Report in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which has been consistently vocal against attempts to delay the polls beyond the January timeline set by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), on Sunday took issue with the demand — coming from the PML-N and JUI-F — to postpone the elections even further. In a statement, PPP leader and former deputy NA speaker Faisal Karim Kundi said the ECP was bound by the…
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report in Nepalnews.com, Aug 16, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said that attempts are ongoing to create rift in the ruling alliance and that are exhibited through the activities carried out against the government and the disruptions in the parliamentary business. At a meeting with the editors of the major media outlets on Tuesday, the PM said, “I have realized this in the recent time. But I think there is no unease in the…
By MEERA SRINIVASAN in The Island, June 25, 2023Accountability remains the “fundamental gap” in Sri Lanka’s attempts to deal with the past, a senior U.N. official has said while warning that “as long as impunity prevails, Sri Lanka will achieve neither genuine reconciliation nor sustainable peace.” Referring to the Sri Lankan government’s plans to set up a Truth Commission, to probe allegations of war crimes and grave human rights violations during the country’s civil war,…
report in ECONOMYNEXT online, Apr 24, 2023China, one of Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral lenders, attempted to prove its close cooperation with the island nation after its state-owned China Merchants Group (CMG) signed the first large investment deal since the Indian Ocean nation declared bankruptcy. The Hong Kong-listed company signed a $392 million agreement with government-owned Sri Lanka Ports Authority on Saturday to jointly build the South Asia Commercial and Logistics Hub. “We are always “providing…
By Shenal Fernando in The Morning, Mar12, 2023*Attempts to renegotiate terms with PBoC futile: CBSL**Sources reveal response from China has not been ‘favourable’Despite several attempts by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to renegotiate the conditions of the CNY 10 billion (equivalent to $ 1.5 billion) currency swap with the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), all attempts have proved futile as the response has not been favourable. Accordingly, the currency swap remains unusable to…