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 Syed Irfan Raza | Kalbe Ali in Dawn, November 22nd, 2023• Fazl says will move forward with PML-N; Sana says talking to JUI-F on KP alliance• Bilawal flays PML-N, PTI as ‘elite-centric’, vows to implement NFC Award ISLAMABAD: As the political arena heats up in the lead-up to elections, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman after a meeting with PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday announced that both parties have reached a seat adjustment…
Bureau Report in Dawn, October 21st, 2023PESHAWAR: Two former provincial ministers were reportedly arrested and several others managed to escape as police launched a fresh crackdown on the leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday. PTI workers and family members claimed that police arrested former minister for higher education Kamran Bangash while raids were conducted on the houses of former ministers and lawmakers in Peshawar. In Bajaur tribal district, police arrested former provincial…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, October 3, 2023Nepali Congress General Secretary Gagan Thapa on Sunday proposed that all Congress ministers be recalled from the government. Thapa’s statement comes a week after the end of the party’s central working committee meeting. He is yet to officially make any such proposal at party meetings. “Let’s allow the Socialist Front to run the government,” Thapa said at a function on Sunday, referring to the political bloc…
report in The Express tribune, Sept 6, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Tuesday passed a resolution, urging President Arif Alvi to fulfil his constitutional responsibility and announce a date for the general elections as the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) insists on pushing the polls beyond the constitutional deadline in order to conduct fresh delimitation of constituencies. During a meeting, attended by chairmen and vice chairmen of the executive committees of bar councils…
report in The Expreess Tribune, Aug 29, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) remained at the centre of conflicting viewpoints as discussions with mainstream political parties continued on Monday, with the Jamat-e-Islami advocating for polls to be conducted within 90 days, while the MQM-P pushing for fresh delimitations. According to a press release issued by the ECP, the electoral watchdog held separate meetings with the leaders of both parties to discuss various aspects of…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post,August 18, 2023Former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai, one of the ideologues of the Maoist insurgency, has warned of another conflict if the regular courts started to look into conflict-era cases. In his response to the Supreme Court in a case related to the use of child soldiers in the insurgency, the former vice-chair of the Maoist party said the regular court processes cannot ensure transitional justice and therefore…
report in Prothom Alo, May 19, 2023BNP will stage marches in all cities, except the capital, on 23 and 28 May. The party’s senior joint secretary general, Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, announced the schedule at a press conference on Thursday at its central office at Naya Paltan. However, the 10-day rallies that began on Wednesday across the districts, including Dhaka city, will continue, protesting the price hikes and demanding the resignation of the government and elections…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, Apr 21, 2023 at 02:18 pmArchbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today called for a fresh and transparent probe into Easter Sunday attacks and said justice cannot be expected from the incumbent President or the government. “We need a fresh and transparent probe which is directed towards finding out as to why the repeated prior warnings on the Easter Sunday attacks were not taken seriously, to…
by Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, Mar 17, 2023The question of foreign interference into the internal affairs of Bangladesh has come up for discussion again. This has started with a remark by Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen. In an event in Dhaka on Tuesday, Yao Wen said China supports the stance Bangladesh has taken in rejecting foreign interference in internal affairs. Is there any interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh? This question has…