AFP report in Prothom Alo, Dec 20, 2023For a decade, the nimble fingers of Bangladeshi garment worker Naim Pramanik sewed shirts and trousers for top Western brands, to be worn by the wealthy across the world. Now the 28-year-old is unemployed, sacked after daring to take part in protests demanding a fair wage. “Some clothes we make are sold at $100 a piece in shops in America and Europe,” he said, showing the labels of…
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report in The News, November 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) supremo and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will undertake a one-day visit to Sialkot after returning from Quetta. It will be his first visit outside Lahore in Punjab. He has been invited for the visit by former federal minister and PMLN stalwart Khawaja Muhammad Asif. Sialkot has been a stronghold of the PMLN in recent years. Sources in the PMLN told The News here…
By Azeem Samar in The News, November 09, 2023KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Wednesday said that his party parted ways with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) after the former ruling party compromised on the sanctity of vote. “As long as PMLN’s narrative remained vote ko izzat do, we kept along but when this narrative changed, staying together became difficult,” the former foreign minister said while speaking to the media in Karachi’s…
By Shamsurrahman Khpalwak in ToloNews, Sept 7, 2023 at 8:34 PMThe Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, said that one of Islamic Emirate soldiers was killed and two others were injured as a result of yesterday’s clashes at the Torkham crossing between the Pakistani military and the Islamic Emirate forces. Mujahid did not address the cause of the clashes, but he emphasized that tensions should be solved through dialogue. “We ask the Pakistani side to be…
By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, April 12th, 2023QUETTA: Four policemen were martyred after an intense gun battle with terrorists in the Killi Spin area of Kuchlak on Tuesday. A heavy contingent of the police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), along with the Frontier Corps, had cordoned off a suspected compound on the tip about the presence of militants involved in Sunday’s attack on a police convoy. The alleged militants resorted to indiscriminate firing using automatic weapons,…