By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 4, 2023The Taliban administration in Afghanistan considers one of its achievements in the past two years to be a reduction in conflicts and the establishment of overall security. While this claim is not entirely unfounded when it comes to armed confrontations, the question remains whether the security of citizens is truly guaranteed with a decrease in hostilities between opposing groups. Are people now able to continue…
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By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 01, 2023Giving continuity to diplomatic exchanges between the US and Nepal, several senior American officials are already in Kathmandu while more are scheduled to arrive within a week. USAID Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Asia Michael Schiffer is in Kathmandu and has started meeting ministers and officials. He arrived on Wednesday and met Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat on the same day. At the meeting, they…
By Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 24, 2023Thousands of people descended on Kathmandu on Thursday in a major show of force between two rival groups—the supporters of the controversial businessman Durga Prasai and sister organisations of the CPN-UML stewarded by lawmaker Mahesh Basnet. This was the first major demonstration in Kathmandu demanding the reinstatement of monarchy and Hindu state after Nepal became a secular republic in 2008. Fearing clashes between the two sides,…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 13, 2023KARACHI: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Inam Memon said on Sunday any electoral alliance between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) would have no political significance and the PPP would clean sweep the coming general elections. Addressing a press conference at the Bilawal House, Memon said before every elections, the political opponents tried to form an alliance against the PPP in Sindh…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 5, 2023ISLAMABAD:The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) has expressed misgivings about what it termed a “nexus” between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the interim government. In a statement on Saturday, PPP Secretary General Syed Nayyer Husain Bukhari sounded the alarm over the affiliation of caretaker federal ministers – Ahad Cheema and Fawad Hasan Fawad –with Nawaz Sharif and Shehbaz Sharif. He further suggested the governor of Punjab’s links with…
report in The Sunday Morning, Nov 5, 2023The end-October deadline for the finalisation of Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring programme by the Paris Club consortium of the country’s creditors has been further delayed, with the consortium waiting to see the framework agreement on debt treatment reached between Sri Lanka and China’s Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank), The Sunday Morning learns. Highly-placed Government sources told The Sunday Morning that the delay in the Paris Club consortium’s final proposal…
Report in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023LAHORE: Iranian Ambassador Dr Reza Amiri Moghaddam has identified a lack of banking channel, behaviour of some bureaucrats both in Pakistan and Iran, and an international currency, as major hurdles to the promotion of trade between Tehran and Islamabad. “Besides the currency problem, other issues that need immediate attention are establishing a formal banking channel, the main trade infrastructure, for business transactions between Pakistan and Iran, and bringing a change…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, October 21, 2023PESHAWAR: A station house officer was critically wounded when two police stations were attacked in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts on the night between Friday and Saturday. Reports said rockets were fired on the police station in Kulachi DIK where no casualty was reported. Later, a police station was attacked in Tank district. Reports said the SHO of the PS Asghar Khan was critically wounded…
By Shahabul Shahin in Prothom Alo, Oct 21, 2023The ruling Awami League has started preparations in Gaibandha ahead of the general elections. Although there is no overt rift over the district committee of the Awami League, there is conflict between the incumbent MP and local leaders over nomination. The committees of the associate bodies of the ruling party of the district have expired. On the other hand, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is being run…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express tribune, Sept17, 2023ISLAMABAD: The main border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan reopened on Friday, following an eight-day closure. However, the underlying tensions between the neighbouring nations are far from over. Official sources revealed to The Express Tribune on Saturday that the root cause of the ongoing tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan is the lack of action against the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The Torkham border crossing was abruptly shut…
report in The Sunday Times, Sept 3, 2023A ‘mini war’ has broken out between Cabinet Ministers and State Ministers in the execution of their duties. The State Ministers have complained to President Ranil Wickremesinghe that they have no functions to discharge allegedly due to their ministerial colleagues usurping them. In addition, they have also complained that they have not been issued with good vehicles or other facilities they are entitled to. The issue has reached…