By Asim Yasin in The News, Dec 03, 2023ISLAMABAD: Leaders of two major political parties, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN), exchanged barbs on Saturday, with the former accusing the latter of plans to abolish the 18th Amendment after coming to power and the latter blaming the former for unnecessary criticism to win over anti-PMLN votes. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on Saturday whether it was in Pakistan or in…
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report in Daily Times, Oct 26, 2023Senior PML-N leader Senator Ishaq Dar on Wednesday said he expected a meeting between party supremo Nawaz Sharif and PPP co-chairperson Asif Ali Zardari would “hopefully” take place, after weeks of enduring veiled criticism from the PPP over election delays. Speaking in an interview with a private news channel , the senator was questioned about increasing criticism from the PPP for the treatment meted out to Nawaz on his…
report in Dawn, October 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday doubled down on its policy to evict all illegal immigrants — including around 1.7 million Afghan refugees — from the country, saying that the decision was in line with international practices. Meanwhile, as law enforcement agencies continued their crackdown on people they call ‘illegal aliens’, a sizeable number of families have been crossing the border into Afghanistan over the past week. “No country allows illegal…
By Ali Raza & Mumtaz Alvi & Saeed Niazi & Waqar Satti in The News, Sept 3, 2023ISLAMABAD/ LONDON/LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has revoked the services of Geoffrey Robertson KC after announcing that PTI Chairman Imran Khan has hired the British lawyer to represent him in international courts in cases related to “unlawful detention and human rights abuses”. But the PTI deleted the tweet within hours and terminated the services of the lawyer after criticism…
Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023KABUL / PESHAWAR: Following a number of strongly-worded protests from Islamabad, calling on the Taliban regime to prevent militants and terrorists from using Afghan soil to attack Pakistan, Kabul has alleged — for the first time — that several militants from Pakistan have been killed or captured in Afghanistan over the past year. Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP on Wednesday that in the past year, 18 people “eliminated…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 21, 2023Rabi Lamichhane and, by extension, Rastriya Swatantra Party’s supporters have been showing little tolerance for criticism and questions being asked of the newly-emerged party and its leader. Insults and epithets like ‘traitor’, ‘jhole’, ‘patrukar’, ‘brokers’ and the like are routinely traded on social media by the followers against just anyone who expresses any critical comment against Lamichhane and the RSP. Such low-level comments pour in immediately…