Excerpt from Developments in the "Other" South Asia; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka: Hearing and Markups on H. Con. Res. 278 and H. Con. Res. 216 Before the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, August 11, 1994 As we are calling around for a quorum we will change the order of business today to mark up two resolutions, a sufficient number of members having arrived, and we will proceed presently with our hearing. The Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific meets today to take look at what could be called the other South Asia, those portions of the Indian subcontinent other than India and Pakistan, the two South Asian countries that most frequently draw our attention. Specifically, we will focus this morning on recent developments in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. What besides their geographical location do these countries have in common? Three of the four are struggling, with various degrees of success, to institutionalize democratic principles amidst societies where assassination and street violence are still a frequent occur rence. The fourth of our four countries, Afganistan, is enmeshed in a bloody civil war and is only now beginning the difficult process of establishing the principles and practices of democracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.