Contemporary South Asia Test - 2

South Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

East Asia includes China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan. 

General Ayub Khan took over the administration of Pakistan after the adaptation of the constitution.

Muhammad Ayub Khan (14 May 1907 – 19 April 1974), widely known as Ayub Khan was a Pakistani army officer who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969. He previously served as the third Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1951 to 1958.

The political system in Nepal till 2006 was a monarchy. Nepal witnessed an extremely popular movement in April 2006 to restore democracy in the country. Earlier in 1990, Nepal established democracy, and the actual powers went to the elected representatives while the king remained at the name's sake head.

The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 was a thirteen-day-long war fought between India and Pakistan. The war was caused by the Bangladesh independence movement; at the time, Bangladesh was part of Pakistan and known as the province of East Pakistan. This war was a major victory for India and a humiliating defeat for Pakistan.

India and Nepal experience differences between themselves due to the following reasons- 

1. The Indian government expressed displeasure at the warm relationship between Nepal and China. 

2. India is unhappy on the inaction of the Nepal government against anti-Indian elements. 

3. The Maoist movement in Nepal is a security threat to India giving rise to Naxalite groups in various states of India from Bihar in the North to Andhra Pradesh in the South.

During this period, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was supported by the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF), which considered the militant organization as a tool to pressure the government to agree to their demands. TULF leader Appapillai Amirthalingam introduced Prabhakaran to N.S.

Until 1960, they were locked in a fierce argument over the use of the rivers of the Indus basin. India's conflict with Pakistan is also over strategic issues like the control of the Siachen glacier and over acquisition of arms.

The state of Jammu and Kashmir, which had a predominantly Muslim population but a Hindu leader, shared borders with both India and West Pakistan. The argument over which nation would incorporate the state led to the first India-Pakistan War in 1947–48 and ended with UN mediation.

In June 2005, the parliament of the Maldives voted unanimously to introduce a multi-party system. 

In 2002, the king abolished the parliament and dismissed the government, thus ending even the limited democracy that existed in Nepal.