By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, April 25, 2023As the counting of votes of Sunday’s by-elections continued with candidates of new parties leading those from more established ones, a meeting of three major parties on Monday agreed to share among them the leaderships of various thematic committees of Parliament. They also agreed to work together to pass major bills including on transitional justice. The main opposition CPN-UML agreed to discuss the long-awaited bill…
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By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 22, 2023With Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal securing the parliament’s confidence on Monday, for a second time in 70 days, a political course has been completed. Since all major constitutional positions have already been filled, now the government is expected to expedite its functioning in a full swing by expanding the Cabinet. On Tuesday morning, the prime minister met some of his coalition partners and discussed…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 23, 2023 In the run up to the presidential elections, Nepal’s political parties have begun their exercises to grab the top state position. Claims by several political parties to the presidential positions have thrown up multiple possibilities of who the next President and Vice President will be. The nominations for the top jobs are scheduled for Saturday. But the parties are still discussing the candidates as consensus…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 10, 2023In what is a major blow to the ruling coalition, Nepali Congress provincial parliamentary party leader Kamal Bahadur Shah was appointed chief minister of Sudurpaschim Province on Thursday. Provincial head Devraj Joshi appointed Shah as chief minister after the incumbent, Rajendra Singh Rawal of the CPN-UML, failed to secure the confidence of the provincial assembly earlier in the day. “As the number of lawmakers saying ‘no’…
By Mosharraf Zaidi in The News, January 17, 2023The writer is an analyst and commentatorThe polycrisis in Pakistan rages on. Urgent questions agitate the condition of the Pakistani. A sovereign default may not be imminent, but an existential economic crisis has raged for months, perhaps years – depending on who is measuring what. How long before economic difficulties cause major social unrest in Pakistan? The dissolution of the Punjab Assembly means that an already frayed…