by Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, April 3, 2023The CPN (Unified Socialist), which was formed less than two years ago by splitting the CPN-UML, the country’s largest communist party, is gradually weakening as its leaders and cadres are ditching it and drifting back to the mothership. The party has been further weakened with several senior leaders quitting it after the recent presidential elections. The resignations came after party chair Madhav Nepal declined the CPN-UML’s…
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Reuters Report in Dawn, March 19th, 2023KABUL: The UN World Food Programme has been forced to cut rations to four million Afghans this month, it said in a statement late on Friday, due to a funding shortfall in the midst of the country’s severe humanitarian crisis. “Due to funding constraints, at least four million people will receive just half of what they need to get by in March,” the statement said, adding the UN food…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, Mar 17,2023 at 8:50 PMThe head of US Central Command, Michael Kurilla, said that Daesh In Afghanistan will be able to attack American or Western interests outside the country in less than six months “with little to no warning,” as reported by Star and Stripes. He made the remarks on Thursday at a Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that Daesh is rapidly developing the ability to conduct “external operations”…
by Pinaki Roy in The Daily Star, Mar 14, 2023Around two decades ago, river pollution was confined to mega cities like Dhaka and Chattogram. It has now spread to every town in the country. According to a new study, at least 56 rivers flowing through different parts of the country are suffering from extreme pollution during the lean period — when natural flows of rivers are at their lowest. Conducting a year-long physical survey and…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Mar 12, 2023 at 7:28 PMThe foreign ministers of Iran and Uzbekistan discussed the situation in Afghanistan and stressed the need to cooperate as neighbors to strengthen the country. The Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, Baxtiyor Saidov, traveled to Iran to meet with the country’s officials, including his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. A statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran said that the two sides called for cooperation for…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, Feb 26, 2023A group of females on Saturday announced the launch of the Afghanistan Women’s Revolution in Kabul, aiming to fight for fundamental human and women rights in the country. According to one of the organizers, Donya Safi, the movement aimed to “protect the basic rights of citizens, particularly women, as access to basic rights is a serious requirement for the citizens.” We started this campaign to fight the…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, February 21st, 2023PESHAWAR: A senior security official in the provincial capital has revealed that the militants are spending the money extorted from the people to carry out their activities in the country. He told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the extortion demands totalled around Rs1.06 billion as indicated by the complaints lodged by the police. The official said that the amount was much higher than reported because many people…
AFP report, February 17, 2023DHAKA: The United States will not lift sanctions on an elite Bangladesh police unit accused of extrajudicial killings until it is reformed, a top US envoy visiting the country has said. State Department Counselor Derek Chollet visited the South Asian country this week where he discussed security cooperation with government representatives in Dhaka. The diplomat is one of the most senior US officials to travel to Bangladesh since Washington sanctioned the…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 17, 2023The second-largest party in the House of Representatives, CPN-UML, has launched a two-month-long campaign called ‘Mission Grassroots’ starting on Friday, to strengthen the party organisation and broaden its ideological base at the local level across the country. On Friday, an orientation event for the leaders who would be working on ‘Mission Grassroots’ will be held in each of the seven provinces. To kickstart the campaign, party…
report in Prothom Alo, Feb 13, 2023Opposition BNP has no interest on who is going to be the next president of the country while the main opposition in parliament Jatiya Party has welcomed Mohammad Shahabuddin who is set to become the 22nd president of the country. Awami League nominated Shahabuddin is going to be the next president as no other candidate filed nomination for the top post of the state. JaPa chairman GM Quader said…
By Asma Saayin in ToloNews, Feb 12, 2023 at 9:20 PMThe Directorate of Prisons Affairs said that out of 14,000 people imprisoned across the country, 1000 of them are women. Officials of this department said that all of these prisoners have criminal cases. “Currently there are 14,000 prisoners and more than 1000 of them are women,” said Mohammad Yusuf Mistari, the director of the prison’s affairs. The head of this department said there are no…