Politics

As 2011 began, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari looked politically finished — a shaky coalition, a power crisis, and the army watching. A look back.

In October 2010, separatist leader Geelani and author Arundhati Roy shared a stage in Delhi demanding 'azadi' for Kashmir — and ignited a national firestorm.

Assange's lawyer told Al Jazeera a secret US grand jury had been empaneled in Virginia, even as a financial blockade and a Swedish warrant closed in.

Pakistan's own army website listed an ISI operative who died in a Delhi hospital in 2007 - an accidental admission Islamabad never acknowledged.

New leaks from the Niira Radia wiretaps deepened India's 2G scandal and forced a reckoning over journalists acting as power brokers.

Cablegate in 200 seconds: what the 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables actually revealed about Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Berlusconi.

In December 2010, India's ambassador to the US Meera Shankar was pulled from an airport line in Mississippi and patted down over her sari.

In December 2010, Pakistani papers ran fake WikiLeaks cables smearing India's military — until the Guardian's database search found nothing.

Hacker, activist, fugitive: at 39, Julian Assange is wanted by Sweden and hunted by governments. A profile of the man behind WikiLeaks.

The Radia tapes ensnared politicians, tycoons, and journalists. Yet the fury fixed on the women. On the gendered script of the 2010 tapes scandal.

Some called for Hillary Clinton to resign over the WikiLeaks cables. On why the case was structural, the cause was elsewhere, and she stayed.

Ratan Tata moved the Supreme Court claiming the leaked Niira Radia tapes violated his right to privacy. On the collision of public interest and private

Velma Hart told Obama at a town hall she was ‘exhausted’ defending him. Months later she lost her job. On what happened — and what didn’t get proven.

How did a 22-year-old analyst exfiltrate hundreds of thousands of classified files? On the institutional failures — physical, procedural, human — behind the

Bradley Manning, 23, went from Army intelligence analyst in Iraq to the prime suspect behind the biggest leak in U.S. military history.

2G spectrum, the Commonwealth Games, Adarsh, the Radia tapes, Karnataka mining, UP foodgrain, the IPL franchise row — on the scandals defining India in late

Nitish Kumar's JD(U)-BJP alliance swept Bihar 2010 with 206 of 243 seats — a landslide for development politics that decimated Lalu's RJD and Congress.

Corruption in India is not a moral failing but an incentive problem: discretionary power, underpaid bureaucracy, and campaign finance.

Pakistani journalist Jawed Naqvi's critique of Indian corruption provoked outrage — and uncomfortable recognition. On the messenger, the message, and 2010's

In November 2010 Iran's parliament revealed it had planned to impeach President Ahmadinejad — and was stopped only by the Supreme Leader.