By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 28, 2023The Afghanistan envoy to Islamabad was summoned to Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday in response to a recent terrorist attack. They were tasked with ensuring action against groups in Afghanistan conducting terrorist attacks against Pakistan. The attack targeted a security forces convoy in Bannu district on Sunday, allegedly carried out by an Afghan national. Pakistan has claimed that the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group…
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Report in Dawn, Nov 21st, 2023NOWSHERA: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday urged the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) and the chief election commissioner (CEC) to play their role in ensuring fair elections so that no one could question their legitimacy. “State institutions should play their role within the constitutional framework to ensure free, fair and impartial elections to steer the country out of the existing economic crisis,” the PPP chairman said while addressing party…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, November 7th, 2023WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Monday that the United States was committed to ensuring that the next elections in Pakistan would be free and fair, benefiting the Pakistani people. However, when questioned about the potential exclusion of a prominent leader like Imran Khan due to his imprisonment, the department’s principal deputy spokesperson, Vedant Patel, mentioned they “did not have an assessment on the makeup of candidates…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 09, 2023The pre-election assessment delegation from the US has wanted to know what steps the government had taken to hold free and fair elections. The mission neither mentioned participatory elections nor the polls-time government, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters after meeting the six-member delegation at his office yesterday. The delegates arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a six-day visit. Today, the mission is scheduled to meet representatives…