by Asif Chaudhry in Dawn, December 21st, 2023LAHORE: Two police personnel were injured when unidentified attackers threw explosives into the house of former chief justice of the Supreme Court, Saqib Nisar, in Ahmad Block of Garden Town here on Wednesday night. The former CJP and his family members were in the house when the incident occurred, however, they remained unhurt. Shortly after the incident, Saqib Nisar told some media persons that he and his family…
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by Muhammad Shahzad in The Express Tribune, Nov 8, 2023LAHORE: In a significant development in the ongoing investigation of the May 9 Lahore Jinnah House inferno, two senior police officers have surfaced as suspects. The list of suspects, handed over to SP Investigations Model Town, includes Inspector Asim Rafi, currently serving as the Personal Staff Officer (PSO) of Lahore DIG Operations, and Sub-Inspector Asif Zulfiqar, who is serving as SHO Mustafabad. The list, which consists…
report in Prothom Alo, Oct 6, 2023Internet freedom in Bangladesh declined during the period spanning from June 2022 to May 2023, said US-based think tank Freedom House. In a report titled ‘Freedom on the Net 2023, the think tank marked internet freedom in Bangladesh as “partly free” with a declining overall score of 41 out of 100 and painted a concerning picture of internet freedom here. In detail, the country received 12 points out of…
report in The News online, Oct4, 2023At least 20 to 25 unknown assailants attacked the police personnel stationed outside the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Karachi headquarters, Insaf House, police said on Wednesday. The attackers tore the uniforms of the policemen and also attempted to seize weapons from them, the police told Geo News. They, according to the police, pelted stones at the officers and vandalised their patrol vehicles. When more personnel arrived at the scene, the…
By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Sept 16, 2023Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP, yesterday (15) asked whether a comprehensive international investigation into accountability issues here could be conducted unless India, too, was subjected to the same. The former Public Security Minister was responding to the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) declaration that India and Sri Lanka Core Group at the ongoing 54 session of the UN…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Aug 29, 2023 at 8:47 PMWhite House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that that the US has been very clear about the education of girls in Afghanistan. Addressing the press conference, Jean-Pierre said that Washington remains laser-focused on trying to support and assist the Afghan people without bolstering the Islamic Emirate. “We have been very clear in laying out our concerns, such as girls’ education, with the Taliban. We have…
By Eric Shahzar in The News,August 27, 2023The writer is an academic based in Oxford and London, UK.An accurate measure of a truly thriving and pluralistic society lies in how it treats its minorities. In Pakistan, a nation grappling with religious extremism, the plight of minorities remains an ever so pressing concern. In Sep 2017, the tragic case of Sharoon Masih, a young student lynched to death simply for drinking water from his Muslim classmate’s…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 9, 2023Despite the home minister committing to a fair investigation into last month’s gold seizure, the main opposition party continued its disruption of the House of Representatives demanding a high-level panel to conduct the probe. After nearly two weeks of obstruction, the CPN-UML on Tuesday allowed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha to inform the House on the measures being taken to…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 31, 2023Despite a “positive” meeting between Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist Centre) chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, uncertainty looms over Monday’s meeting of the House of Representatives. The House meeting remains postponed since last Wednesday after the UML disrupted the proceedings demanding formation of a high-level panel to investigate the smuggling of gold into the country. On July 18, assisted by the…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 10, 2023An ongoing blame game between the ruling and opposition parties over Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s controversial statement has led to yet another postponement of a lower house meeting on Sunday. Hours before the meeting, leaders of the Nepali Congress, the CPN-UML and the Maoist Centre had agreed that the opposition would allow Prime Minister Dahal to provide his clarification in Parliament on the statement, thereby…
by Anish Tiwari in The Kathmandu Post, June 28, 2023Sangdo Maya Hyolmo, a 43-year-old woman from Hyolmo Tole in ward 1 of Helambu Rural Municipality, lost her house to the floods that wreaked havoc in the rural municipality two years ago. Hyolmo has since been living in a temporary shed at Ghyangual in the same ward. According to Hyolmo, there are around 200 displaced people like her living in temporary shelters in Ghyangual. “Those who…