report in The Express Tribune, November 24th, 2023.RAWALPINDI: Top military commanders on Thursday said the country had witnessed an increasing sense of stability, certainty and optimism in recent months despite challenges, resolving that “vested effort” towards “engineering of despondency” would be defeated through perseverance and continued positive actions, with the support of the people of Pakistan. The statement came at the conclusion of 82nd Formation Commanders’ Conference presided over by Chief of Army Staff (COAS)…
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By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 27, 2023At first blush, the byelection in Bara-2 was a straight shootout between Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav and Janamat Party’s candidate Shiv Chandra Kushwaha. But dig a little and it was so much more, as Madhesh observers had commented in the lead-up to the polls. It was a contest for prestige, a battle between a Madhesh veteran, Yadav, and newly emerged popular leader CK Raut,…