By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews Online, Oct 31, 2023 at 8:29 PMAmir Khan Muttaqi, the acting foreign minister of the Islamic Emirate, on a visit to Türkiye, has met with Hakan Fidan, the foreign minister of Türkiye. The two discussed strengthening diplomatic and economic relations and the creation of new trade corridors between Afghanistan and Türkiye. Hafi Zia Ahmad Takal, the deputy spokesperson for the ministry of foreign affairs of the Islamic Emirate said that…
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By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 30, 2023The high-level visit by the UN Secretary General António Guterres has been an opportunity for the victims from the Maoist insurgency to draw his attention to their long struggle for justice. In the first week of October, the Conflict Victims Common Platform and the Conflict Victims National Network, two different organisations of the victims, had urged Guterres to press the government to amend the Enforced Disappearances…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 7, 2023As Nepal’s protracted transitional justice process grinds on, the victims of the Maoist insurgency have urged the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to press the government to amend the Transitional Justice Act to ensure a victim-centric resolution. A group of conflict victims’ representatives submitted their written concerns on Friday to Guterres through the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Kathmandu. They made the appeal to the…
report in Prothom Alo, Sept 29, 2023The internal conflict within both the Awami League and BNP has escalated significantly in Faridpur, in the lead-up to the upcoming national parliament elections. Within the district Awami League, there are two active factions. The first faction is under the leadership of the district president, general secretary, and joint secretary. The second faction operates under the central committee member Bipul Ghosh. Notably, the former president of the district Awami…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post,August 18, 2023Former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, one of the ideologues of the Maoist insurgency, has warned of another conflict if the regular courts started to look into conflict-era cases. In his response to the Supreme Court in a case related to the use of child soldiers in the insurgency, the former vice-chair of the Maoist party said the regular court processes cannot ensure transitional justice and therefore…