Editorial in Dawn, August 18th, 2023THE paroxysm of violence in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala area on Wednesday chillingly demonstrated to the Christian community, indeed to adherents of all minority faiths in the country, that they are defenceless against the rage of the mob. That over 600 people were booked on terrorism charges for their role in the rioting is a belated and anaemic demonstration of the ‘writ of the state’. From all accounts, the state was nowhere…
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Editorial in The News, August 17, 2023As multiple churches in Jaranwala were vandalized and scores of houses belonging to the Christian community were set on fire over alleged blasphemy allegations on Wednesday, the only question we were left with was: how did we become a country where the weakest and least powerful among us are the most likely to be targeted? In fact, if any of us professes shock that such an attack could take…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Aug 17, 2023About 2,000 doctors had left the country during the past two years, All Ceylon Medical Officers’ Association (ACMOA) General Secretary Dr. Jayantha Bandara said on Wednesday (16). Now about 5,000 more doctors were planning to leave the country, Dr. Bandara said. “There are many reasons why professionals are leaving the country. Instead of addressing the concerns of doctors, the government is threatening to blacklist them and arrest…
by Tahir Khan in Dawn, August 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday celebrated the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul at a time when the country faces a variety of challenges, the foremost being the non-recognition of their government by every single country in the world. Senior Taliban leaders, including Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Salam Hanafi, spoke at a gathering in Kabul and highlighted achievements over the past two years, but did not…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post,August 6, 2023Nepal is awaiting India’s decision on a number of hydropower-related issues as restlessness grows in the country over the southern neighbour’s continued delay in taking decisions. Despite initialling a 25-year-long inter-governmental framework agreement on selling Nepal’s electricity to the southern neighbour during the state visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to India from May 31 to June 3, the agreement has not been signed yet.…
report in The News, August 05, 2023KHAR: A newly formed organization here on Friday announced to stage a sit-in for peace at Khar Bazaar on August 14 on the occasion of the Independence Day of the country. In a press release issued after the first meeting of the organization named “Da Bajaur Zwanano Tolana” said the people belonging to all segments of the society could become its members to make efforts for the restoration of…
By Yousaf Ali in The News, August 05, 2023PESHAWAR: The grand tribal jirga has termed the recent wave of terror incidents as open terrorism against Pakistan, which is aimed at internally, economically and politically paralyzing the country under a well-planned international conspiracy. Therefore, the state institution should sit together with the political forces and foil the designs of the anti-state elements, said Maulana Fazlur Rahman, while reading the joint declaration adopted on the occasion. He…
Report in Dawn, August 4th, 2023KARACHI: Kabul has refuted what it terms allegations levelled by Pakistan, saying that the Afghan Taliban do not allow anyone to use Afghan territory against another country. In a couple of tweets on Thursday, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said: “If there is any concern, it should be shared with the officials of the Islamic Emirate face to face, rather than making unnecessary claims in the media and confusing people’s…
by Anwarullah Khan in Dawn, August 4th, 2023BAJAUR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazl ur Rehman on Thursday condemned Sunday’s suicide bombing of his party’s workers convention in Bajaur tribal district and said the attack was an attempt by the country’s “enemies” to sabotage the visit of China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng. “Several foreign forces are behind Sunday’s carnage,” Mr Fazl told a jirga of elders and party’s senior leaders and activists at the district administration’s…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, July 31st, 2023WASHINGTON: Mohsin Dawar, who heads the National Democratic Movement, has warned that militancy will spin out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and engulf the entire Pakistan. In a conversation with Pakistani journalists and scholars near Washington, the Pashtun member of the National Assembly also opposed banning former prime minister Imran Khan and his supporters from the next elections as doing so was “against democratic norms”. The briefing was held hours…
report in Prothom Alo, July 14, 2023Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has announced a 31-point pledges to reform the constitution, the state machinery, and achieve economic emancipation of the country. Party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the announcement at a press conference in the capital’s Gulshan on Thursday. The de facto opposition party came up with the programmes one day after announcing their one-point demand to oust the ruling Awami League government. The…