By Rana Ghulam Qadir in The News, Nov 22, 2023ISLAMABAD: The caretaker federal government has taken the final decision to remove IG Islamabad Police Dr Akbar Nasir Khan and Deputy Commissioner Irfan Nawaz Memon from their posts and there will be no further delay in this regard. Irfan Nawaz Memon is a Grade 19 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service while D. Akbar Nasir Khan is a Grade 20 officer of the Police Service. In…
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By Fatema Adeeb in TOLOnews Online, Nov 14, 2023 at 8:35 PMInternational Crisis Group’s expert Ibraheem Bahiss, in a “Q and A” released by ICG stated that Pakistan’s policy to deport Afghan refugees “could bring further trouble to the region,” notwithstanding Islamabad’s efforts to justify itself on security grounds. According to Bahiss, despite the immediate outcry from the UN and other international bodies, Islamabad seems intent on forcing all undocumented Afghans back to their home…
By Rameez Khan in the ExpressTribune, Nov 9, 2023ISLAMABAD: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to fly to Balochistan next week to further expand his party’s alliances with regional players, whereas PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will also visit Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa a few days later in a bid to cobble up some support for the next elections. The PML-N on Tuesday formed an alliance with the MQM-P and announced reaching out to other players in Sindh.Now it…
report in DSaily FT, Oct 23, 2023Sri Lanka’s main export engine, apparel, saw its shipments plunge further in September worsening the sector’s status quo. Apparel exports in September were down sharply by 26% to $ 332 million whilst performance in the first nine months was down by 20.5% to $ 3.4 billion. “September was a bad month. The industry was hoping to see some signs of slight recovery but that may now be October at…
Report in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which has been consistently vocal against attempts to delay the polls beyond the January timeline set by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), on Sunday took issue with the demand — coming from the PML-N and JUI-F — to postpone the elections even further. In a statement, PPP leader and former deputy NA speaker Faisal Karim Kundi said the ECP was bound by the…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Sept 21, 2023 is reported to have stood his ground, refusing to allocate any more Cabinet portfolios despite persistent requests from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Daily Mirror learns. The president has continuously resisted requests to increase the size of the Cabinet even despite some MPs such as S.B. Dissanayake warning to explore ways to topple the government. The position has been taken over concerns that such a…
Editorial in The Nation, July 8, 2023On Thursday, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament took notice of the leakage of citizens’ data by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), directing the interior ministry to investigate the matter. Even though data security issues have been around for a while, the matter has gained further attention with the information of military officials being leaked, highlighting how serious the threat is and how it continues to…