by Malik Asad in Dawn, August 22nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: A special court, established on Monday to hear the cases filed under the Official Secrets Act, handed over former foreign minister and vice chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Shah Mehmood Qureshi to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on a four-day physical remand in the cipher case. Mr Qureshi is named in the First Information Report (FIR) registered against him under the Official Secrets Act. The federal government…
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by Rameez Khan in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2023.LAHORE ‘: Amid rumours of PML-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif’s likely return to Pakistan, former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif on Sunday jetted off to London. The announcement of Shehbaz’s departure to London was made by party Central Information Secretary Marriyum Aurangzeb on her official X account. During his stay, Shehbaz will meet his brother Nawaz to discuss various political issues. A plan regarding Nawaz’s return to Pakistan…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 19, 2023On Thursday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he will make his Maoist party better and stronger in the next three months just like in 2008, when the former rebel party had emerged as the largest force in the legislature within two years of its joining mainstream politics. Dahal, the chief of the CPN (Maoist Centre), said he would achieve such transformation by successfully taking…
report in The Island, Aug 6, 2023Japan has asked Sri Lanka to secure a debt restructure deal with China before any discussion on reviving the Light Rail Transit (LRT) project scrapped by former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, diplomatic sources said. Foreign minister Yoshimasa Hayashi made it clear during his brief visit to Colombo last week for talks with President Ranil Wickremesinghe that priority must be clinching a debt deal with Beijing before the end of August.…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Daily Morning, July 21, 2023Claiming that President Ranil Wickremesinghe is enjoying power based on the mandate given by the people to former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) stated that the former has no moral right to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which was not implemented by all his predecessors from J.R. Jayewardene to Rajapaksa. During a meeting with Parliamentarians representing the Tamil community…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, June 11th, 2023GWADAR: Armed men gunned down the brother-in-law of a former provincial minister as well as a senior police officer on Saturday. Abdul Qayyum Buledi was shot dead by men riding a motorcycle while he was sitting outside his home. “Qayyum Buledi died on the spot after receiving multiple bullet injuries,” a Levies official said. He was brother-in-law of Zahoor Buledi, an ex-finance minister of Balochistan…. In another incident,…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 10, 2023Revoking last week’s decision of its administration to scrap a writ petition of former child Maoist combatants, the Supreme Court has ordered its staffers to register the petition that demands prosecution of the then Maoist supreme commander Pushpa Kamal Dahal, now the country’s prime minister, and the then ‘people’s government’ chief Baburam Bhattarai, who also is a former prime minister. A single bench of Justice Anand…
By Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, May 26, 2023Police on Thursday said their investigation into the high-profile Bhutanese refugee scam continues even after the District Attorney Office Kathmandu prosecuted 30 persons including former ministers and top officials at the District Court, Kathmandu on Wednesday. The prosecutions were based on a police investigation report the attorney’s office received on Monday. “Our investigation is not over,” Kathmandu Police Range Chief Senior Superintendent of Police Dan Bahadur…
By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews Online, April 26, 2023 at 10:30 PMThe Islamic Emirate reacted to the Vienna meeting, saying that the officials of the former government should not promote war in Afghanistan. A three-day meeting among some Afghan politicians and former government’s officials was held in Vienna. “It will not plunge into war and chaos again and fragment. Those who are gathered in Vienna, those are the people who have been tested once in…
report in The Morning, Apr 18, 2023Despite possessing enviable social indicators at the time of its’ Independence in 1948, Sri Lanka, at 75, is a “failed state”, former two-time President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga claimed on 16 April. “Seventy-five years is a long time for a nation to achieve considerable progress. Even after 450 years of destruction by colonial rulers, at Independence, Sri Lanka possessed some of the best socio economic indicators. Today, at 75, Sri…
Report in Dawn, April 15th, 2023HYDERABAD: Unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants gunned down son of a former superintendent of police in Qasimabad phase-I late on Thursday night. Arsalan alias Naveed Jamali, son of Ahmed Khan Jamali, was sitting outside a friend’s house along with two other friends when four assailants on two motorcycles shot at him six to seven times after confirming his identity, leaving him dead. He was taken to Liaquat University Hospital’s city branch where…