by Noman Awan in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2023KARACHI: Political observers have said that the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) parties, especially the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), were having a “rude awakening” as they struggle to muster voters’ support ahead of the February 8 general elections. “They thought that the PTI had become a thing of the past. They thought the PTI had been erased from the political arena for good,…
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by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister Shaukat Tarin, a key figure in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, announced on Friday that he had decided to quit the PTI and politics for good, marking another setback for the Imran Khan-led party ahead of the general election. Mr Tarin, who was one of the heads of PTI’s manifesto committees, said he has also decided to resign as a member of the Senate. In a…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Dec 5, 2023The rebel SLPP group yesterday (04) accused President Ranil Wickremesinghe of trying to bring the legislature under his control ahead of presidential and parliamentary polls scheduled for 2024 and 2025. Addressing the weekly media briefing at Nawala, top Opposition spokesperson and former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris alleged that Wickremesinghe’s recent threat to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to ascertain the status of the Constitutional…
Report in Kathmandu Post, Nov 22, 2023The Lalitpur District Administration on Tuesday issued a prohibitory order banning demonstrations, mass meetings, protests and gatherings in the Pulchowk area for six months. The ban covers areas like the residences of ministers, the UN building, the National Human Rights Commission and the areas adjoining the major establishments. The move comes a day after the Kathmandu District Administration Office issued a similar order banning protests and demonstrations along the…
AFP report, Nov 20, 2023DHAKA: Bangladesh’s highest court on Sunday upheld a ban on the country’s largest Islamist party taking part in polls, lawyers said, as political tensions worsen ahead of key January elections. Jamaat-i-Islami, a major opposition party with millions of supporters, was banned from contesting polls in 2013 after high court judges ruled its charter violated the secular constitution of the Muslim-majority nation of 170 million people. Jamaat was also barred from participating…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, November 12th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, apparently perturbed at being tagged by his opponents as ladla (blue-eyed) and his party a ‘favourite’ of the military establishment, asked party’s new manifesto committee to address this matter while finalising it later this month. On the other hand, PML-N has defended its current equation with the powers that be, wondering why such a question is being raised now when the party had…
Report in Business Recorder, Nov 9, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Wednesday constituted a five-member political engagement committee to open communication lines with other political parties for the upcoming general elections. A notification issued by PTI secretary general said that the political engagement committee comprising Ali Zafar, Dr Humayun Mohmand, Ali Muhammad Khan, Ali Asghar Khan and PTI’s central information secretary Raoof Hasan. The formation of the committee comes a day after rival Pakistan Muslim…
report in Colombo Gazette, Oct 8, 2023The Government is keen to go ahead with a systematic development plan for the Trincomalee Port prepared by a Singaporean company, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. President Ranil Wickremesinghe unveiled an ambitious 10-year initiative aimed at boosting agriculture and tourism in the Eastern Province, with a particular focus on the development of Trincomalee. He highlighted plans to harness the untapped potential of the Mahaweli A and B zones in…
by Ahmadul Hassan in Prothom Alo, July 28, 2023The Special Branch (SB) of police began gathering data of voters in every constituency ahead of the twelfth parliamentary election. The intelligence unit of police is also collecting data on whether any polling centres are risky, how is the infrastructure of the polling centres, how many voters belong to minority communities or support Jamaat-e-Islami. Sources said SB headquarters on 24 July asked field level officials and district…
report in The Island, Mar 1, 2023Public sector trade unions yesterday (28) vowed to go ahead with their one-day strike scheduled for today (01) to pressure the government to reverse new tax regime. Spokesperson for the trade union collective, Ranjan Jayalal, told The Island that workers in sectors such as petroleum, electricity, ports, water supply and drainage, health, education, banking would join the strike. Jayalal said that the issuance of an extraordinary gazette Monday (27)…