By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, November 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Core Committee on Monday gave formal approval to hold the intra-party elections within the time frame given by the Election Commission of Pakistan. During the core committee meeting, the Central Media Department said, important issues including the country’s political situation, organizational activities, ongoing series of repression and fascism against PTI leaders and workers and intra-party elections were discussed. It strongly condemned the arrest…
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report in Prothom ALo, Nov 21, 2023Some 47 eminent citizens of the country feel that the Election Commission (EC) is playing the role of a supplementary force for the government to conduct a ‘one-sided’ election. They have urged the government to take initiatives to create a conducive electoral environment. They made this statement on Monday. The statement reads, “The government has taken various initiatives to conduct a one-sided election. As part of this, leaders and…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 14, 2023Pakistan’s Interim Interior Minister, Sarfraz Bugti, has refuted claims of mistreatment of Afghan migrants by Pakistani security forces. He assured that refugees with immigration cards will not face deportation from Pakistan, addressing the issue during a session in the Pakistani Senate on November 13. Bugti revealed that around 300,000 illegal Afghan migrants have voluntarily returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan, with only 8,000 deportations carried out…
By Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, November 8th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Tuesday assured Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja of all possible support and resources for holding the next general elections, slated to be held on Feb 8. The meeting came a day before the prime minister’s departure for a series of high-level international visits, beginning with the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO) summit in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan,…
by Umer Farooq | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Nov 4, 2023PESHAWAR/ QUETTA: As the voluntary repatriation of the illegal Afghan nationals continued on a third consecutive day after the expiry of the deadline, the government has opened six more holding areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to facilitate the repatriation. On the other hand, Afghan consul general Gul Hassan called on Balochistan Information Minister Jan Achakzai in Quetta, where the latter minced no words to refute the…
report in The Express Tribune, Oct 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: Amid reports of political wheeling and dealing to force more delay in holding the general elections, the PPP on Saturday reiterated its call for an immediate announcement of the polls schedule, asserting it was the sole means to steer the country out of the myriad of crises. PPP’s Faisal Karim Kundi’s statement in the wake of a recent meeting between JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and PML-N…
Report in Pakistan Today, Oct 14, 2023Says state is capable enough to combat outlawed group not for a year but centuryDebunks any notions of registered Afghan refugees being expelled from PakistanPESHAWAR: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Friday unequivocally ruled out any possibility of negotiations with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), saying that Pakistani nation is resolute in its capacity to combat the ‘miscreants’ for the long haul. “Definitely without any doubt, I will…
By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News,Sept 7, 2023ISLAMABAD: The ECP is holding meetings regularly and concentrating on completing the process of constituency delimitation in an error-free manner. As such, the commission will not be rushing to announce the schedule of the general elections, with sources saying that: “it is unlikely that polling day will be determined any time soon and even before the end of the month as the specific question isn’t on the…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 12, 2023The main opposition CPN-UML has been obstructing the federal Parliament since last month demanding a high-level investigation into the recent incidents of gold smuggling through the Tribhuvan International Airport. On Friday, even the ruling parties obstructed the National Assembly, protesting against the UML’s ongoing obstruction of the legislature. Both chambers of the federal parliament have been obstructed since July 26. As major parties have taken…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, July 28, 2023BNP is finally holding its grand rally at Naya Paltan of the capital on Friday. BNP feels that the two days of tensions regarding permission for the rally venue, arrest of many of its leaders, raids on houses and hotels, have made this rally in the final stages of the ‘one-point’ movement a matter of its ‘image’. According to the responsible sources of BNP, the announcement of…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 22, 2023Nearly a month after his death on March 24, the struggle committee agitating against the decision of the Province 1 provincial assembly to name the province as ‘Koshi’, decided to perform the funeral rites of their activist Padam Limbu, also known as Lajehang, on Saturday, after holding a condolence assembly in Biratnagar. As there was no significant struggle when all five provinces were named by…