report in The Island, Dec 31, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe has appointed Justice Neil Iddawala, retired Judge of the Appeal Court, as the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and two other members of the Commission, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said. The other members are Chethiya Goonesekera PC, previously in the Attorney-General’s Department and K. Bernard Rajapakse, a former DGM of the People’s Bank. The appointments are with effect from…
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report in Dhaka Tribune, Dec 11, 2023 DeskMajor General (Retd) Syed Mohammad Ibrahim, chairman of the Bangladesh Kalyan Party, has been expelled from the organization by its other leaders. The information was disclosed in a statement from the Bangladesh Kalyan Party on Sunday. The statement revealed that Ibrahim was expelled for joining the electoral alliance called the United Front without prior notice, a move considered to oppose the party’s ideology. According to Article 20 (E)…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023ISLAMABAD – Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Saturday replaced incarcerated ex-premier Imran Khan as the chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in a crucial but controversial intra-party polls whose fate will be decided by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and higher courts. Barrister Gohar was elected PTI chairman unopposed in the contest held in Peshawar on the directions of the electoral watchdog. The entire panel of new…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023QUETTA: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has called upon his political rival, Nawaz Sharif, to contest elections “on an ideology” and not with “the help of administration”. In a press conference in Quetta on Saturday, when Mr Bhutto-Zardari was asked about the PML-N leader, he said, “Mian Sahib, respect the vote, don’t disrespect the vote.” He said some people have “a misconception that political winds are in their favour”,…
By Rashidul Hasan in The Daily Star, Dec 01, 2023Jatiya Party, the main opposition in parliament, is facing another split centring the conflict between its Chairman GM Quader and Chief Patron Raushan Ershad over MP nominations, party insiders said. Raushan, also the leader of the opposition, on Wednesday night announced that she would not participate in the national election because tested leaders of the party were undermined. She was frustrated that she could not secure…
ISLAMABAD: One of the founding members of the PTI, Akbar S. Babar has rejected Imran Khan’s nomination of Barrister Gohar Ali Khan as a candidate for the party chairman’s slot, calling it “selection instead of an election”. In a press statement, Mr Babar, who had filed the foreign funding case against the PTI, said the nomination of the new PTI chairman has raised serious questions about the transparency and credibility of the entire PTI intra-party…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 20, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court will take up PTI chairman and deposed premier Imran Khan’s intra-court appeal on Monday (today) against a single-judge bench’s decision that had approved his jail trial in the cipher case and the appointment of the judge for the special court of the Official Secrets Act. An IHC division bench, comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz, will hear the matter.…
report in Daily Star, N0v 5, 2023Jatiya Party is ready for the upcoming election but it will participate only if the polls are held in a credible manner, said JP Chairman GM Quader yesterday. “If we feel the election is not being conducted properly, we will boycott the polls. We will take a decision after discussing with party leaders and workers,” he said while addressing the publication ceremony of his books–“Bangladesh Democracy Sonar Patharbati” and…
By Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, October 26th, 2023LAHORE: The PML-N and the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) have called for action against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and his party’s then Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for allegedly misusing Rs870 million state fund for hiring ‘trolls’ and ‘influencers’ for social media campaigns. On the other hand, the PTI has termed it a “malicious propaganda campaign” against the party by the vested interest, demanding investigation against then chief minister…