‘My children did not attack Iran’: 2bn South Asians suffer from distant war
- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are together home to nearly two billion people, about 23 percent of the world’s population.
- Even before the war on Iran, the region depended heavily on imported energy, much of it from Gulf countries.
- But the extent and nature of exposure of different South Asian countries to Gulf supplies and the Strait of Hormuz varied significantly.
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- India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are together home to nearly two billion people, about 23 percent of the world’s population.
- Even before the war on Iran, the region depended heavily on imported energy, much of it from Gulf countries.
- But the extent and nature of exposure of different South Asian countries to Gulf supplies and the Strait of Hormuz varied significantly.
Sources: Al Jazeera