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PTI internal intrigues come out in the open

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…

Congress dissidents join UML to demand high-level gold probe

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 14, 2023After the main opposition CPN-UML, a faction of the ruling Nepali Congress has also demanded a high-level probe panel to investigate the cases of gold smuggling. This development is likely to build pressure on the ruling coalition, which was rejecting the opposition’s demand for such a probe saying that the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police was already looking into the issue and that…

Fresh call to uncover Lanka mass grave secrets

Report in ECONOMYNEXT, June 25, 2023Five civil society groups are calling for government action to investigate mass graves which they say contain the remains of so-called “disappeared” in various civil conflicts on the island. In a press release issued on June 22, the groups insisted that “if the Sri Lankan government is serious about dealing with the past it must commit to have international observers at all exhumations of mass graves.” The festering issue of…

Government ignoring Human Rights Commission’s recommendations to investigate the Gaur massacre:

By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 09, 2023The government has ignored the National Human Rights Commission’s recommendation to investigate Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav among 129 others in connection with the 2007 Gaur massacre. The constitutional human rights watchdog on January 7 had asked government agencies through the Prime Minister’s Office to probe the heinous crime and take action against Yadav and others, if found guilty. The commission also demanded the progress…