report in The News, Sept 21, 2023KARACHI: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader and former interior minister Rana Sanaullah has described former army chief Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa and former ISI director general Gen Faiz Hameed as “culprits of the nation”, saying that they should be brought to justice for causing political and economic instability in the country. In response to a question while talking on a private TV channel’s programme on Wednesday, Sanaullah said: “These people…
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By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews, May 17, 2023 at 10:19 PMQatar’s Foreign Ministry said that it has been trying to create a political path between Afghanistan and the international community. Speaking to reporters, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, Majed bin Mohammad Al Ansari, said that Doha played an important role as mediator, particularly at the end of the US involvement in Afghanistan. Referring to the recent visit of Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister,…
By Attiya Munawer in Pakistan Today, Jan 8, 2023Terrorism is the indiscriminate or disproportionate use of violence against civilian targets, a product of modernity and a globalization of the wrong meaning of ‘jihadism’ that shows no signs of abating. This idea terrorism is on the rise again in Pakistan and state institutions are very active in dealing with it, but the ongoing political and economic instability in the country is also a major obstacle to…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 6, 2023 Nearly two years after the dissolution of the powerful Nepal Communist Party that was formed after a merger between the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN (Unified Socialist) on Thursday formed a four-member task force to explore the possibility of unity among left-leaning political forces in Nepal. CPN (Unified Socialist) Deputy General Secretary and spokesman Jagannath Khatiwada said the four-member task force is led by…
by Rashidul Hasan in The Daily Star, Jan 1, 2023Jamaat-e-Islami sees the simultaneous movement with BNP and other like-minded political parties as a chance to revive itself and return to politics at a time when many want it banned for opposing the country’s independence in 1971. Pro-liberation organisations have long demanded that the religious extremist group be tried for its role in the crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War. Besides, Jamaat is infamously…
report in Dawn, December 17, 2022KOHAT: The law-enforcement agencies here have received credible reports about planning by a terrorist organisation of targeting public gatherings, political figures and Friday prayers by women and teenagers trained by militants. Deputy commissioner Furqan Ashraf confirmed theterror threat on Friday andimposed a ban under section 144 CrPC on gatherings of more than five people. He ordered the police and other law-enforcement agencies to remain extra vigilant to avert any unpleasant…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Dec 9, 2022The ruling Awami League yesterday drew heavy flak from its left-leaning allies for ignoring them in taking many crucial political decisions and also for already starting “electioneering” for the next national polls. At a meeting of the 14-Party alliance, they said the AL calls them only when it faces a crisis, said top leaders of the AL-led alliance. The leftist parties also said they are…