report in The Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023PESHAWAR: In a bid to alleviate escalating tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan, a delegation of religious scholars, headed by the Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI-F) chief Mullana Fazal Ur Rehman, is set to depart for the Afghan capital on January 3, a reliable source from Kabul confirmed. The source, in a conversation over the phone, told The Express Tribune that the Ministry of Interior and the Foreign Office have finalised…
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Report in Prothom Alo, 23 Oct 2023Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has no plan to enforce an indefinite sit-in from 28 October, and the party men will return home after the grand rally in Dhaka, clarified the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday. “We have asked (the party men) to return to their respective places after the 28 October rally and to wait for the next course of the programme. We will announce…
report in Prothom Alo, June 27, 2023 BNP will soon launch their one-point movement to oust the current government, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. Talking to newsmen at BNP chairperson’s Gulshan office, the BNP leader also said that a suitable and acceptable framework for a polls-time neutral government will come out through discussions with all stakeholders to hold the next election in a fair and credible manner. “We’re basically on a…
by Ishaq Tanoli in Dawn, Mar 7th, 2023KARACHI: The Federal Shariat Court on Monday dismissed a petition challenging the Sindh Child Marriages Restraint Act of 2013, saying that the law was not against the injunctions of Islam. It observed that the legislature’s move to fix a minimum age for marriage was in accordance with injunctions of Islam as laid down in the Holy Quran and Sunnah. The two-judge bench, comprising acting Chief Justice Dr Syed…
report in Prothom Alo, Mar 4, 2023A 28-year-old was killed and at least 50 were injured, including nine policemen, in clashes that broke out between police and certain religious elements in Panchagarh as the latter brought out a rally demanding a halt to the gathering of the Ahmadiyyas, a sect of Islam formed by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. A total of 17 platoons of BGB have been deployed in Panchagarh city area to evade further tension,…