By Fidel Rahmati in THe Khaama Press Online, November 27, 2023A survey by the Afghanistan Women’s Journalist Association (AWJA) revealed that female journalists in Afghanistan deal with multiple challenges, including limited access to information. The AWJA’s findings reveal that female journalists grapple with multiple issues, including job insecurity, financial constraints, and other significant restrictions that hinder their ability to work effectively. Mina Habib, the head of AWJA, emphasized that the survey revealed significant issues faced…
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report in The Sunday Morning, Nov 5, 2023The end-October deadline for the finalisation of Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring programme by the Paris Club consortium of the country’s creditors has been further delayed, with the consortium waiting to see the framework agreement on debt treatment reached between Sri Lanka and China’s Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank), The Sunday Morning learns. Highly-placed Government sources told The Sunday Morning that the delay in the Paris Club consortium’s final proposal…
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 Dawn, October 13th, 2023TAXILA: Senior PML-N leader Ataullah Tarar on Thursday set aside the perception that the return of party supremo Nawaz Sharif was the outcome of any deal with the establishment. Talking to newsmen at Kohistan Secretariat here, he clarified that there were no changes or cancellation of Mr Sharif’s return to Pakistan and all the speculations in this regard were misleading. Mr Tarar said on October 21 Mr Sharif would make…
report in ECONOMYNEXT, Sept 30, 2023 at 9:23 pm– The National Christian Council of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) in a statement on the Online Safety Bill, said that the existing legal regime is adequate to deal with instances of harmful speech, making it unjustifiable to enact such “stringent laws”. The Council called upon the government to withdraw the bill immediately. The body expressed “deep concern” over the proposed bill, detailing its potential to curtail freedom of…
By Tanveer Malik in The News, September 23, 2023KARACHI: Pakistan will hold talks with Russia next month on a long-term arrangement for importing Russian crude oil, as the country seeks to diversify its energy sources and cope with high prices of petroleum products. A high-level delegation will attend an energy conference in Russia from Oct. 10 to Oct. 12, and meet with Russian officials on the sidelines to discuss energy cooperation, sources told The News…
By Tanveer Malik in The News, September 23, 2023KARACHI: Pakistan will hold talks with Russia next month on a long-term arrangement for importing Russian crude oil, as the country seeks to diversify its energy sources and cope with high prices of petroleum products. A high-level delegation will attend an energy conference in Russia from Oct. 10 to Oct. 12, and meet with Russian officials on the sidelines to discuss energy cooperation, sources told The News…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 10, 2023A crack has opened up in the ruling coalition following the signing on Tuesday of a five-point agreement between the home ministry and the Gaur Murder Victims Struggle Committee. At least 27 Maoist cadres were killed in Gaur of Rautahat district on March 21, 2007 in an ugly confrontation with the cadres of the then Madheshi Janadhikar Forum led by Upendra Yadav. Yadav now chairs the…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Jue 26, 2023Nepal is all set to sell 200 megawatts of electricity to India under a five-year deal in what would be the first-ever longer-term trading of power between the two countries, according to a senior official of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA). “The state-owned power utility and NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN) of India signed an agreement on May 23, paving the way for the…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, May 15, 2023The ruling and the opposition parties on Sunday agreed to stick to their last month’s deal on sharing the leadership in the parliamentary committees and endorsing various bills. The top leaders of the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre) had on April 23 agreed to give leadership of three House committees to the main opposition in return for its support in endorsing the…