Short of according diplomatic recognition Pakistan has done everything possible to help the Taliban interim government feel its feet on the ground and function as a viable entity to help the Afghans move out of their bitter past and join the international community as an equal partner. But the response has been laconic, in that it wants recognition first and anything then, and thus the Pak-Afghan bilateralism falls short of fulfilment, conceding space to elements…
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By RAM KUMAR KAMAT in The Himalayan Times, Dec 2, 2022The process of forming a new government will start after the Election Commission submits the final parliamentary and provincial election results to the president. The EC can submit election result report to the head of state only after it completes counting of all ballot papers under the first-past-the-post and proportional representation system. The poll panel has yet to count FPTP ballot papers in Dolakha, Bajura,…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 1, 2022CK Raut, president of the Janamat Party, held talks with Nepali Congress leader Bimalendra Nidhi on Wednesday and offered to join the new ruling coalition. Nidhi confirmed to the Post about his meeting with Raut. Nidhi later visited Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and briefed him about his meeting with Raut. During their meeting at Baluwatar, Nidhi informed Deuba that Raut has offered to support the ruling coalition…
report in Khaama Press online, Nov 30, 2022Hina Rabbani Khar, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, stressed the imperative for the world community to engage “practically” with the caretaker Afghan government. According to a statement from the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday, November 29, the Pakistani official Hina Rabbani Khar undertook a one-day official visit to Afghanistan where she met with the current Afghan administration’s several authorities. The Pakistani top official,…
Editorial in Dawn, November 29th, 2022OF recent, leaders from the ruling PML-N have been dropping hints about a possible delay in general elections after the incumbent government completes its term in August 2023. The strongest signal in this regard came from Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, who told a TV channel that National Assembly elections could be delayed for six months to give ‘relief’ to the masses. Meanwhile, the prime minister’s special assistant on overseas Pakistanis,…
report in The Daily Star, Nov 29, 2022BNP will announce a set of programmes during its December 10 rally to ensure that the government steps down, said BNP Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday. He made the remarks while addressing a roundtable titled “Strengthening Democracy in Bangladesh and the Role of International Community”, held at Jatiya Press Club. Mosharraf said, “The government will see a mass uprising and united movement. It will be ousted…
Khan’s new war game
by Zahid Hussain in Dawn, November 30th, 2022The writer is an author and journalist.IMRAN Khan’s latest change of tack has caught his opponents by surprise. For months, the federal government had braced itself for a siege, and was reinforcing security around the capital. But the PTI’s decision to call off the march and dissolve the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa assemblies has changed the entire scenario. It all happened on the eve of the change of…