report in Prothom Alo, Nov 12, 2023A total of 152 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order as the latest 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and likeminded opposition parties is underway. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development on Sunday morning. Today, on the first day of the 48-hour blockade, 27 BGB platoons were deployed in Dhaka…
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By Waseem Shamsi in Dawn, November 8th, 2023SUKKUR: Soon after the PML-N and MQM-P announced an electoral alliance in Lahore on Tuesday, PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari, without naming the two parties, said he welcomed his opponents and their intentions to stand in the elections. He said PPP would field its candidates against its opponents in the elections. Addressing a party meeting at Gohar Palace in Khangarh town of Ghotki, the former president said his…
byImran Ayub in Dawn, Nov 4th, 2023KARACHI: In a conciliatory tone, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Friday invited the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) to join the Charter of Democracy (CoD) signed by two major parties in order to ensure that none of them solicit military support to come to power or to dislodge a democratic government. While talking to reporters after inaugurating a free diagnostic lab facility under the JDC Foundation, the PPP…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 02, 2023The Election Commission has written to the BNP and other registered political parties, inviting them to take part in talks that will be held on November 4, said sources. The commission will inform the parties about its election preparations and also listen to their recommendations, according to EC officials. However, EC Secretary Jahangir Alam yesterday refused to make any comment when a reporter asked him whether the EC…
Report in Dawn, October 23rd, 2023KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), which has been consistently vocal against attempts to delay the polls beyond the January timeline set by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), on Sunday took issue with the demand — coming from the PML-N and JUI-F — to postpone the elections even further. In a statement, PPP leader and former deputy NA speaker Faisal Karim Kundi said the ECP was bound by the…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Oct 28, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former federal minister Muhammad Ali Durrani is expected to present the proposals for turning national reconciliation into political cooperation in the next few days, aiming to benefit the people and the country in terms of economic recovery through national reconciliation. According to sources, former federal minister Muhammad Ali Durrani is working on helping the four major parties and all the other stakeholders out of present situation…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Daily Morning, Oct 26, 2023While it is up to the Defence Ministry to decide whether to implement the Parliament’s Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security’s recommendation to inform United States (US) Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung to refrain from making remarks regarding the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, the said SOC stated that their message has, however, reached the relevant parties. The said SOC had recently recommended the…
By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 26th, 2023QUETTA: Negotiations between the Balochistan government and the participants of a sit-in at Chaman remained fruitless on Wednesday as the All Parties Traders Alliance refused to call off the protest unless its demands were accepted. The demands include restoration of the permission to cross the Pak-Afghan border on production of the national identity card only. The government had announced earlier this month that no one would be allowed…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 17, 2023Washington wants dialogue among the political parties for a free, fair and peaceful election in Bangladesh due in January next year, said Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen yesterday. Momen’s comment came after a meeting with Afreen Akhter, the US deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. “The US government endorsed the recommendations of the NDI and IRI. They also spoke about dialogue bilaterally…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Oct 16, 2023 ,The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held separate meetings on Sunday with three parties, including the Left Democratic Alliance, to finalize its program for its one-point movement demanding the resignation of the government. In these meetings, Tarique Rahman, acting chairman of the party, on a video call from London, spoke to the leaders of the parties and talked about the movement. The other parties that participated in the meeting…
report in Nepalnews.com, Oct 15, 2023Unorganized, and weak political parties and leaders are blamed for rising corruption in Nepal. According to a report entitled ‘Corruption Reflection Nepal, 2023’ unveiled by the Alternative Foundation here on Saturday, corruption prevails in several forms in Nepal and the main forms are bribery, embezzlement, fraud, and extortion and abuse of power, nepotism, and favoritism are deeply rooted in Nepalese culture, back-supporting corruption. According to the findings of the study,…