By Mushtaq Paracha in The News, Dec 4, 2023NOWSHERA: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf-Parliamentarians (PTIP) Chairman and former defence minister Pervez Khattak on Sunday criticised the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for what he said was conducting a ‘fake’ intra-party election. Addressing a gathering of party workers here, he said that the PTI had a history of holding fraudulent intra-party elections. Calling for democracy in the political parties, he alleged that the PTI’s intra-party elections were carried out on paper.…
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By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 28, 2023The Afghanistan envoy to Islamabad was summoned to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in response to a recent terrorist attack. They were tasked with ensuring action against groups in Afghanistan conducting terrorist attacks against Pakistan. The attack targeted a security forces convoy in Bannu district on Sunday, allegedly carried out by an Afghan national. Pakistan has claimed that the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group…
by Biplab Maharjan in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 23, 2023In the November 3 Jajarkot earthquake, several school buildings in Darma Rural Municipality in the neighbouring Salyan district were destroyed and many others suffered damage to the point where conducting classes became too risky. As there is no possibility of the government carrying out immediate repairs or reconstruction of the damaged buildings, students are having to study under open skies while some of them are making…
By Arfa Feroz Zake & Awaid Yousafzai in The News, October 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Monday found no apparent malice behind conducting Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s jail trial in the cipher case, the court’s verdict read, directing him to approach the trial court if reservations persist. The court’s decision, announced by IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, came in the wake of hearing Khan’s plea challenging his jail trial in the…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Sept 19, 2023Rebel SLPP MP Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday (18) asked President Ranil Wickremesinghe whether the latter intended to postpone the next presidential election indefinitely by claiming the government lacked sufficient funds for conducting elections. The former External Affairs Minister raised the issue in the wake of UNP MP Vajira Abeywardena’s recent declaration that the government wouldn’t be able to meet the basic requirements of the people if…
report in The Daily Star July 13, 2023Announcing a one-point movement for polls under a non-party interim government, the BNP yesterday asked the government to step down right away and pave the way for conducting the election freely and fairly. The party declared it will hold marches in all city and district headquarters on July 18 and July 19 in the first programme as part of the one-point movement. Apart from the BNP, 36 like-minded…