By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Aug 30, 2023 at 9:52 PMThe acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that weakening the Afghan government will harm everyone and that the international community has assured the Islamic Emirate that they don’t support the armed resistance against the interim government. Speaking at a large gathering of religious clerics and influential figures of the country, Muttaqi said that Afghan soil is not a threat to any country…
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by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, August 31st, 2023ISLAMABAD: General elections would be held by mid-February at any cost, perhaps by late January if the delimitation of constituencies is completed earlier, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) assured the Awami National Party (ANP) on Wednesday, allaying fears that polls could be delayed indefinitely to extend the interim government’s tenure. The assurance was given during a consultative meeting between the ECP and an ANP delegation to…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 25, 2023The government on May 9 registered a bill to amend some Nepal Acts in the House of Representatives. The bill seeks to revise 80 Acts—around a third of the country’s total. With the single bill, the government is preparing to amend the Acts related to criminal office, forest use, environment protection, university education—and what not. In case of minor revisions, there is a practice of amending…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha & Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 23, 2023Police on Tuesday recommended prosecuting 238 people including former ministers, senior bureaucrats and middlemen in the infamous Lalita Niwas land grab scam on charges of organised crime and forgery of government documents. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police submitted its investigation report to the District Attorney’s Office Kathmandu, which will now decide how many of them will be prosecuted. The…
report in Khaama Press online, August 22, 2023A U.N. report released Tuesday reveals that over 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have occurred since the Taliban’s takeover two years ago. According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the group most targeted by the Taliban have been individuals who were previously part of the army, police, and intelligence forces. Between August 15, 2021 (when the Taliban took control), and…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 22, 2023With just one month to go for Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s scheduled visit to China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working to finalise the visit’s agenda in coordination with various government agencies. Dahal is scheduled to visit China straight from New York on September 22 after addressing the 78th session of the United Nations general assembly. The prime minister is scheduled to address the…
By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Aug 20, 2023 at 8:29 PMThe Deputy Defense Minister, Mohammad Qassim Farsad, said that the neighboring countries of Afghanistan are not returning aircrafts that were taken there during the collapse of the former government. He said their failure to do so is due to pressure by the US. Speaking at a press conference reporting on the annual activities of the Defense Ministry, he said that the number of these aircraft…
By Mitra Majeedy in Tolo News, Aug 19, 2023 at 11:36 AMFormer ambassadors of Canada and Australia said they consider it important to interact with the current Afghan government. Arif Lalani, a former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan, said it is time for diplomats to return to Kabul and deal with the Islamic Emirate. “We never should have left,” Arif Lalani told CTV News. “Even if we don’t get much, certainly we’re better off being on…
By Shakeel Anjum in The News, August 20, 2023Islamabad : The statistics compiled by the Ministry of Interior, indicate that over one million illegal or undocumented Afghans are living in Pakistan. Most of the illegal Afghans are neither law neither abiding nor living quietly without creating difficulties for the government but creating unrest in the society by their involvement in criminal activities, a report said. “It is disturbing to mention that several armed Afghan migrants…
report in Dawn, August 19th, 2023HYDERABAD: Representatives of the Commission for Inter-Faith Harmony have urged Chief Justice of Pakistan, Chief of Army Staff and other government functionaries to form a commission to probe the tragic Jaranwala incident. Fathers Danial Fayaz, Jamil Albert, Shahzad Khokhar, James Castloino and others said at a press conference at local press club on Friday that if perpetrators of such crimes had been punished in the past, the Jaranwala incident would…