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…
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by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, December 28th, 2023LAHORE: With elections just round the corner, the PML-N on Wednesday unveiled an online portal to seek inputs from Pakistani nationals at home and abroad by Jan 5 for its upcoming manifesto, likely to be launched in the second week of next month. PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif underscored the participation of people in this endeavour and said the former ruling party aimed to enter elections “with a mission…
report in The News, Nov 25, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court IHC has been informed that Dr Fowzia will meet her incarcerated sister Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the United States in the first week of December, it emerged Friday. This will be the second meeting between the two sisters in the last 20 years. Earlier in May, Dr Fowzia met Aafia Siddiqui in Fort Worth prison. IHC Justice Sardar Aijaz Ishaq Khan took up the…
Report in Dawn, November 10th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif will contest in general elections as the party expects his legal troubles to go away within two months. Talking to reporters on Thursday, PML-N Punjab President Rana Sanaullah said Mr Sharif would not wait for by-polls to contest the elections and expressed hope that cases against him would be decided before the Feb 8 elections. There had been speculations among the party ranks that if…
by Iftekhar Mahmud in Prothom Alo, Oct 16, 2023One in four people in the country are food insecure, and 46 per cent of the poor population is in this dire situation according to the data revealed in a survey report released this month by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The report, titled ‘Bangladesh Food Security Monitoring Report: May-August,’ was released on 3 October. According to the report, the increase in natural calamities in…
By Awais Yousafzai in The News, October 07, 2023ISLAMABAD: Irked by reports in the media regarding the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) reservations about its Chairman Imran Khan’s shifting to Adiala Jail, Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq Friday asked if the party is dissatisfied with the court’s relevant orders issued last month. The judge questioned Khan’s lawyer, Sher Afzal Marwat, during the hearing of the plea filed for early pronouncement of reserved judgment on…
Report in Dawn, Oct 3rd, 2023KARACHI: Former PPP senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar has hinted that the formation of a new political party can be announced as early as this month. The former PPP senator, who parted ways with his party Khokhar last year, had been on a speaking tour of the country alongside former PM Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and ex-finance minister Miftah Ismail. The trio has long been hinting at introducing a new force into…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Sept 19th, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a significant step towards upcoming general elections, the preliminary delimitation of constituencies for the polls is expected to be completed this month, it has emerged. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) reviewed progress of the ongoing delimitation exercise on Monday and expressed satisfaction over its pace. The commission directed the delimitation committees to complete the task by Sept 26 positively, so that preliminary delimitation lists…
report in The Daily Star, Sept 14, 2023The BNP has planned to hold rallies in 19 districts and organise marches from one district to another this month to realise its one-point demand for election under a non-partisan government, insiders say. Supporters from the adjacent districts will be asked to join these rallies, they add. Members of the party’s standing committee, its highest policymaking body, made a draft of these programmes on Tuesday night and sent…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 11, 2023Leaders of major parties have advised Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal to maintain a fine balance in the country’s relations with the two neighbours as he prepares for a China visit this month. Dahal is preparing for two back-to-back visits—first to the 78th United National General Assembly in New York and then to China. Dahal is scheduled to address the UNGA on September 21 and…
by Sahan Tennekoon in The Daily Morning, Sept 5, 2023A new political alliance, initiated by Opposition Parliamentarian Nimal Lanza and led by Opposition MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, is to commence key discussions with major political parties representing Parliament next month (October) once it completes drafting their future programme, which is to be unveiled in the same month. Speaking to The Daily Morning yesterday (4), Yapa confirmed that the MPs who support the new alliance had…