Report in The Nation, Dec11, 2023KOHAT – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing workers’ convention here on Saturday said that his party is contesting the general elections to continue the accomplishments achieved by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and President Zardari. “The 1973 Constitution, the 18the Amendment and NFC Award are all gifts given to the people by the PPP and those wishing to repeal them would have…
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by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023• Latest victim targeted in Sohrab Goth was JUI-F supporter• CTD finds no connection in murders of three religious scholarsKARACHI: The targeted killings of three religious scholars in the metropolis in a short span of one month put a question mark over the performance of police, Rangers and many other intelligence agencies, as they appear to have made no headway in the investigations despite their initial findings leading…
Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a suspected militant linked with the banned global militant group – Islamic State/Daesh – who was allegedly involved in the targeted killing of a sanitation worker and collecting donations for the outfit, according to CTD SSP Bashir Ahmed Brohi. Acting on tip off, the CTD’s special team carried out an action in Baloch Colony area and detained the suspect, Sirajul…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 10, 2023A crack has opened up in the ruling coalition following the signing on Tuesday of a five-point agreement between the home ministry and the Gaur Murder Victims Struggle Committee. At least 27 Maoist cadres were killed in Gaur of Rautahat district on March 21, 2007 in an ugly confrontation with the cadres of the then Madheshi Janadhikar Forum led by Upendra Yadav. Yadav now chairs the…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 3, 2023Office bearers of the ruling Nepali Congress, the largest parliamentary party, have concluded that there can be no changes in the categorisation of the insurgency-era human rights violations listed in the bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act. A meeting of the top leaders chaired by President Sher Bahadur Deuba decided that prosecution would be pursued in cases of serious violations…
report in Prothom Alo, Jul 06, 2023The United States has condemned the murder of labour union organiser Shahidul Islam and called on Bangladesh authorities to investigate the crime thoroughly and hold the perpetrators accountable, reports news agency UNB. US ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas made the call on Wednesday. Ambassador Haas visited the headquarters of the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation to express condolences over labour leader Shahidul Islam’s death. The United States said…
By Rasadi Chathurangi Gamage in Ceylon Today, June 10, 2023Vavuniya: Vavuniya High Court Judge M. Illancheliyan on 8 June handed down the death sentence to former Vavuniya PLOTE leader Sivanadan Premanath, alias Nedumaran, after finding him guilty of murder of Vavuniya General Hospital gynaecologist in the year 2000. The gynaecologist, Dr. Mohammad Sulthan Meera Mohideen, who was preparing to go home after work, had been gunned down by the accused near the Hospital gate on…
Report in The News, April 14, 2023TIMERGARA: Lower Dir police and CTD officials in a joint operation killed two terrorists involved in the murder of a traffic police official. Briefing local journalists at his office on Thursday, District Police Officer (DPO) Tariq Iqbal, SP CTD Amjad Khan and DSP Headquarter Fakhr-i-Alam Khan said that the cops conducted a raid on a tip-off regarding presence of two alleged terrorists Burhanuddin alias Burhan, a resident of Malakand,…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 10, 2023The government on Thursday brought a bill to amend the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Act retaining most of the “controversial provisions” from the previous bill that couldn’t get through the parliament last year. The Ministry of Law and Justice registered the bill at Parliament Secretariat following a Cabinet nod on Thursday morning. The new bill, like the previous one, hasn’t listed murder as a…
AFP repor, Dec 21, 2022 at 10.01 AM ISTGHAZNI: Kneeling in front of a turbanned judge in a tiny room at the Ghazni Court of Appeal in eastern Afghanistan, an old man sentenced to death for murder pleads for his life. The 75-year-old admits to having shot dead a relative — out of revenge, he says, because of rumours he had sexual relations with his daughter-in-law. Under eye-for-eye sharia punishments, officially ordered by the Taliban’s…