AFP Report in Dawn, April 3rd, 2023LONDON: Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman on Sunday said the UK government was “in negotiations” after three British men were detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Media reports have identified the men as charity medic Kevin Cornwell, 53, the unnamed manager of a hotel for aid workers and YouTuber Miles Routledge. “The government is in negotiations and working hard to ensure people’s safety is upheld,” Braverman told Sky News.…
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By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, April 01, 2023As the country’s economy faces multiple challenges including low growth, slump in market demand, high inflation and troubled government finance, Nepal appointed an economic expert as finance minister on Friday. Nepali Congress spokesperson Prakash Sharan Mahat, who holds a PhD in Economics from the US-based Southern Illinois University, was given the role in the latest Cabinet expansion. He has the responsibility to fix the broken…
by Ruwani Fonseka in The Morning, Mar 28, 2023I would like to state that the next Government will be led by the United National Party (UNP) under the leadership of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, said the assistant leader of the UNP, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam. He mentioned this at a UNP public gathering held in Kurunegala yesterday (27). “There are no queues for petrol and gas and no power interruptions, prices of good have been reduced recently…
Report in TOLOnews, March 26, 2023 at 7:17 PMPakistan Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch called on the Afghan interim government to take steps against “terrorist entities and to ensure that they do not pose a threat to Pakistani people and Pakistani security forces.” Speaking at a press conference, Baloch said they are in “contact with the Afghan interim authorities on security and counter-terrorism matters including our concerns regarding terrorist entities which have hideouts in…
by Ruwani Fonseka in The Morning, Mar 27, 2023The 2023 Local Government (LG) election is likely to be postponed once again, as per sources within the Election Commission. Earlier in a special gazette notification, dated January 30, 2023, issued by the respective District Returning Officers for the LG bodies of each district, it was announced that the LG election would be held on March 09. However, the LG election was later deferred as the government…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, March 25,2023 at 7:49 PMThe Islamic Emirate spokesperson said that “some countries that failed in Afghanistan” over the past 20 years are preventing the current Afghan government from interacting with the international community. The Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a number of countries are still eager to interact with the current Afghan government. “The countries that failed in Afghanistan, and the countries that shamefully left, they did not…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews Online, March 20,2023 at 8:29 PMAt the turn of the solar year, no country has officially recognized the interim government of the Islamic Emirate, however, its diplomats have been sent to some consulates and embassies of regional countries. The Afghanistan consulate in Istanbul and the Afghan embassy in Tehran were handed over to the Islamic Emirate. “The leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to send a team…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 18, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is set to seek a vote of confidence in the House on Monday and plans to expand his Cabinet by the week’s end. A meeting of the 10 political parties supporting the government on Saturday decided to give Dahal their vote of confidence. The meeting also decided to back a bill to amend the Enforced Disappeared Persons and Truth and Reconciliation…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 18, 2023With the elections of the President and the Vice President, the prime minister is now geared up to give a full shape to his Cabinet where two-thirds of the seats have been vacant since the CPN-UML, Rastriya Swatantra Party and Rastriya Prajatantra Party pulled out of the government last month. The prime minister is currently holding 16 of the total 21 ministerial portfolios. Prior to…