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Self-inflicting mistakes reason for our current crises: Nawaz

report in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.LAHORE: Former Prime Minister and PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif expressed his disappointment over the current state of affairs in Pakistan on Tuesday, attributing it to self-inflicted mistakes rather than external factors. Speaking at a parliamentary board meeting in Lahore, Sharif acknowledged that the nation’s predicament was a result of domestic errors. “It’s not India or the United States; we are in this position due to our own…

Key western envoys launch political blitz

by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Nov 19th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: As the country readies for the crucial ballots next year, envoys representing key Western nations on Saturday sat down with linchpins of Pakistani politics — mainly from the PML-N and the PPP — chiefly to discuss the upcoming general elections and economic affairs. US Ambassador Donald Blome held a series of meetings with political figures, notably meeting with PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, PPP’s Yusuf Raza…

Analysts: Forced Deportations Not in Mandate of Pakistan’s Interim Govt

Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:02 PMWith the arrival of the November 1 deadline for Afghan migrants to leave Pakistan, some lawyers say that the interim government should be limited to just advancing the daily affairs of the country. The analysts said that the interim government should not make decisions that are controversial. “In Pakistan’s law when an interim prime minister come into power, they cannot do things like this, this is…

Nawaz’s call exposes division in PML-N

Rameez Khan in The Express Tribune, Sept 27, 2023LAHORE: Bringing the internal debate surrounding the party supremo Nawaz Sharif’s confrontational narrative, PML-N leader Javed Latif has said that the former prime minister believed that the current state of affairs could not be rectified if those responsible are allowed to walk free. The party leader shared Nawaz’s conviction that if people don’t stand behind the judges who, despite facing pressures, made decisions in accordance with the…

Suggestions of OIC Delegation Will Be Used in Govt Affairs: Mujahid

By Naveed Samadi in ToloNews, Sept 4, 2023 at 8:35 PMThe Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said that the suggestion and views of the delegation of the Organizations of Islamic Cooperation will be used in running an Islamic system in Afghanistan. Mujahid said that efforts are underway to address the concerns of the international community. “They have been assured that we will continue all affairs of the country based on Islamic rules and that the…

Iran emphasizes inclusive Afghan Govt despite Taliban warning

report in Khaama Press, online ,Sept 4, 2023Iran’s Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, has reiterated the call for the establishment of an inclusive government in Afghanistan, despite warnings from the Taliban de facto administration against foreign intervention in internal affairs. Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting Deputy Prime Minister of the de faction administration, emphasized during a meeting with Iran’s Ambassador and Special Representative to the President that external intervention should be avoided in our internal matters. The…

Regional Intel Groups Trying to Harm Afghan Ties With Neighbors: Stanekzai

By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Aug 6, 2023 at 8:54 PMSher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, the deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the intelligence of some regional countries are attempting to destroy the relations between Afghanistan and its neighbors. However, he didn’t name the countries. “Some of the intelligence circles try to defame the Afghans because thousands of Afghans exist there and some of them are detained in their prisons. Sometimes the intelligence are trying…

US State Dept Official: ‘I Don’t Think That Afghanistan is a Threat’

By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, July 14, 2023 at 8:39 PMThe Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Pakistan Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs of the US Department of State, Elizabeth Horst, said she believes that al-Qaeda cannot pose a threat to the United States from Afghanistan. She appeared for a congressional hearing, during which she was also asked about recent remarks of the US President Joe Biden about al-Qaeda in…