report in The News, November 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League (PMLN) supremo and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will undertake a one-day visit to Sialkot after returning from Quetta. It will be his first visit outside Lahore in Punjab. He has been invited for the visit by former federal minister and PMLN stalwart Khawaja Muhammad Asif. Sialkot has been a stronghold of the PMLN in recent years. Sources in the PMLN told The News here…
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The writer holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK.The issue of refugees is not new in Pakistan. Since its inception, the country has faced challenges in accommodating refugees from across the borders and even from faraway countries such as Myanmar. The first major influx of refugees started at the time of the partition of India and from Bengal and Punjab to Sindh, nearly all administrative units had to receive refugees in different proportions.…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 17, 2023Breaking away from its age-old tradition, the Awami League is going to introduce online collection and submission of its nomination forms for the upcoming national election slated for January. This means, nomination seekers will not require to come to Dhaka to collect and submit their forms. “Under the Awami League, Bangladesh has seen a great digital transformation. So, we will also have to make the Awami League digital,”…
by Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, Oct 15, 2023On November 20 last year, two death row convict militants, Abu Siddiq Sohel and Moinul Hasan Shamim, escaped from a Dhaka court with help from their associates. While being taken to prison, the convicts assaulted their police escort, untied themselves from shackles and fled on a motorcycle, never to be seen again. Almost a year has passed since that day, but police are yet to…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, October 13, 2023The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation of Afghanistan has announced that 26 Afghan citizens have been released from Pakistani prisons and returned to their country. The Ministry announced on Thursday on its social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that 26 Afghan citizens detained by Pakistani police have been released from custody in Pakistan. The Ministry has clarified that these 26 Afghan citizens, who…
report in The Daily Star, Sept 29, 2023The United States has said it expects that the government of Bangladesh will take all necessary actions to maintain the safety and security of all foreign missions and personnel in the country, including those from the US. “The United States values its relationship with Bangladesh,” US State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters at a regular briefing on Thursday, September 28. He, however, said he is not going…
report in The News, Sept 18, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was re-arrested in a terrorism case in Lahore immediately after an anti-corruption court discharged him from the Lahore Master Plan 2050 corruption case. Elahi was presented in the court in Lahore to get his physical remand by the ACE. However, the anti-corruption department failed to present any incriminating evidence against Elahi. The court earlier reserved its decision on the ACE’s request…
by Raheed Ejaz in Prothom Alo, Aug 25, 2023Exactly six years ago on this day (25 August), thousands of Rohingya men and women crossed the border over from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh, in a bid to save their lives. Over the next few months, at least 700,000 Rohingya crossed the Naf river and took shelter in Bangladesh, fleeing from the atrocities of the Myanmar armed forces. Even back then it had been feared that…