Elections in Pakistan are over. Though the mandate is regional, as no party has shown a nation wide presence, PML-N has attained a majority in Pakistan’s national assembly after 18 independent candidates joined the party. D. Raghunandan of Newsclick.in discusses the factors governing the present political environment of Pakistan with the senior journalist Seema Mustafa.

Newsclick discusses with Deepak Nayyar, eminent Economist, India's External Credit Balance Crisis. Nayyar says the situation is serious and we have the seeds of a macro-economic crisis in the external sector. The Current Account Deficit is at a level which is unsustainable. Financing it in the short term is no solution. He says unless there is a beginning to address the fundamentals in the external sector, the situation cannot be remedied. Talking about the export sector, Nayyar says, “ We have killed auto parts exports by entering into Free Trade Agreement with ASEAN and there are serious concerns on the FTA with the European Union.”

Who is more civilized ? India or pakistan? The debate is at its peak after the deaths of Sarabjit and Sanaullah but nobody is talking about the conditions of prisons and prisoners' rights. Prabir Purkayastha of Newsclick discusses the ignored reasons behind the deaths of Indian and Pakistani prisoners with two human rights lawyers, N.D. Pancholi and Nandita Haksar.

India is not just the hawks and the anchors on television, but a large motley of sane people holding sober and rational views.

Nirmala Rajasingam, founder of the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum and who is based in the United Kingdom speaks to Newsclick about the challenges faced by the civil society and democracy activists in Sri Lanka. She appeals to the Tamil speaking people in India, the international civil society and the Left in India, to be cognisant of the new challenges faced in post-civil war Sri Lanka, where militarisation, military triumphalism, neoliberalism and Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism have created new discontents apart from the still un-rehabilitated and traumatised Tamil populations - both in the North and the East and in the plantations and the hill country.

Newsclick presents a series of images and videos of the recently concluded 13th World Social Forum's opening ceremony in Tunisia, reminding us of the core WSF slogan; Another World is Possible!

NewsClick presents a series of images from the opening ceremony of the World Social Forum, 2013, Tunisia.

The expose of alleged bribery in the Indian deal to buy Agusta Westland helicopters from the Italian company, Finmeccanica, led to a brief storm of media debates and anguished commentaries, followed by some official probes and actions.

Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University. Akhlas Ahmad and Mohd Basit argue why the once radical Urdu journalism is suffering from delayed reflexes. How lack of resources and dearth of employment opportunities is pushing the language into an abyss. The views expressed here are the author's personal views, and do not necessarily represent the views of Newsclick

With the Supreme Court Judgement on the Enrica Lexie declaring that India had concurrent jurisdiction and could try the two Italian marines, we thought we had come to an end of the jurisdictional saga.