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Zardari calls party leaders’ meeting in Dubai

By Asim Yasin in The News, September 01, 2023ISLAMABAD: PPP Parliamentarians President Asif Ali Zardari has summoned the party’s senior leaders in Dubai to assess the country’s political situation in the wake of countrywide demonstrations against inflation and the inflated power bills. PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is already in Dubai. Zardari is expected to hold important consultations with the party leaders to decide the party’s final course of action in the given situation. Sources…

Post-Sit-Ins: BNP weighing up options

by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023As long as it faced no street confrontation, BNP saw a huge success in its recent anti-government demonstrations. But because of the way Saturday’s sit-ins played out, the party high-ups are considering taking a step back from capital-centric anti-government programmes for now. According to some senior BNP leaders, programmes like sit-ins right after a mammoth rally were called too early. They said their Saturday’s demonstrations…

Like-minded parties join BNP’s showdown

report in The Daily Star, Dec 31, 2022The BNP and like-minded political parties have begun their simultaneous demonstrations with the former organising a large procession in the capital yesterday afternoon. Activists of the like-minded parties also organised processions in different parts of the city. The BNP and the other parties announced that they would hold a sit-in programme on January 11 in Dhaka and the other divisional cities to press home their 10-point demand that…