By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 4, 2023The Taliban administration in Afghanistan considers one of its achievements in the past two years to be a reduction in conflicts and the establishment of overall security. While this claim is not entirely unfounded when it comes to armed confrontations, the question remains whether the security of citizens is truly guaranteed with a decrease in hostilities between opposing groups. Are people now able to continue…
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By Mushtaq Paracha in The News, November 17, 2023NOWSHERA: Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUIF) chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman said on Thursday that the civil and military establishments, landlords and industrialists had occupied the country’s politics due to which the people did not enjoy fruits of true independence. “Pakistan came into existence in the name of Islam 75 years ago but the establishment, bureaucracy, landlords and industrialists have always created hurdles in the way of enforcing religion in…
report in Nepalnews.com, Nov 16, 2023Helpless cow protection campaign has demanded the establishment of Kanji House, a shelter for animals, in every local level to expand the Kathmandu Valley as a helpless cattle free zone. The campaign has been doing legal advocacy to end the trend of leaving cattle stranded in the streets. Expressing pleasure over the construction of a Kanji House in Dakshankali by the Kathmandu Metropolitan City, the campaign chair Uttam Pudasaini urged…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, November 12th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, apparently perturbed at being tagged by his opponents as ladla (blue-eyed) and his party a ‘favourite’ of the military establishment, asked party’s new manifesto committee to address this matter while finalising it later this month. On the other hand, PML-N has defended its current equation with the powers that be, wondering why such a question is being raised now when the party had…
By Imran Ayub in Dawn, November 9th, 2023KARACHI: A gulf between the PML-N and PPP appeared to widen on Wednesday, with the Pakistan People’s Party accusing its past ally of abandoning the vote ko izzat do narrative and being in cahoots with “selectors” — a term the party used to refer to the establishment for allegedly supporting ex-premier Imran Khan. With such overt criticism, the PPP probably for the first time since the dissolution of…
by Sahan Tennekoon in Daily Morning, Nov 1, 2023The Cabinet of Ministers on Monday (30 October) has granted approval to the joint statement on the establishment of an international organisation for mediation proposed by the Chinese Government. Speaking at the weekly Cabinet media briefing yesterday (31 October), Cabinet Spokesperson Dr. Bandula Gunawardana said that the Cabinet has granted approval to the said statement, considering it as a timely proposal which strengthens cooperation between partners of…
Shehbaz’s London trip ‘preserves party-establishment’ tiesby Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 30, 2023LAHORE: PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif returned from London on Thursday, reportedly after managing to persuade his elder brother Nawaz Sharif “not to disturb the ideal equation of the party with the establishment”. Mr Shehbaz had to skedaddle back to London within 48 hours of his arrival in the country following Mr Nawaz’s hard-hitting speech on Sept 18, in which he demanded accountability for…
report in Prothom Alo, 05 Apr 2023A mass grave thought to be related to the country’s liberation war was found while workers were digging earth for construction of an establishment in Mohammadpur upazila of Magura district on Tuesday, reports UNB. The workers said they spotted human bones, skulls and teeth during the digging for the construction of the agricultural gears conservation building adjacent to the old hall room inside the upazila parishad. Locals claimed that…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Feb 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Political leaders on both sides of the political divide showed unprecedented unity on two occasions during the last few years but were not prepared to sit together, even to save the country from default. In 2019, the then PTI-led coalition government gave three-year extension to the then army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa. After the Supreme Court’s surprised intervention seeking enactment of a law to…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022Following the defeat of Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa to party chief Sher Bahadur Deuba in the race for parliamentary party leadership on Wednesday, the party’s dissident faction led by Shekhar Koirala and Thapa has decided to assert itself against the establishment faction in the days ahead. After losing the contest to Deuba with a margin of 39 votes, Thapa told reporters that he wouldn’t…