped around in the hindu range of mountains near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, the Kalash ethnic group is fond of homemade wine and whiskey, colorful rituals and festivals, and believe in a religion that holds that God has spirits and messengers who speak through nature. 

Kalash Valley is a small valley which is located in the south of the Hindu Kush range in the northern areas of Pakistan. The Kalash valley shares borders with countries like Afghanistan and Central Asian Republics like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to the west and to the East it shares borders with Gilgit. The People of Kalash valley are called Kalash and they are considered among the non-muslim minority group of Pakistan. 

Both Brazil and India, as developing countries in the Global South, are expected to embrace neoliberal globalization. However, the disadvantages and the downsides of the globalized world are unknown in these countries. In the past few decades, we have seen a very augmented version of globalization known to us as neoliberal globalization. These neoliberal policies adopted by world leaders and nations are based on an unregulated form of the market system (laissez-faire), aiming to liberate individuals and optimize economic production and attenuate the political gap. This paper will examine the downside of neoliberalism and the impact of neoliberal policies on the Global South countries, studying the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), mainly Brazil and India.

In Pakistan, dictators have ruled the country for so long that it gave no time for democracy to find its root in the country. The military has always been very powerful in the country that even when a civilian government is in power the military interfere in the politics of the country and often seizing the power from the civilian governments in the name of political stability, restoring order, holding the state together, and promoting a feeling of nationhood. This has harmed Pakistan more and has been a key factor why the country’s human rights abuses has increased exponentially. 

The study of China in Sri Lanka is not only an account of the Chinese tussle with India to achieve Asian hegemony, but it goes far beyond that. It is about Sri Lanka and its sovereignty that is currently transforming into a Chinese settlement.  The case study of Sri Lanka in terms of China's footprints go far beyond the “string of pearl” theory; which states that China is investing a ring of ports around the Indian Ocean, including in Sri Lanka, Djibouti, Pakistan, and Seychelles, which are intended to outflank China’s nuclear-armed rival for supremacy in Asia: India. Although Chinese colonial endeavors took the form of economic, political and military competition between India and China, it also resulted in a system of exploitation of the Sri Lankan people and has reduced Sri Lanka to a colonial settlement of China.