'South-Asian spring' equally alarming

From the virtual coup de'tat that deposed Maldives' first democratically-elected president to the undermining of an elected but toothless government in Pakistan by its Supreme Court, South Asia is witnessing a backsliding on democratic advances, just as the democratic awakening triggered by the "Arab Spring" movements has brought not democratic empowerment but more human-rights abuses in much of the Arab world. 

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