report in Dhaka Tribune,Dec 31, 2023As the country gears up for voting on January 7, violence centering on the election and breaches of the electoral code of conduct continue amid warnings and action by the Election Commission (EC). In Dhaka, at least 12 people were injured in a factional clash among the followers of the Awami League’s Dhaka-10 candidate, Ferdous Ahmed, during an election campaign program in the Central Road area Saturday afternoon. The injured…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023Veteran politician and esteemed lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan has made startling predictions regarding PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif, suggesting that the former premier might once again exit the country before the upcoming elections and keep tabs on the results from abroad. Ahsan shared his insights during an interview with a private news channel on Friday. Pointing out that the PML-N supremo “is abroad anyways”, Ahsan speculated on the possibility of…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023SHEIKHUPURA: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif has said that on February 8 the people of Pakistan will have to choose between those who are committed to strengthening the nation and those who attacked their own country on May 9. “These elections are no ordinary elections. You must come to vote with passion. When you cast your vote, you must see what the leader has done in the past,” Shehbaz…
By Naweed Samadi in TOLOnews Online Dec 29, 2023 at 8:54 PMKazakhstan ambassador to Afghanistan Alim Khan Yasin Galdiev in a meeting with the acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that his country has taken the Islamic Emirate off the list of groups whose activities are banned in this country. The deputy spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, quoted Alim Khan Yasin Galdiev as saying that Kazakhstan wants to expand its…
By Sahan Tennekoon in The Daily Morning, Dec 29, 2023Following many claims being circulated that the Tamil parties from the North and the East of the country are planning to put forward a Tamil candidate for the upcoming Presidential Election, no formal discussion has taken place in this regard thus far, The Daily Morning learnt. Speaking to The Daily Morning yesterday (28), the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) Batticaloa District Opposition Parliamentarian Govindan Karunakaran said…
By Imtiaz Hussain in The News, December 28, 2023GARHI KHUDA BAKHSH: Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari said on Wednesday that Pakistan was not a poor country but it was Islamabad that had a poor insight into the issues confronting the nation. Speaking at the 16th death anniversary of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto here on Wednesday, Zardari said: “The problem lies not in Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, or Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, but in the…
report in The Island, Dec 25, 2023BBC has reported that Police in Sri Lanka have claimed to have arrested almost 15,000 people during a week-long drive against drug traffickers across the country. The police also say the operation led to the seizure of almost 440kg of various types of narcotics, including heroin. Local media showed footage of officers using sniffer dogs to search homes in Colombo and other places. Rights activists said the raids were…
by Mateen Haider in The Nation, Dec18, 2023ISLAMABAD – In recent harrowing incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, a disturbing revelation has emerged – the use of non-local American made weapons, believed to be procured from Afghanistan, by various militant groups operating within the country. This revelation underscores the pressing need for a thorough examination of the evolving security dynamics in the region, particularly the presence of huge leftover weapons by US forces in Afghanistan. For…
What Went Wrong with Pakistan’s “Strategic Depth” Policy?
by Abdul Rehman in South Voices, Henry L. Stimson Center, Dec 14, 2023As Pakistan begins deporting 1.7 million undocumented Afghan refugees, Pak-Afghan relations stand at a historical low. Almost four decades ago, when Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan, four million Afghan refugees migrated to Pakistan to seek shelter. Following recent growing tensions between Kabul and Islamabad, Pakistan gave all undocumented Afghan migrants – many of which have been born and raised in Pakistan – until November…