by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 7, 2023Disputes among the commissioners within the National Human Rights Commission are not uncommon. In 2010-11, then commissioners Leela Pathak and KB Rokaya had a nasty feud that hampered the performance of the constitutional body. Although it didn’t come to the public’s attention, there were serious differences among the office bearers in the previous team led by Anup Raj Sharma. On some occasions Sharma had criticised the…
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Report in The Daily Star, Nov 24, 2023Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has accused US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas of grossly interfering in Bangladesh’s internal affairs. “At the end of October, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas met a member of the local opposition to discuss plans for organising anti-government rallies. Such actions amount to nothing less than gross interference in internal affairs,” she said in a briefing in Moscow. Russian Embassy in…
by Rameez Khan in The Express Tribune, Oct 14, 2023LAHORE: With PML-N Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz limiting herself to holding party meetings, Shehbaz Sharif on Friday took charge and led a sizable rally on the peripheries of Lahore City – a move that seemingly lent credence to reports suggesting internal strife. Shehbaz’s rally came after Maryam opted to limit herself to holding party meetings, following a consensus to refrain from organising a convention-cum-rally for…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror on line, Sept 1, 2023Reports of internal discord over presidential candidacy prompted both the National People’s Power (NPP) and the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) to unveil their presidential candidates well ahead of the usual timeline, Daily Mirror learns. NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently announced that he will contest the next year’s presidential election, though it is customary for any party to announce its candidate close to the election…
By Mohammad Amin Pacha n ToloNews, Aug 21, 2023 at 8:51 PMThe acting Interior Minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, said that the recent incidents in Pakistan are due to its internal problems, which Islamabad itself should address. He warned that if Pakistan seeks to solve its issues by force through Afghanistan, the interests of citizens of both countries will be harmed. “If they want to solve this issue through force, certainly– the nations of Afghanistan and Pakistan,…
report in The Express Tribune, Aug 20, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has decided to investigate the claims made by party’s counsel Sher Afzal Khan Marwat regarding the existence of individuals within the party’s core committee and legal team who are “jeopardising his security by leaking sensitive party information to adversaries”. “…the traitors in the Khan legal team and the PTI Core Committee have put my life in danger. The presence of the traitors in the…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, June 15, 2023 at 9:21 PMActing Minister of Defense Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid denied claims of disputes within the Islamic Emirate and said that any disputes that harm the system do not exist in the Islamic Emirate government. In an interview with TOLOnews, Yaqoob Mujahid emphasized that reports made by international organizations concerning violations of human rights in Panjshir are untrue. “I have worked and served for a very…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in ToloNews, June 14, 2023 at 9:40 PMThe acting Minister of Defense Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said that demands against Islamic laws will never be accepted in the country. In a special interview with TOLOnews, Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said the current Afghan government would never accept some of the demands made by the international community because they are in opposition to Islamic Sharia and Afghan culture. According to Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid,…
report in Prothom Alo, May 3, 2023The US does not want to comment on Bangladesh’s forthcoming national election, noting that it is an internal domestic election. “I don’t have anything else to get into that beyond as it’s an internal, domestic election,” said deputy principal spokesperson Vedant Patel. He came up with the remarks when a journalist wanted to know how the US would navigate a situation where, in Bangladesh, another party refuses to participate…
by Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, Mar 17, 2023The question of foreign interference into the internal affairs of Bangladesh has come up for discussion again. This has started with a remark by Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen. In an event in Dhaka on Tuesday, Yao Wen said China supports the stance Bangladesh has taken in rejecting foreign interference in internal affairs. Is there any interference in the internal affairs of Bangladesh? This question has…