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Nawaz censures judges for legitimising dictators

Report in Dawn, December 20th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday lashed out at judges for legitimising military dictators and taking action against elected prime ministers. “Judges garland the ones (military dictators) who break the Constitution, rather they legitimise their rule. When the parliament is dissolved and the prime minister is sent to jail, they (judges) endorse these actions,” Mr Sharif said while addressing the ticket aspirants from Faisalabad at the party secretariat in…

As elected unopposed chief, Gohar urges SC to give PTI its rights back

Report in Pakistan Today, Dec 3, 2023ISLAMABAD: Newly elected PTI Chairman Gohar Ali Khan has urged the Supreme Court to get the party’s rights back. Talking to the media after being elected the party chief on Saturday morning, the lawyer also requested the chief justice of Pakistan not to return his official vehicles. He further said that the people’s voices should be heard, adding that this time they would be. He added that he would…

President ‘will administer oath to Nawaz’ if elected PM

By Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn November 17, 2023ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has said he would administer the oath to PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif if elected prime minister for the fourth time in the upcoming elections. In an interview with VOA Urdu, President Alvi said he would “comply with the constitutional requirements” of administering the oath to the elected prime minister. In April 2022, President Alvi excused to administer the oath to Mr Nawaz’s…

Govt eyes $11bn aid from China, Saudi Arabia amid crunch

by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, Sept 29th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking around $11bn in bilateral support from China and Saudi Arabia as the caretakers push for expanding the tax net effectively to retail, agricultural and real estate sectors while continuing a crackdown on illegal currency movements to fill external and domestic resource gaps so that the IMF programme remains on track to ensure economic stability until an elected government takes power. This was part of…

MP Hajara: Discrimination Remnants Persist in Society

report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 10, 2023Member of Parliament Prabhu Hajara joined the Communist Party three and a half decades ago to end discrimination against the Dalit community in the society. He currently represents the CPN (UML) in the House of Representatives after being elected under the proportional representation (PR) election system. MP Hajara says that there was a lot of discrimination in the society towards the Dalit community in the past but many changes have…

JSP vows to lobby for directly elected president and fully proportional parliament

Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 27, 2023The Janata Samajbadi Party is set to adopt a policy of lobbying for the directly elected presidential system in the country. The Madhesh-based party has also set its goal to fight for establishing a Parliament with fully proportional representation. Presenting a draft statute of the party on Sunday, JSP chair Upendra Yadav proposed the aforementioned form of governance for deliberations among party delegates during its statute convention that…

Khairuzzaman Liton re-elected Rajshahi city mayor

report in Prothom Alo, 22 June 2023The ruling Awami League mayoral candidate, AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, was elected as the mayor of the Rajshahi City Corporation for the third term. Khairuzzaman Liton beat Murshid Alam of Islami Andolon securing 160,290 votes in 155 centres. The returning officer of the Rajshahi city corporation election Delwar Hossain announced the unofficial election results on Wednesday at 9:00 pm. According to the result, AHM Khairuzzaman bagged 160,290 votes while his…

Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav wins Vice President race:

Report in The Kathmandu Post, March 18, 2023 at 07:01Ram Sahay Prasad Yadav of the Janata Samajbadi Party has been elected as the new Vice President of Nepal. Out of the total 52,628 weighted votes, Ram Sahay secured 30,328 while Asta Laxmi Shakya of the CPN-UML received 16,328 and Mamata Jha of the Janamat Party got 2,537 in an election held on Friday. Fifty-two-year-old Ram Sahay garnered 58.02 percent of the votes, while his closest…

Madhesh as the flagbearer of federalism has some way to go to cement gains

by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, .January 14th, 2023Even though all seven provincial assemblies have elected their chief ministers who are now busy picking ministers, people appear more curious about the composition of the new Cabinet in the Madhesh province. That is so for a number of reasons. First, there has been a significant change in the power equation in Madhesh after the November 20 polls with previously dominant regional forces losing ground and…

RPP not in hurry to join govt: Chair Lingden

report in The Himalayan Times, Dec 20, 2022KATHMANDU: Chairperson of the Rastriya Prajantra Party (RPP), Rajendra Lingden, has said his party was not in a hurry to join government. He said it during a programme organized to welcome and congratulate the newly elected lawmakers from RPP. He however said RPP has not vowed to stay away from government either. Party’s agenda and values would be set gradually and it would take decision on time, Lingden…