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BNP plans to bring all opposition to one platform

by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, Dec 4, 2023Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has planned to bring all the opposition parties, which have been launching movements against the government, to one platform. Sources concerned said this strategy has been planned targeting the voting day on 7 January of the 12th parliamentary elections. At this stage of the simultaneous movement seeking the election under a neutral government, BNP policymakers think the pace of the movement will intensify…

Kabul says launching attacks in Pakistan not jihad

report in Daily Times, Oct 26, 2023A top Afghanistan diplomat said Wednesday that the Islamic Emirate – or the Taliban administration – had already issued a fatwa (decree) that launching attacks in “Pakistan is not jihad” (holy war). Hafiz Mohibullah Shakir, the acting consul general at the Afghan Consulate in Peshawar, told a private news channel the neighbouring country’s defence ministry had also made it clear that attacking Pakistan did not fall under jihad. The…