Pakistan, April 19 -- 70 years ago, a historic Asia-Africa summit was convened in Indonesia's Bandung. The principles adopted at the conference - such as respect for all nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity, recognition of the equality of all nations large and small, promotion of mutual interests and cooperation, etc - became known as the Bandung Spirit. Back then, those principles sounded fresh in many ways, as a large part of the world was still under colonialism. In retrospect, the Bandung Conference provided impetus to the de-colonization movement that was emerging across Asia and Africa at the time, and the Bandung Spirit pointed to a new world order envisioned by newly independent countries, one that is on terms more equal...