by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Dec 8th, 2023• CEC says printing, delivery of final electoral rolls completed• Judiciary refuses to spare officers for poll duty• DROs, ROs to be selected soon from among district administration officials ISLAMABAD: With the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) all set to unveil schedule for the Feb 8 polls next week, Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja on Thursday said printing and delivery of final electoral rolls had successfully…
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By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Sept 11, 2023Sri Lanka Republican Front leader Patali Champika Ranawaka, MP, has questioned the circumstances under which the Rajapaksas granted amnesty to 12,600 LTTE cadres following the successful conclusion of the war in May 2009. However, some of them were released during the Yahapalana administration (2015-2019) in which Ranawaka served as a Cabinet Minister. Ranawaka has also sought an explanation from former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brothers, Gotabaya…
report in Khaama Press on line, August 19, 2023On Afghanistan’s 104th independence anniversary, former President Hamid Karzai urged the Taliban administration to reopen girls’ schools and universities, emphasizing that true independence requires educational access for all. Karzai said about the critical role of knowledge and stressed that achieving peace, stability, development, and independence requires acquiring knowledge. Karzai urged all to educate their children, including girls. He called on the Taliban to open schools for girls…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, July 30, 2023The ouster of the Uddhav Thapa-led government in Koshi has sparked a debate on the status of the caretaker provincial administration. Province head Parshuram Khapung has not assigned a caretaker government, creating confusion even among government agencies. For instance, after the Supreme Court’s verdict on Thursday, a team of Nepal Army had reached CPN-UML leader Hikmat Karki’s residence to provide security, apparently believing that he was…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,June 19, 2023Hassan Kazemi Qomi, the special representative of Iran to Afghanistan met with Bakht-ur- Rahman Sharafat, the head of the Taliban railway administration, and discussed possible areas of cooperation. The Embassy of Iran to Kabul has said that the two sides discussed railway cooperation and utilization of the Khaf-Herat railway, a railway linking the two sanctioned countries t to the global markets via China. The Iranian Embassy in Kabul…
by Sahan Tennekoon in The Morning, June 14, 2023–Vetoes aligning with JVP-NPP as latter rejects tying up with the ‘corrupt’ and ‘thieves’In the wake of Freedom People’s Congress (FPC) Leader and Opposition Parliamentarian Dullas Alahapperuma expressing the FPC’s intention of establishing a joint Opposition with a programme to counter the administration of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the main Parliamentary Opposition Party, the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has already commenced discussions with the FPC on forming such…
Report in Dawn, May 25th, 2023NORTH / SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Four people, including two soldiers and a cop, lost their lives when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border on Wednesday, the district administration said. Separately, in South Waziristan, security forces killed six militants in an exchange of fire, the military said. North Waziristan’s deputy commissioner, Rehan Gull Khattak, said the suicide bomber targeted the…
report in The News, Mar 04, 2023LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned the Lahore district administration’s decision to deny the Aurat March organisers permission to hold a public rally marking International Women’s Day on Mar 8. In a statement issued Friday, the HRCP said, “It is regrettable that their right to peaceful assembly is routinely challenged by the district administration on the grounds that ‘controversial’ placards and ‘strong reservations’ from…
report in The News, Feb 20, 2023KABUL: The Taliban administration will move ahead with plans to turn former foreign military bases into special economic zones for businesses, the acting deputy prime minister for economic affairs said in a statement on Sunday. The acting commerce minister said in December that his ministry was working on the plan for former American bases and would submit it to both the economic committee led by acting deputy PM Mullah…
by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 3, 2023Reacting to yesterday’s (2) announcement that the Government would release 108 acres of land in the North today (3), the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) noted that the decision to release these lands was taken as far back as 2018 and that the Army had even vacated the lands although the lands had not been handed over to the people in the North by the time the administration…
by Zahid Hussain in Dawn, Dec 7th, 2022The writer is an author and journalist.THE attack on the Pakistan embassy in Kabul last week raises questions about the Taliban administration’s capacity and resolve to fight terrorist groups operating from Afghan soil. The shooting that targeted the chargé d’affaires seems to be an extension of the militants’ war on the Pakistani state. Although the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) has reportedly claimed responsibility for the assault, the identity of…