report in The News,November 23, 2023LAHORE: Former prime minister and PMLN President Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday met several former parliamentarians, including ex-senator Waqar Ahmed and PMLN KP President Ameer Muqam. Both congratulated him on his acquittal in the Ashiana Iqbal reference. The leaders discussed the overall situation and preparations for the general elections. Shehbaz said that under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, the PMLN always lived up to the trust and expectations of the nation.…
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report in Dawn, October 15th, 2023MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Parliamentarians’ chairman Pervez Khattak on Saturday insisted his party would form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Speaking at a public gathering in Pattan, the district headquarters of Lower Kohistan, he claimed he helped Imran Khan establish his party’s government in KP twice. Former chief minister Mahmood Khan and PTI-P Hazara division president Salah Mohammad Khan also spoke. Mr Khattak claimed when he was the chief minister…
Report in Dawn, October 8th, 2023CHARSADDA: Awami National Party provincial president Aimal Wali Khan came down hard on Pervez Khattak, the chief of newly-formed Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Parliamentarians (PTI-P), insisting he was the most known turncoat in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s politics. He was speaking at a party’s workers’ convention in PK-65 constituency here on Saturday. ANP district president Shakeel Bashir Khan Umarzai, candidate for PK-65 Shahzaduddin, and member of the party’s central committee Qasim Ali Khan also…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Sept 29, 2023China, more than any other country in the region or elsewhere, offers exchange programmes to the parliamentarians from Sri Lanka. In the previous Parliament, all 225 members were offered chances to undertake familiarisation tours to China and to engage with the Communist Party of China (CPC) as part of its international engagement. A fair number of MPs from the current Parliament has also travelled to China currently,…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, April 14, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.The Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and its leaders, including its chair and parliamentarians, have been courting controversies, one after another, in under a year of the party’s formation. Most recently, the RSP expelled its lawmaker Dhaka Kumar Shrestha from the party on Wednesday over a leaked audio in which a voice, allegedly Shrestha’s, demands Rs20…