Report in The Daily Star, Oct 09, 2023The pre-election assessment delegation from the US has wanted to know what steps the government had taken to hold free and fair elections. The mission neither mentioned participatory elections nor the polls-time government, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen told reporters after meeting the six-member delegation at his office yesterday. The delegates arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a six-day visit. Today, the mission is scheduled to meet representatives…
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report in Dawn, October 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The government on Friday doubled down on its policy to evict all illegal immigrants — including around 1.7 million Afghan refugees — from the country, saying that the decision was in line with international practices. Meanwhile, as law enforcement agencies continued their crackdown on people they call ‘illegal aliens’, a sizeable number of families have been crossing the border into Afghanistan over the past week. “No country allows illegal…
report in Daily FT,, 23 September 2023The Lawyers’ Collective, a civil society group consisting of legal practitioners in Sri Lanka issued a statement yesterday condemning the recently proposed Anti-Terrorism and Online Safety Bills which were published through gazette announcements this year. The collective said the Government has failed to respond to the serious and fundamental concerns raised about the Anti-Terrorist Bill and adopt any transparent and accountable process through which the bills were explained, justified…
by Abdullah Momand in Dawn, August 31, 2023Interim Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani said on Wednesday that the Afghan government had arrested some perpetrators of terror attacks in Pakistan and informed the authorities in Islamabad. Jilani shared this in response to a question about cross-border terrorism while speaking to reporters at the Foreign Office. The minister’s statement comes as Pakistan continues to face terror incidents — which have been on the rise since the banned…
By Saman Indrajith in The Island, Aug 14, 2023JVP leader and NPP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake, during a recent probe by the COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises), said he got 224 copies of letters sent by the Office of the Minister of Mahaweli to officials, asking them to release Mahaweli land to the cronies of the government. “I want to know the procedure followed by the Mahaweli Authority when releasing the Mahaweli lands to private…
report in Prothom Alo, Jul 18,2023Questions have arisen over the election commission giving registration to two unknown political parties, especially before the forthcoming parliamentary election. Questions have also arisen as to whether the constitutionally independent body is operating at the behest of the government. A total of 93 parties submitted applications seeking registration from the EC. The EC decided to give registration to Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM) and Bangladesh Supreme Party (BSP). The election commission…
report in Prothom Alo, Jul 10, 2023Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would make an announcement of one-point demand to oust the government from a rally in front of the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters in Dhaka on Wednesday (12 July). The party has sought a permission from the police to hold the rally. Different alliances and parties that are also waging simultaneous movement with the de facto opposition will also make the announcement of the one-point…
report in The Himalayan Times, Jun 29, 2023KATHMANDU, JUNE 28: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said the government’s investigation into fake Bhutanese refugee scam proved that nobody was above the law. Responding to lawmakers’ queries on the budgetary allocation, the PM said from the rostrum of the House of Representatives that there was an impression in society that VIPs were above the law, but the government proved that wrong in the fake Bhutanese refugee…
report in Prothom Alo, June 27, 2023 BNP will soon launch their one-point movement to oust the current government, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. Talking to newsmen at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, the BNP leader also said that a suitable and acceptable framework for a polls-time neutral government will come out through discussions with all stakeholders to hold the next election in a fair and credible manner. “We’re basically on a…
report in Nepalnews.com, June 25, 2023 at 19:16 hrsDeputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha clarified that the government had not issued any permission for installation of siren at Kechanakawal in Jhapa district and border outpost (BOP) in Sunsari district. Responding to the queries raised by parliamentarians in today’s meeting of the House of Representatives, DPM Shrestha assured that the government would leave no stone unturned to further manage the no-man’s-land and make…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee/ Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, June 13, 2023Leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami gathering at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh, in the capital ahead of their rally yesterday afternoon. Dhaka (south) city Jamaat held the rally to press home the party’s three-point demand, including the next national polls under a caretaker government. Photo: Amran Hossain Saturday’s rally of Jamaat-e-Islami in the capital after a decade has raised many eyebrows and…