Report in The Daily Star, Dec 08, 2023A total of 131 international observers and 46 foreign journalists have expressed interest in monitoring and covering the January 7 national election until yesterday, said Election Commission Secretary Jahangir Alam. Yesterday was the last date for international observers and foreign journalists to apply to monitor the election. EC sources said they invited 114 members and chiefs of election commissions from 34 countries and heads of four associations —…
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by Muhammad Usama Khalid in Pakistan Today, Aug 18, 2023Last week three policemen were killed in Quetta, among whom two belonged to the Hazara community, in two incidents. Both the incidents occurred in a matter of hours of each other, raising suspicions among the common citizens who, being themselves survivors, sufferers, and observers of the same precarious situation a few years back, were quick to react towards these two separate incidents as the revival of…
by Porimol Palma in The Daily Star, Jul 6, 2023The assessment of the EU exploratory mission, which will visit Bangladesh for two weeks starting July 9, could determine the international acceptability of the next parliamentary election, analysts have said. The EU is sending the mission to observe the pre-polls atmosphere, and the response will determine whether it would send a team to observe the election. The initiative, the first of this kind with regard to…