By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Sept 16, 2023Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP, yesterday (15) asked whether a comprehensive international investigation into accountability issues here could be conducted unless India, too, was subjected to the same. The former Public Security Minister was responding to the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) declaration that India and Sri Lanka Core Group at the ongoing 54 session of the UN…
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report in Daily Mirror online, Aug 30, 2023 at 06:36 pmWhile emphasizing the government’s resolute dedication to protecting religious shrines and historical sites, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said a committee comprising religious leaders from the respective provinces will be set up aiming at addressing religious matters in the North and East. “I must emphatically state that we remain resolute in preventing external entities from instigating disturbances. To foster harmony and prevent potential conflicts, we are actively…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 10, 2023A crack has opened up in the ruling coalition following the signing on Tuesday of a five-point agreement between the home ministry and the Gaur Murder Victims Struggle Committee. At least 27 Maoist cadres were killed in Gaur of Rautahat district on March 21, 2007 in an ugly confrontation with the cadres of the then Madheshi Janadhikar Forum led by Upendra Yadav. Yadav now chairs the…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 5, 2023As a parliamentary panel prepares to finalise a bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act, the insurgency victims, human rights activists and civil society members staged a sit-in in the Capital on Friday to pressure the committee to correct flawed provisions in the bill. Carrying placards with various slogans, they demanded the sub-committee of the Law and Justice Committee of the House of…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, July 20, 2023The Nepali Congress leadership has come under withering attack from its own leaders at the ongoing central working committee meeting, which started on Monday in Lalitpur. The meeting is taking place after almost a year, although the party’s statute requires that it be held every two months. Those speaking on Tuesday and Wednesday at the meeting, which was broadcast live on social media for the first…
Congress rival factions devise strategies to counter each other at central working committee meeting
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, July 18, 2023On Tuesday, the Nepali Congress is holding its first Central Working Committee meeting after the general elections held in November 2022. According to leaders, the meeting will discuss policy conventions and assess the polls besides other contemporary political developments. The meeting will be crucial with party president Sher Bahadur Deuba expected to face many questions and a hail of criticism from the central working committee…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday called the party’s central working committee meeting for July 12. The meeting had been pending for a year and is expected to see heated debates over several issues that the party has been confronting. A meeting of Deuba, vice-presidents Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung, and general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma took a decision to that effect.…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 13, 2023National Assembly Chairman Ganesh Prasad Timilsina discussed various facets of Nepal-China relations on Monday with Zhao Leji, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China. Timilsina, who is on an official visit to China, met Zhao at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. During the meeting, chair Timilsina said Nepal and China have had cordial and very close relations for centuries, adding…
By Ahmad Yosufkhail in TOLOnews Online, June 11, 2023 at 8:05 PMIn reaction to a report by the monitoring and analysis team of the sanctions committee of the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate in a statement on Sunday called the findings of the report “biased and far from the reality.” “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers the continuation of UN Security Council sanctions and such reports as full…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 17, 2023With ruling parties including the Nepali Congress opposing the CPN-UML’s demand that the second-largest party must have four House members in the hearings committee, crucial bills are stuck in Parliament. Even the scheduled meetings of the top leaders of the three major parties—the Congress, the UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre)—have failed to take place due to the dispute. In a clear sign of conflict,…
Report in The Nation, Dec 31, 2022ISLAMABAD – The National Security Committee (NSC) Friday expressed an unequivocal opinion that Pakistan’s national interests will not be compromised and nobody will be allowed to harm the key concept of national security. The NSC, which met in Islamabad on Friday with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair, expressed the commitment that the fundamental interests of Pakistan’s survival, security and development will be safeguarded with utmost courage, consistency…