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Joint panel starts working on Afghan deportation plan

By Shakeel Anjum in The News, October 07, 2023ISLAMABAD: A joint committee has started working on the deportation implementation plan (DIP) and is compiling data on the legal and illegal immigrants living in Pakistan, sources in the interior ministry confided to this correspondent. The committee comprises representatives from the Afghan Commissionerate, interior ministry of Pakistan, provinces, FIA, IB, police and Pakistan Administrative Service and other relevant institutions. The committee would deal with the deportation of…

Stunned by the RSP, can Nepal’s old parties reinvent themselves?

By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 26, 2023The writer is a senior political correspondent for the Post, covering politics, parliament, judiciary and social affairs. sAfter candidates of the new Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) won two of the three parliamentary seats for which by-elections were held on Sunday, leaders of big parties and political observers have started speculating what lies ahead for the major parties. As of late evening on Tuesday, Janata Samajbadi…

Acid violence on the rise, authorities pay no heed

by Naznin Akhter in Prothom Alo, Feb 25, 2023“It feels uneasy going out. Everyone keeps staring at my face, ” said Md Asad Mondal (20), sharing his pains with this correspondent. He’s a first year student at the political science department of Chittagong University. He was admitted to the university just two days prior to becoming an acid victim. He spoke from his aunt’s house in Mirpur in the capital on 12 January. He had…