By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press, May 30, 2023Several related economic activities are involved in Afghanistan drug trafficking. Cartels maintain a symbiotic relationship with the Taliban by giving farmers advances to plant ephedra and opium while providing the financial assistance necessary to keep the jihadist proto-state alive. These cartels use Pakistani sources to facilitate the acquisition of chemicals required to produce drugs. In addition, diverse nationalities are used as hostages until their cartels can afford…
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By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 25, 2023Madhesh politics is simmering. Discontent has grown within the ruling coalition about the Madhesh government’s expansion. CPN (Maoist Centre), Janamat Party, and Loktantrik Samajbadi Party have been saying that their members have not been fairly represented in power-sharing arrangements. The parliamentary party of the Maoist Centre has even decided to recall its two ministers from the Madhesh Cabinet. Only the Nepali Congress and CPN (Unified Socialist)…
Report in TOLOnews, May 18, 2023 at 10:56 PMIran’s President Ebrahim Raisi said that the current Afghan government should ensure Iran’s water rights of the Helmand River based on international treaties, Iranian media reported. Addressing reporters during a visit to Sistan and Balouchestan province on Thursday, Raisi said the current Afghan authorities should “immediately” provide Iran with its share of water. “I will remind the rulers of Afghanistan that they should not regard our demand…
report in Dhaka Tribune, May 17, 2023BNP has called upon the country’s people to boycott the upcoming elections to five city corporations under the current government. BNP standing committee at their virtual meeting on Monday made the call to vote to implement the party’s earlier decision of not participating in the five city polls to be conducted by the current Election Commissioner under the Awami League government. “The meeting feels that the City Corporation elections…
report in Daily FT, 2 May 2023President and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday extended a direct invitation to the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) to join and form a government. “During the last election, some MPs from the SJB chose to abstain from voting. We all share the same goal of building an open economy. Therefore, let us unite and work together by forming a parliament and a government,” Wickremesinghe told the UNP’s May…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, May 02, 2023The wirter is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.All eyes are now on the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) after it trounced the big political parties in two of the three constituencies in the recently-concluded bypolls. The party has given continuity to its support to the Pushpa Kamal Dahal-led government. With the RSP chair Rabi Lamichhane and Prime Minister Dahal holding two back-to-back talks,…
report in Daily Mirror online, 1 May 2023Civil rights groups, Trade Unions and members of political parties gathering under one banner yesterday warned the government to face a massive people’s struggle in the future if the punitive Prevention of Terrorism Act is not abolished and the Anti-Terrorism Act is not torn up. A large group of civil rights activists, trade unions, student movements and representatives of the opposition political parties gathering along with the Inter-University…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, April 29, 2023The government’s plan to distribute cash relief to disqualified former Maoist combatants has entered Parliament, but no ruling party appears ready to take ownership of the plan. Discussing the matter in the House, several parliamentarians have asked the government to halt the cash relief to disqualified former Maoist combatants who are set to receive Rs200,000 per head. Interestingly, ruling Nepali Congress lawmakers have joined the main opposition CPN-UML…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 29, 2023After the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) won two out of three seats in the by-elections, its chairman Rabi Lamichhane, who took the oath of office and secrecy as a newly-elected lawmaker, said on Friday that his party isn’t thinking of joining the government in its current set-up. With the RSP emerging from the April 23 by-elections with an increased strength, all eyes are now on…
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…
By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews, April 25, 2023 at 12:29 AMThe Chargé d’affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq, said that the recognition of Afghanistan’s interim government is not on the agenda of the UN meeting on Afghanistan Naseer Ahmad Faiq, in an interview with the BBC, said that the meeting will discuss a united framework of the international community regarding political, economic, and social issues in Afghanistan. “In this…