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Still have time to hold talks to get out of crisis: Moyeen tells AL

Report in The Daily Star, Dec 30, 2023BNP Standing Committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan today said time is still there for the Awami League-led government to hold talks with political parties to get out of the political crisis. He also urged the ruling party to do politics understanding the character and psychological traits of the people of Bangladesh. He made the remarks while addressing the inaugural function of the biannual council of a faction of…

BNP, Jamaat, like-minded parties threaten to resist one-sided polls

report in Prothom Alo, Nov 24, 2023The leaders of BNP and some like-minded parties and alliances on Thursday threatened that the people of the country will foil the government’s move to hold a lopsided national election on 7 January by using their all might. Speaking at demonstrations and rallies in different areas of the capital in support of their ongoing 48-hour blockade on Thursday, they also called upon the government to cancel the election schedule…

PTI ordered to hold new polls to retain bat symbol

by Ali Hamza in The Nation, November 24, 2023ISLAMABAD – Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Thursday ruled that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) intra- party polls lacked transparency, directing the party to conduct new elections if it wanted to keep its “bat” symbol. A four-member bench, headed by Nisar Ahmed Durrani and comprising Shah Mohammad Jatoi, Babar Hussain Bharwana, and Justice (Retd) Ikramullah Khan, issued a reserved judegment instructing PTI to conduct new elections within…

Zardari confident ‘capable’ ECP will hold fair polls

by Syed Irfan Raza | Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, November 20th, 2023• Says environment ‘conducive’ for elections, Peoples Party ready for contest• PML-N ‘endorses’ statement, asks all political leaders to sit together to overcome crises ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: A day after sharing apprehensions regarding the lack of level playing field in the lead-up to polls, PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday reposed confidence in the Election Commission of Pakistan’s ability to hold transparent elections — a…

Ensuring Fair Polls: US assessment team enquires about govt steps:

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…

BCL attack on P Alo journo: CPJ demands impartial probe

Report in The Daily Star, Oct 7, 2023Bangladesh authorities must immediately and impartially investigate the attack on journalist Mosharraf Shah and hold the perpetrators accountable, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday. CPJ said this in an article published on its website. Referring to a statement by “Bangladeshi Journalists in International Media” and the journalist, CPJ said Mosharraf, a reporter of the daily Prothom Alo, was severely beaten by 15 to 20 men…

PPP, JI senators term ECP decision to delay elections ‘unconstitutional’

Report in Pakistan Today,August 19, 2023ISLAMABAD: The senators of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) spoke against the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) decision to carry out new delimitations, saying that it was “unconstitutional” as the electoral body is bound to hold elections within 90 days. A day earlier, the poll organising authority announced the schedule of new delimitations to be carried out as per the new census approved by the Council of Common…

One-point demand: BNP to hold countrywide marches on July 18, 19

report in The Daily Star online, July 12, 2023BNP will march in all city and district headquarters on July 18 and July 19 respectively to materialise their one-point demand. Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programmes from the party’s rally at its Nayapaltan headquarters, where he announced their one-point demand — holding the next national election under a non-partisan interim administration. About the party’s programmes on those days, he said the party will…

Zakharova Says Americans ‘Deliberately’ Left Weapons in Afghanistan

By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews Online, April 25, 2023 at 8:03 PMThe Russian foreign ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, in a press conference claimed that the the US deliberately left weapons in Afghanistan, and “now they are destabilizing the situation because terrorists may get hold of them.” Speaking at the press conference, Zakharova said that “we will not be surprised if these weapons soon surface in disputed areas of the region and other places.” “We keep…