By Maqbool Malik ISLAMABAD – High command of the ruling PPP is in a fix in finding a suitable female candidate for appointment as first governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, sources informed TheNation on Monday. The sources disclosed that PPP leadership has interviewed a few women members of the newly elected Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly but none of them could qualify the set out criteria for the gubernatorial slot. The sources were of the view that this has forced…
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DHAKA, Jan 4: All the Islamic political parties of Bangladesh should drop the name of Islam from their name and should stop using religion during campaigning, Law Minister Ahmad Shafique said on Monday. He said this following a Supreme Court ruling on Sunday, which upheld a 2005 ruling by the high court throwing out the fifth amendment of the constitution, which had allowed religion-based politics to flourish in the country since the late 1970s. “All…