Report in The Daily Star, Oct 26, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that conspirators are active at home and abroad to halt the progress of the country. However, different government agencies are working to prevent anti-Bangladesh propaganda, she said. The premier said this in reply to a query of Awami League MP Nazrul Islam Babu from Narayanganj-2. With Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, the question-answer session of the premier, who is now in Brussels,…
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Report in Pakistan Today, Oct 3, 2023LONDON: Three-time prime minister and PML-N’s absconding leader Nawaz Sharif has purchased his air ticket for Pakistan, source said on Monday. Sources close to Sharif told this scribe that the three-time prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) de-facto chief Nawaz Sharif, who has been wanted by courts, plans to land at Abu Dhabi International Airport from London on October 21 from where he plans to fly to Lahore…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Oct 1, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal returned home on Saturday after his two-week-long visit to China and New York. Talking to the media upon arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport, Dahal made no mention of the Belt and Road Initiative, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship project, that was tipped to be taken forward as a Nepal-China after negotiations in Beijing. Both the 40-point press note issued in Kathmandu and…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 30, 2023Completing his half-month-long visit to China and New York, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is returning home on Saturday from Chengdu. This is probably the first time that a Nepali prime minister has been out of the country for two weeks, amid several crises including doctors’ protests and teachers’ agitation, price rises ahead of big festivals, a struggling economy and poor governance. Also, the regular House…
by Shafqat Ali in The Nation, Sept 28, 2023ISLAMABAD – Pakistan is in contact with the United States over a plan to send more than one million Afghan refugees back home, diplomatic sources said yesterday. Senior Pakistani diplomats told The Nation that Pakistan had briefed the US about the illegal activities of the Afghan refugees and their involvement in terrorism. One diplomat said the US respects Pakistan’s decision but feared humanitarian crisis due to the…
Arifur Rahman in Prothom ALo, Sept 25, 2023Rangpur: Rangpur is called the citadel of Jatiya Party (JaPa). It is home to the party’s founder HM Ershad, who had been in power for 9 years at a stretch. The JaPa candidate Mostafizar Rahman came victorious by a huge margin in the last mayoral election in Rangpur city corporation. Yet, many local leaders think JaPa’s heyday is over in the district. JaPa once had all MPs in…
By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, April 10, 2023 at 8:12 PMThe suspension of work of the UN Afghan national staff in Afghanistan has been extended for another 26-days, a source privy to the issue told TOLOnews. The source said the Afghan employees of the UN will continue their work from home. The move to suspend work for 48 hours was made in solidarity with the female Afghan UN staff—which has been extended until May 5…
By Mohammad Amin Pacha in TOLOnews, April 05, 2023 at 11:24 PMThe UN instructed its female Afghan staff to stay at home for the next two days after the Islamic Emirate signaled that they would enforce a ban on Afghan women working for the UN agencies. Reuters reported that the UN told some 3,300 Afghan staff not to come to work in Afghanistan for the next two days. UN officials in Afghanistan “received word of…
Three Nepali women escape their coercive Chinese employers in Laos. They still feel unsafe back home
by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, January 4, 2023Lalita’s husband, Rajan, doesn’t have free time to think these days. His brain is occupied by a loan of Rs290,000, which he paid to a Chinese agent two months ago to enable his sick wife to return from a Laos-based call centre. Rajan, 35, is now learning the Korean language and is into ride-sharing gigs, so that he can pay his four-year-old son’s monthly school fee…
Report in The Daily Star, Dec 16, 2022After a long hiatus, Hefajat-e Islam, the Qawmi madrasa-based organisation is becoming active to strengthen the organisation once again and press home its 13-point demand, including scrapping “anti-Islam” women and education policies. The outfit is going to organise a conference tomorrow in Dhaka. As the tenure of current government is nearing an end, Hefajat has apparently taken a move to strengthen the organisation and put pressure on the…