report in Prothom Alo, Dec 6, 2023The ruling Awami League has adopted a strategy to field independent candidates, aiming to enhance competitiveness in the upcoming 12th parliamentary election and ensure a 50 per cent voter turnout. This move has elicited mixed reactions among party contenders. However, numerous candidates participating in the upcoming election are advocating for the exclusion of independent contenders from the competition. Independent candidates have posed challenges for the 14-party Alliance and its…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Nov 19th, 2023QUETTA: Five people, including three Levies personnel, were injured in two armed attacks in Chagai and Pishin districts of Balochistan on Saturday. Three Levies personnel sustained injuries in an attack by unidentified gunmen at a check post on the Quetta-Taftan highway in Chagai. Officials said a group of armed men raided a pickup in the Gazan area near Dalbandin and indiscriminately fired at the Levies personnel on duty…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 27, 2023The two bitter political arch-rivals, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), on Thursday finally sat together to discuss the ongoing political situation in the country and initiate dialogue among the political forces. In what is being seen as a huge political U-turn, the PTI leaders, including Asad Qaiser, Ali Muhammad Khan, and Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, approached JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman at his residence…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 23th, 2023KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and two others were gunned down in suspected targeted attacks in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said. They said that Niaz Husain, 45, was gunned down by armed motorcyclists near Aman Chowk in Khairabad within the remit of the Manghopir police station on Sunday evening. An area police officer, Saeed Wahab, said that the victim was a…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Oct 19th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Amid speculation that the caretaker government is thinking of initiating a reconciliation dialogue among all political stakeholders, caretaker Information Minister Murtaza Solangi held separate meetings with leaders of the PPP and PML-N, on Wednesday. The meetings came a day after PTI leader Shafqat Mehmood, who also met Mr Solangi recently, revealed that he had floated the idea of a grand national reconciliation dialogue among all political…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 17, 2023Washington wants dialogue among the political parties for a free, fair and peaceful election in Bangladesh due in January next year, said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen yesterday. Momen’s comment came after a meeting with Afreen Akhter, the US deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. “The US government endorsed the recommendations of the NDI and IRI. They also spoke about dialogue bilaterally…
AFP Report, Sept 17, 2023WASHINGTON: The United States said Friday it will interview more witnesses of a suicide bombing that killed scores of people — among them 13 US troops — during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. A US investigation concluded that the August 26, 2021 Abbey Gate bombing in Kabul could not have been prevented, but Republican lawmakers have piled pressure on President Joe Biden’s administration over both the attack and the chaotic nature of…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, August 31st, 2023QUETTA: A top commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and three other militants of the group were killed in an exchange of fire with CTD officials during an operation in the Surkhab Afghan refugee camp area of Pishin. The TTP commander was identified as Shakar Din alias Omer Khalid. Three other TTP militants were identified as Ahmedullah, Aminullah and Abdul Fatha, all Afghans. A spokesman for the…
Report in Dawn, August 18th, 2023QUETTA: A traffic policeman was martyred by unknown gunmen in Pishin town, while another man was killed by an assailant in the Mastung area, on Thursday. Police said the traffic constable, identified as Abdul Ghafoor, was on duty in the main city area when unknown people on motorbikes opened fire on him using automatic weapons. He died on the spot and the attackers escaped. Police rushed to the site and…