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BNP plans to bring all opposition to one platform

by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, Dec 4, 2023Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has planned to bring all the opposition parties, which have been launching movements against the government, to one platform. Sources concerned said this strategy has been planned targeting the voting day on 7 January of the 12th parliamentary elections. At this stage of the simultaneous movement seeking the election under a neutral government, BNP policymakers think the pace of the movement will intensify…

PML-N reveals plan to revisit 18th Amendment, drawing PPP’s ire

Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023LAHORE – The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party announced on Saturday that they have the plans to revisit the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. While speaking to reporters after the party meeting in Lahore, PML-N leaders Rana Sanaullah Khan and Ahsan Iqbal said that the party intends to implement the amendment in its spirits and wants to complete it by introducing further devolution of powers. “The 18th Amendment is…

ECP plans to rig polls through executive officers: PTI

report in The News, Nov 13, 2023ISLAMABAD: PTI Secretary General Omar Ayub Sunday alleged that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was planning to appoint Grade-17 and 18 officers from the Executive, with less than one year in their retirement, as district returning officers (DROs) and AROs. “This is a clear and blatant attempt to rig the upcoming general election on February 08. These very officers will be given a carrot of being looked after…

BNP to hold rallies, 5 road marches in September

report in Prothom Alo, Sept 12, 2023Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will hold several rallies and five road marches in this month as the party then plans to culminate the final movement in October. Sources said the BNP leadership considers September as the final stage of mass campaign ahead of the party’s final movement to topple the government. As part of this, the party will hold a rally in Dhaka on Friday and youth road marches…

Nepal to export 370 MW extra power using low capacity transmission lines

by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, July 31, 2023Nepal plans to export 370 megawatt (MW) of electricity to India through low-capacity transmission lines besides the existing only high-capacity 400kV Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur line as other under-construction high-capacity transmission lines have not been completed. Nepal can export a maximum of 1,000 MW through the Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur Cross-Border Transmission and the two countries had agreed to transmit a maximum 800 MW during the Secretary-level Joint Steering Committee (JSC)…

AL plans a new alliance

by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Jul 20, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted that there will soon be a new political alliance and it will take to the streets in support of the government, according to sources familiar with the development. Certain parties that believe in the spirit of the Liberation War and have shown interest in joining the Awami League-led 14-party alliance, will be in the new alliance. But the current…

BNP to announce plans to oust govt on December 10, says Khandaker Mosharraf

report in The Daily Star, Nov 29, 2022BNP will announce a set of programmes during its December 10 rally to ensure that the government steps down, said BNP Standing Committee Member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday. He made the remarks while addressing a roundtable titled “Strengthening Democracy in Bangladesh and the Role of International Community”, held at Jatiya Press Club. Mosharraf said, “The government will see a mass uprising and united movement. It will be ousted…