by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, Sept 5th, 2023KARACHI: Three persons were booked and arrested for vandalising a place of worship of the Ahmadi community in Saddar on Monday afternoon for a second time in a short span of less than seven months. Police and community representatives said that a mob stormed into Ahmadiyya Hall near Electronics Market and destroyed its minarets, doors, windows, etc. Amir Mehmood, a spokesperson for the Jamaat-i-Ahmadiyya, told Dawn that the…
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report in The Sunday Times, Aug 27, 2023…….. For opposition political parties represented in Parliament, the preoccupation appears to be preparing for a parliamentary election. Though there is no formal indication from President Ranil Wickremesinghe, their leaders do not want to take any chances. That it would take months rather than weeks is clear from President Wickremesinghe’s decision to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. …… The latest round of talks came between the…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 26, 2023The government’s key ministries are busy preparing their own agendas in what would be a wish-list from the Nepali side to be discussed during the Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s China visit next month. Dahal is scheduled to travel direct from New York to Hangzhou, China on September 22. He will attend the opening ceremony of the 19th Asian Games to be held in Chinese city…
by Raheed Ejaz in Prothom Alo, Aug 25, 2023Exactly six years ago on this day (25 August), thousands of Rohingya men and women crossed the border over from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh, in a bid to save their lives. Over the next few months, at least 700,000 Rohingya crossed the Naf river and took shelter in Bangladesh, fleeing from the atrocities of the Myanmar armed forces. Even back then it had been feared that…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, August 23, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary Kanwar Dilshad has said that the next elections are possible only at least after nine months, not before May 2024. Talking to The News here on Tuesday, he explained that the delimitation of constituencies on the basis of census 2023 will take four months, which will follow the revision of electoral rolls on the basis of new headcount. Dilshad…
by Asiri Fernando in The Sunday Morning, Aug 13, 2023The new Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for granting diplomatic clearance to foreign sea vessels and government or military aircraft visiting Sri Lanka, although approved by Cabinet, will likely be finalised and come into effect next month, The Sunday Morning reliably learns. The new SOPs, which were drafted following a review after the controversial visit by Chinese State-owned satellite tracking vessel Yuan Wang 5 in August last…