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UN Security Council will hold a meeting on women’s situation in Afghanistan

By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, December 10, 2023A meeting about the situation of Afghan girls and women is planned at the United Nations Security Council on Monday, December 11th. The meeting will take place behind closed doors. During this session, the United Nations Security Council is expected to review the proposals presented in the report by Feridun Sinirlioglu, the Independent Special Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Mr. Sinirlioglu’s report…

Northern fishers to meet Southern counterparts

by Sumudu Chamara in The Daily Morning, Nov 23, 2023 * Seek collective measures for ‘lack’ of Budgetary support, new Bill, Indian poachingA group of Northern fishermen yesterday (22) revealed that they have planned to hold discussions with Southern fishermen in order to consider collective measures to a host of issues faced by Sri Lanka’s fisheries community. They claimed that the Budget 2024 has failed to provide the much needed support for the economic crisis-affected…

Date of tabling revised ATB uncertain

by Sahan Tennekoon in Daily Morning, Oct 19, 2023The date of tabling the revised Anti-Terrorism Bill (ATB) to the Parliament remains uncertain since it has been removed from the Parliamentary Order Book as it has not been tabled in the Parliament on 3 October as planned. Making a special announcement yesterday (18), Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana told the Parliament that the revised ATB has been removed from the Parliamentary Order Book since it…

Over half of all polling stations deemed ‘sensitive’

by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, September 27th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Around 55 per cent of the polling stations to be established for the upcoming general polls, planned to be conducted in the last week of January next year, have been identified as ‘sensitive’, Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) Secretary Omar Hamid Khan told a Senate panel on Tuesday. Moreover, the ECP secretary said the preliminary delimitation would be published on Sept 27. However, a period of…

Party pressing Nawaz to revisit ‘accountability’ narrative

Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 26th, 202• Insiders say Shehbaz, sons are trying to talk the elder Sharif down• Ex-PM says no changes to elder brother’s homecoming planLAHORE: With his aggressive stance, demanding the accountability of former generals and judges, making some within the party uneasy ahead of his planned return to Pakistan on Oct 21, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif is giving his stated position “a second thought”, party insiders told Dawn on Monday. “Although…

Nawaz ‘excited’ over comeback prospects

by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Sept 19th, 2023LAHORE: PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif on Monday told an online meeting of party ticket holders about his ‘excitement’ regarding his planned return to the country on Oct 21, ending a four-year ‘self-imposed exile’. PML-N leaders — including Maryam Nawaz, Hamza Shehbaz, Ahsan Iqbal, Pervaiz Rashid, Khurram Dastgir, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Azma Bokhari and Rana Sanaullah — and a good number of the party ticket holders attended the meeting,…

Kalanki-Maharajgunj road widening project in limbo

by Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 21, 2022The second phase of the Ring Road widening project remains uncertain as the work on the Kalanki-Maharajgunj section has failed to gather momentum ever after over two years since it was planned. Officials at the Department of the Road said that they were taken by surprise by the dilly-dallying of the Chinese contractor in starting the work on the site, citing various reasons. They said they…