report in The Frontier Post, Nov 20, 2023KABUL : According to reports, so far, approximately 450,000 Afghan migrants have voluntarily returned to the country from Iran to address the issue of illegal immigration. Tasnim news agency, citing Javad Khani, the official in charge of managing illegal migrants at the National Organization for Migration, has reported that there is a possibility of approximately four million illegal migrants being present in the country. According to this Iranian…
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By Aftab Ahmed & Asim Yasin in The News, Nov 15, 2023MITHI: As Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif headed to Balochistan, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Tuesday advised the three-time prime minister to keep his focus on Lahore and address the problems his party faced in the Punjab instead. “I would suggest Mian Sahib to stay in Lahore and focus on its problems,” said the PPP chairman during a…
report in The Express Tribune, Sept 23, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar faced a backlash on social media following his address at the US think-tank Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York, likening Pakistan’s relationship with China to that of the United States with Israel. “Pakistan enjoys a strategic relationship with China. We are very clear that there are people who would qualify Pakistan as ‘China’s Israel’. It is probably more a…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, August 22nd, 2023PESHAWAR: With intelligence reports claiming that militants flee to Afghanistan after carrying out activities in Pakistan, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa counter-terrorism department has said Islamabad and Kabul are in contact with each other to address the issue. “There is a state-to-state contact [between Pakistan and Afghanistan] to work out a solution [to escape of militants to Afghanistan]. Very serious negotiations are under way,” additional inspector-general and head of the…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, July 25, 2023Sri Lanka will import one million eggs per day from five selected chicken farms in Tamil Nadu, India to be sold through the state–run retail chain called ‘Lanka SATHOSA’ primarily in the Western Province to address the shortage, an official said. Chairman of State Engineering Corporation Asiri Walisundara told Daily Mirror that a team of officials from the Department of Animal Production and Health visited these farms…
report in President Media Division (PMD), July 18, 2023During a discussion with Tamil Parliamentarians representing the North and East today (18), President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that he has already put forth a comprehensive proposal to address the problems faced by the people in those regions and it is up to the Tamil Parliamentarians whether to take it forward or not. Responding to Member of Parliament Mr. M A Sumanthiran’s statement regarding former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s…
Report in The Island, Jan 16, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe during his address at the National Thai Pongal Festival held at the Jaffna Durga Hall on Sunday (15) said that the Social Justice Commission will be established in order to build a country where everyone can live in harmony, by solving the problems of the people belonging to all sections of the population and that the government expects to fully implement the 13th Amendment to the…