By Dinasena Rathugamage in The Island, Dec 5, 2023Acting on a request from the Indian security authorities, Sri Lankan police are conducting investigations in respect of seven Sri Lankans who reached Dhanushkodi from Mannar on 25 Nov., seeking asylum in India. They paid Rs 300,000 for their passage across the Palk Bay that took about three hours. They were dropped at the Third Sandbar near the Dhanushkodi islet in Rameswaram by a boat operator in…
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by Ashik Abdullah Apu/Sajjad Hossain/Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary in The Daily Star, Nov 19, 2023Scenes at the Awami League and BNP offices could not be more contrasting. On the capital’s Bangabandhu Avenue, over 50 policemen were struggling to maintain order yesterday afternoon as droves of people arrived with leaders who were buying nomination forms to run for parliament on the AL ticket. By 2:30pm, several thousand cheerful supporters had gathered there. Around the same time, policemen…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 8, 2023The United Nations Coordination Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA) has reported that over 20,000 Afghan migrants have returned to Afghanistan from the Turkham and Spin Boldak borders within just three days. According to OCHA, more than 60% of these returnees are children. This organization, which is associated with the United Nations, has characterized the condition of the migrants expelled from Pakistan as “heartbreaking” according to…
report in Daily Times, Oct 30, 2023Two leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Wajiha Qamar and Chaudhry Sajid Mehmood, officially tendered their resignations on Sunday, marking their departure from the former ruling party. During a press conference convened at the Rawalpindi Press Club, Sajid articulated his reasons for parting ways with PTI. He expressed deep concerns about the party’s anti-establishment stance, asserting that it had adversely impacted the nation and had detrimental effects on the country’s…
By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, October 30, 2023ISLAMABAD: The election in the country could be held in the third week of January, a week earlier than indicated by the Election Commission of Pakistan more than a month ago. The schedule for polls will be announced in the first week of December and elections may be held in January. Sources in the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) told The News here Sunday that no…
REPORT IN The Daily Star, Sept 11, 2023The government is set to extend the suspension of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence by six more months. “Her [Khaleda’s] family has applied to the home ministry to extend the suspension of her jail sentence. I have given my opinion on the application for extending the suspension of her jail sentence by six months on previous conditions. “I sent back the relevant file two days ago along…