by Baqir Sajjad Syed in Dawn, December 31st, 2023ISLAMABAD: Mullah Sherin Akhund, a senior Afghan Taliban figure and governor of Kandahar province, is expected to arrive in Islamabad early next month in a fresh bid to resolve the stalemate in bilateral ties over the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) issue. Mullah Sherin’s interactions in Islamabad will include meetings with intelligence and Foreign Office officials. The visit follows efforts by the Afghan Taliban to reduce tensions with…
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By Rafiq Mangat in The News, December 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: An election will be held in early 2024, at which the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) expects a victory for the coalition, led by the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN), under former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, “with help from the military, despite widespread discontent with the government’s austerity measures”. The EIU says in its assessment the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party will lose. “Domestic protests will intensify,…
By Murtaza Ali Shah & Sher Ali Khalti in The News, Oct 07, 2023LAHORE/LONDON: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) supremo and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif still has heart problems and needs continuous monitoring, says a fresh medical report submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday, just days before his expected arrival to the country. The PMLN leader was allowed by the high court in November 2019 to go abroad on health grounds after…
report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 28, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he had felt that the China visit was more successful than he had expected. Addressing a programme organized by Nepali Consulate General here in the course of his China visit, PM Dahal, argued that the success of his China visit would be a matter of interest. “I was wondering how the China visit would be as I arrived here directly from the US.…