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News Analysis: PTI’s intra-party polls raise red flags

By Zebunnisa Burki in The News, Dec 03, 2023KARACHI: The PTI’s intra-party election could go either way for the party, with electoral and constitutional experts saying that the PTI’s fate as an enlisted party and its election symbol both hang in the balance until the ECP notifies the party’s intra-party poll results. As the PTI’s founding member Akbar S Babar raised objections to the process adopted by the party for its intra-party polls, and with…

U.N. struggling to strike balance in Afghanistan amid humanitarian crisis

By Rick Noack in The Washington Post online, May 2, 2023 at 10.34 pmDOHA, Qatar — Twenty months after the Taliban returned to power, the United Nations is struggling to plot a course that, in part, would address Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis without running afoul of Western countries seeking to pressure the government in Kabul to moderate its policies. Emerging from two days of talks with diplomatic envoys focused on Afghanistan, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres…