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Prime Minister Dahal reassures chief ministers on police adjustment, civil service law

Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 31, 2023Drawing the federal government’s attention to their demand to adjust the police force and promulgate the federal civil service law has been the provincial leadership’s regular business for the last few months. The chief ministers and ministers descend on Kathmandu to pressure the prime minister to address their demands. Every time they approach Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, he promises them to act immediately, and they return. The…

PTI chief urges judiciary to ensure fair polls

report in The News, December 20, 2023PESHAWAR: PTI Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan on Tuesday said the higher judiciary should play its role in holding fair, free and transparent general elections to provide a capable leadership to the country. “We have petitioned the Peshawar and Lahore high courts to hold elections under the supervision of the judiciary, as we believe deputy commissioners and local administrations are not impartial,” he said while talking to reporters on…

Two King’s parties’ journey marred by leadership dispute

by Samsur Rahman in Prothom Alo, Nov 22, 2023The Trinamool BNP and the Bangladesh Nationalist Movement (BNM), which have come to limelight all of a sudden securing the registration with the election commission as political parties, have said they would field candidate in all 300 constituencies in the upcoming 12th parliamentary election. However, both parties have encountered internal disputes, particularly concerning leadership, as the key initiators of the parties no longer hold the primary leadership…

Nawaz ‘ready to face anything’ upon return

by Zulqernain Tahir | Atika Rehman in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023LAHORE / LONDON: After in-depth discussions on the issue with the party’s second-tier leadership at two separate meetings, the PML-N on Saturday declared that supreme leader Nawaz Sharif is ready to face “all kinds of circumstances” upon his return from London on Oct 21. A day after senior leader Ishaq Dar announced they would no longer be demanding for accountability of elements behind the elder…

BNP divided in Naser-Mizanur groups in Moulvibazar, AL in order

by Akmol Hossain in Prothom Alo, Sept 30, 2023Moulvibazar: They are sometimes seen together on one stage, delivering speeches. But in actuality they have not been together for around two years. The movement and programmes are being held, but separately. BNP’s activities in Moulvibazar district are being carried out in this manner, under the leadership of the president and the general secretary. Awami League, on the other hand, is quite well organised in Moulvibazar. Even…

Political leaders want new CJP to ‘balance scales of justice’

by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, Sept 18th, 2023LAHORE: Political leaders have congratulated Qazi Faez Isa on his appointment as the 29th chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) and hoped the court would be balanced in the dispensation of justice under his leadership. Former prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and PML-N chief organiser Maryam Nawaz Sharif expressed the hope that principles of justice would be upheld during the new chief justice’s tenure. Congratulating CJP Isa on his new…

Wary of ECP ‘bias’, PPP urges polls at earliest

by Amjad Mahmood in Dawn, Sept 15th, 2023• CEC meeting to continue today, focus on pro-PML-N men in caretaker set-up, delimitations, economy• PPP shows flexibility on delimitation, asks ECP to shorten its proposed timeline for the exerciseLAHORE: In a highly-anticipated meeting of its Central Executive Committee on Thursday, the PPP leadership expressed concerns over the inclusion of the pro-PML-N men in the caretaker cabinet, the ban slapped on development projects in Sindh by the election…

As Maoists discuss leadership change, some espy chance

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 11, 2023It sounds improbable. But perhaps it’s not impossible. During the party’s recent central committee meeting, two of the most influential CPN (Maoist Centre) leaders strongly raised the issue of grooming the successor of party chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal. Until recently, even broaching the topic of Dahal’s successor would have been a hearsay in the party. The two deputy general secretaries Barshaman Pun and Janardan Sharma…

Koshi govt. to be formed under Thapa’s leadership: Leader Dr Koirala

report in Nepalnews, July 29, 2023MORANG: Nepali Congress (NC) central member Dr. Shekhar Koirala expressed his confidence that the Koshi province government would be formed under Uddhab Thapa’s leadership itself. Talking to journalists at Biratnagar Airport on Friday evening, Dr Koirala claimed a coalition government would be formed in the Koshi province under the leadership of Thapa within a week. His remarks noting speakers’ interference on forming government in the past was a mistake has…

Nur at helm of Gono Odhikar Parishad

report in The Daily Star’, July 11, 2023Nurul Haque Nur was elected Gono Odhikar Parishad president in its first-ever council held yesterday amid intra-party rifts over leadership. Nur, who was the member secretary of the immediate past committee, bagged 135 votes, while his two other contenders Nazmus Sakib and Bayezid Shahed got 13 and six votes respectively. A total of 162 votes were cast in the president post. Muhammad Rashed Khan got 103 votes and…

Islamic Emirate Delegation Attends Meeting on Afghanistan in Norway:

By Banafsha Binesh in TOLOnews, June 13, 2023 at 8:45 PMNorway’s foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced the ministry “invited three people from the civil service in Kabul to participate in this year’s Oslo Forum,” adding “they are not from the political leadership of the Taliban.” At the forum, which is ongoing now, these representatives are meeting “Afghan civil society and representatives from other countries to talk about the major challenges in Afghanistan,” Huitfeldt said. Islamic…