By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Dec 20, 2023Re-elected leader of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) and its founder Basil Rajapaksa (BR) declared last week that the party would definitely win the next national election. The boastful prediction was made at the second convention of the party held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium on Dec 15, two days after the SLPP voted for President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s (RW) Budget for 2024, presented…
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by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, Nov 4, 2023BNP’s leaders and activists are worried about the senior leaders of the party being arrested one after the other. Most of the leaders are in hiding at present, in order to avoid arrest. There is concern in the party as to what direction the movement will take in the days to come if things continue in this manner. The arrest of the important BNP presidium member Amir…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai, in TOLOnews, June 27, 2023 at 8:54 PMSpeaking at a press conference, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said that Beijing hopes the Afghan interim government will take more solid steps in the direction that serves the interests of the Afghan people and meets the expectations of the international community, “so as to gain more understanding, trust and support from the rest of the world.” She made the remarks…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, June 17, 2023Jatiya Party (JaPa), under the leadership of GM Quader, for quite some time now has been actively endeavouring to build up slightly ‘different’ and ‘independent’ anti-government stand in politics. The government, however, has its misgivings and is reluctant to allow JaPa to move in that direction. Speaking to several leaders of Jatiya Party, it has been learnt that the top level of the government wants JaPa to…
report in The Express Tribune, Jan 8, 2023KARACHI: Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, chief of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), has said that his group is “open to guidance” from Pakistan’s religious scholars if they believe “the direction of our jihad” is wrong. In a video message addressed to the religious scholars, Noor Wali Mehsud, who also uses the nom de guerre of Abu Mansour Asim, sought to justify the TTP’s violent campaign against “the international…