By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Nov 08, 2023Nepali officials are seeking negotiations with China to put into force the proposed plan to electrify some of the remote bordering villages of Nepal with the Chinese grid. Officials said they want assistance from the northern neighbour as it will be costly to connect the villages to the domestic grid due to difficult geography. Nepal had asked the Chinese side to supply electricity from the…
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Report in Dawn, July 13th, 2023KARACHI: Three officials of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) were wounded when their armoured-personnel carrier (APC) was attacked with a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) near Northern Bypass on early Wednesday morning, Senior CTD official Raja Umer Khattab said that their intelligence wing had been working on the presence of militants belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in Karachi and its adjoining cities in Baluchistan, and when it was returning…
by Raj Bahadur Shahi in the Kathmandu Post, April 7, 2023Residents of remote Mugu district bordering China have long been eking out a living by conducting trade with the northern neighbour. In early 2020, the border closed, and hundreds of households in this northwest corner of Nepal were pushed to the edge of poverty after all commerce came to a halt. Villagers living close to the Nepal-China border points say Beijing’s erratic trade policy is…
By Arshad Yousafzai in The News, Feb 19, 2023Following the conclusion of a fact-finding mission in northern Sindh, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over the state of law and order in upper districts of the province mentioning high incidence of gender-based violence, slow pace of rehabilitation of flood-affected communities and safety issues for journalists. The HRCP mission said it was concerned over the political and feudal influence on state institutions…