by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 20th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A five-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), headed by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, on Tuesday reserved a judgement on a matter linked with the allocation of ‘bat’ as poll symbol to PTI. Setting a new precedence, the ECP had taken notice of the intra-party elections of PTI in which Barrister Gohar Ali was easily elected as the party’s new chairman.…
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By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 08, 2023There are now a handful of entities probing the Ncell sale case. The government on Thursday formed a five-member high-level committee to investigate the buyout of Ncell, a mobile service provider. A Cabinet meeting constituted the panel under former auditor general Tanka Mani Sharma. It has been given 30 days to study the matter and submit its report. The government appointed the panel a day after…
By Mumtaz Alvi in The News, Nov 29, 2023ISLAMABAD: The senior leadership of the PTI, including legal and constitutional experts, are trying to resolve the matter of holding intra-party elections as per the ECP’s orders, given the tricky question of incarcerated party chairman Imran Khan’s participation in the upcoming party polls. A senior party leader told The News that the party is “yet to reach a conclusion regarding our chairman and vice-chairman [Shah Mehmood Qureshi]…
by Sahan Tennekoon in The Daily Morning, Nov 23, 2023The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of the Parliamentary Opposition said that the Legislature is yet to appoint a member to the Constitutional Council (CC) representing the ethnic minorities, even though this matter had been raised on many an occasion. Speaking in Parliament yesterday (22), TNA Parliamentarian, President’s Counsel (PC) M.A. Sumanthiran said that even though they had named TNA MP Dharmalingam Sithadthan for the vacant seat…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Nov 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Despite simmering tensions with Afghanistan, Pakistan is confident that it can sort out the issue of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), officials, who deal with the matter, believe. “It is not the question of a contingency plan. It is the question of capability and we have that capability to tackle the problem,” a senior official told The Express Tribune here on Wednesday while requesting anonymity. He…
By Murtaza Ali Shah in The News, October 04, 2023LONDON: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said Tuesday he has a relationship of 35 years with Nawaz Sharif and these relations are beyond political considerations. This statement was made amid speculations that Khaqan’s journey with the PMLN has, more or less, come to an end and it’s just a matter of time before this is made official. Speaking to the media after meeting Nawaz Sharif…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Daily Morning, Sept 1, 2023Claiming that the proposed bridge to be built connecting Sri Lanka and India would be the beginning of many unnecessary problems, the Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith insisted that a referendum be held on the matter. Commenting on the proposed building of a bridge connecting Sri Lanka and India, he queried during a recent service as to whether the country was not having enough issues…
Editorial in The Nation, July 8, 2023On Thursday, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of parliament took notice of the leakage of citizens’ data by the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), directing the interior ministry to investigate the matter. Even though data security issues have been around for a while, the matter has gained further attention with the information of military officials being leaked, highlighting how serious the threat is and how it continues to…