Press "Enter" to skip to content

Posts tagged as “leader”

Mawlawi Kabir Appointed Acting PM As Mullah Hassan Akhund is Ill: Mujahid

By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, May 17, 2023 at 9:57 PMMawlawi Abdul Kabir has been appointed acting head instead of Prime Minister Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund by the order of the leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada. According to the Islamic Emirate’s spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, PM Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund is in Kandahar for medical treatment for an extended period of time and the political deputy PM, Mawlawi Abdul Kabir, is managing…

Swatantra Party cadres under public scrutiny

By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 21, 2023Rabi Lamichhane and, by extension, Rastriya Swatantra Party’s supporters have been showing little tolerance for criticism and questions being asked of the newly-emerged party and its leader. Insults and epithets like ‘traitor’, ‘jhole’, ‘patrukar’, ‘brokers’ and the like are routinely traded on social media by the followers against just anyone who expresses any critical comment against Lamichhane and the RSP. Such low-level comments pour in immediately…

No national government: Sajith

report on Daily Mirror online, Apr 18, 2023 at10 pmSamagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) will not be a part of a national government with those who do not have a mandate, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said today. “The present government and the President are carrying out a Hitler-type campaign to fool the people by spreading falsehood with regard to a national government. This is just like what Hitler using Joseph Goebbels did during World War 2.…

CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Mukunda Neupane quits party

Report in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 8, 2023 at 15:28 hrsSenior CPN (Unified Socialist) leader Mukunda Neupane has quit the party. Neupane, who comes third in the party hierarchy after Madhav Kumar Nepal and Jhalanath Khanal, announced deserting the party at a press meet in the Capital on Saturday. Addressing the press meet, Neupane said the party is trapped in the quagmire of the ruling coalition, accusing the party leadership of being guided by closed-door…

Next Government will be led by the UNP: Akila Viraj

by Ruwani Fonseka in The Morning, Mar 28, 2023I would like to state that the next Government will be led by the United National Party (UNP) under the leadership of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, said the assistant leader of the UNP, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam. He mentioned this at a UNP public gathering held in Kurunegala yesterday (27). “There are no queues for petrol and gas and no power interruptions, prices of good have been reduced recently…

IEA Officials’ Sons Barred From Working for Govt Administrations: Supreme Leader:

By Nizamuddin Rezahi in The Khaama Press online, March 19,2023The Administrative Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has issued a decree attributed to the group’s Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, stating that sons of those IEA officials working in government administrations based on personal connections have been fired. The decree was announced on Saturday, March 18, stating that the officials of the ministries, departments, and administrations should refrain from recruiting employees based on family and…

Pakistan Financing Islamic State in Afghanistan, Attack on Embassy in Kabul A Drama: Former IS Leader

By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 17, 2023Sheikh Abdul Rahim Muslimdost, in a recent interview with al-Mersaad Media, claimed that Pakistan is financing the ISIS group in Afghanistan. Muslimdost was a former founding member of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) who surrendered to the Taliban in March 2022, according to the media reports. In his interview, he claimed that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba provided 50 Lakh Pakistani Rupee to the ISKP in 2015. He…

Prayer leader among four TTP members held in Swabi

report in Dawn, February 5th, 2023SWABI: The police claim to have arrested four militants, including a prayer leader, belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a raid on a house in Hund village here on Friday night, regional police officer (RPO) Mohammad Ali Gandapur said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference, RPO Gandapur accompanied by district police officer Najamul Hussain said the police had also recovered five kilogramme explosives, 26 hand grenades, 46 detonators,…

TTP ‘still amenable’ to ceasefire, says leader

Report in Dawn, January 8th, 2023PESHAWAR: The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) leader, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsood, has indicated that his outfit is still amenable to a ceasefire agreement with the government. “We held talks with Pakistan mediated by Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan. We are still open to the ceasefire agreement,” Mehsood said in a message on Saturday. The statement indicated that the TTP sought guidance from religious scholars, saying: “If you find anything mislaid, any…

China, Saudi Arabia Pledge to Increase Afghan Security, Stability

report in ToloNews, Dec 10, 2022 at- 8:18 PMIn a joint statement issued on Friday after meetings between the two countries’ leaders in Riyadh, China and Saudi Arabia emphasized the importance of preventing Afghanistan from becoming a haven for terrorists. According to the statement, Beijing and Riyadh are working to improve security and stability in Afghanistan and will help to provide humanitarian aid to this country. “Regarding Afghanistan, the two sides stressed the importance of…

Will CPN (US) merge with CPN-MC?

By Ram Kumar Kamat in The Himalayan Times, Dec 3, 2022.KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 2CPN (Unified Socialist) is taking pains to clarify that there is no truth in news reports that the party is soon going to unify with CPN-Maoist Centre, but its senior leaders think otherwise. General Secretary of the CPN (Unified Socialist) Beduram Bhusal today issued a press release stating that his party was clear that communist forces should unite, but the party had not…