By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 01, 2023The writer covers parliamentary affairs and human rights for The Kathmandu Post.Over eight months after the federal parliament endorsed the amendment bill on the Citizenship Act for the second time, President Ramchandra Paudel on Wednesday authenticated the bill—the same one that his predecessor twice refused to authenticate. Paudel decided to authenticate the bill after repeated requests from the government followed by a series of consultations with…
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By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, May 24, 2023While the federal government is in the final leg of preparing the national budget for the next fiscal year, the government of Sudurpaschim Province is putting pressure on Kathmandu to increase the federal grant going to the province. A committee led by Sudurpaschim Chief Minister Kamal Shah met Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat and the Vice-chairperson of the National Planning Commission…
AFP report, Feb 23, 2023KABUL: Taliban authorities called on Washington on Wednesday to return $3.5 billion belonging to Afghanistan´s central bank after a New York federal judge ruled the families of victims in the 9/11 attacks cannot seize the funds. The United States took control of the assets soon after the Taliban stormed back to power in Afghanistan in 2021, with President Joe Biden saying the money could be made available to the families of…
by Agha Iqrar Haroon in Pakistan Today, Jan 23, 2023(The writer is an international award winning journalist who has been in the field since 1988 and appears in national and international media as analyst and political scientist)On January 19, in response to the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) directive to provide details with regards to Toshakhana gifts, the PML(N)-led Federal Government excused itself from complying with the orders, arguing that it may lead to damaging Pakistan’s…