By Sahan Tennekoon in The Daily Morning, Nov 8, 2023The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) said that the lack of required facilities and institutional support have intensified the issues persisting in the country’s probation and child-care sector. Speaking to The Daily Morning yesterday (7), the NCPA Chairman Udayakumara Amarasinghe said that some of the probation and child-care centres do not have the minimum facilities, and that therefore, many children have started fleeing such centres. He…
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by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: Two former federal ministers respectively belonging to the PML-N and the PPP parties have said it was about time the country abandoned the concept of caretaker governments and strengthened the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the polls oversight authority. “My view is that caretaker experience hasn’t delivered any benefit,” PML-N Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal said while talking to The Express Tribune in the context of…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 02, 2023 at 8:59 PMThree thousand families have returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan through the Spin Boldak crossing in Kandahar in the last two days following the start of the process of forcible deportation of Afghan immigrants from the country. Local Kandahar officials said that in addition to providing first aid, they also established the framework for the repatriates’ transfer back to their respective provinces. “A total of 2,500 to…
ISLAMABAD: After months of dilly-dallying on the issue of polls, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) agreed to hold general elections in the country on Feb 8 next year — a date “set in stone”. The announcement by the ECP came after a meeting between President Arif Alvi and Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, who visited the presidency with the ECP members, on the orders of the Supreme Court, which had taken up pleas…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:02 PMWith the arrival of the November 1 deadline for Afghan migrants to leave Pakistan, some lawyers say that the interim government should be limited to just advancing the daily affairs of the country. The analysts said that the interim government should not make decisions that are controversial. “In Pakistan’s law when an interim prime minister come into power, they cannot do things like this, this is…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 2, 2023The government on Wednesday began rounding up undocumented foreigners, most of them illegal Afghans refugees, in all parts of the country after a midnight deadline for them to leave the country expired. The removal of the people to temporary holding centres began a day earlier than previously announced. Moreover, the interior ministry said 140,322 people had already left voluntarily. Afghans made up the bulk of those to have…
By Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Oct 30, 2023After enforcing its first nationwide hartal in eight years, BNP yesterday called a three-day rail, road, and waterways blockade across the country from Tuesday to Thursday. The opposition party will enforce the blockade to protest the killings of its activists in police action and the arrests of party leaders and supporters, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, over the last two days. BNP Senior…
report in The Island, Oct 30, 2023National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP has recently warned that the country will have to pay a very heavy price for violating bilateral agreements. The MP was commenting on the government delaying a scheduled visit by Chinese research vessel due to pressure exerted by external powers. The former Commerce and Industries Minister said so at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) on his return from Beijing where he…
report in Daily Times, Oct 23, 2023Terming Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif a “fugitive and criminal”, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Sunday claimed that the three-time former prime minister returned to the country under a “deal” and after changing his “narrative”. A day earlier, the PML-N supremo landed in Pakistan – ending a four-year self-imposed exile in London – and addressed a massive power show at the Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore. During his maiden…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 26, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that conspirators are active at home and abroad to halt the progress of the country. However, different government agencies are working to prevent anti-Bangladesh propaganda, she said. The premier said this in reply to a query of Awami League MP Nazrul Islam Babu from Narayanganj-2. With Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the question-answer session of the premier, who is now in Brussels,…
report in Daily Times, Oct 21, 2023The United States has urged Pakistan to allow Afghans seeking protection to enter the country. The US State Department said on Thursday that it strongly encourages Afghanistan’s neighbours, including Pakistan, to allow entry for Afghans seeking international protection and to coordinate with international humanitarian organizations to provide humanitarian assistance. “We strongly encourage Afghanistan’s neighbours, including Pakistan, to allow entry for Afghans seeking international protection and to coordinate with international…