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Global bodies controlling country’s politics: Fazl

report in The Express Tribune, December 18th, 2023.KATLANG: Lashing out at those silent over the atrocities being faced by the Palestinian people, JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on Sunday maintained that international organisations, including the UN, were controlling Pakistan’s politics. “International human rights organisations make our decisions, rendering our own Constitution and laws ineffective,” Fazl said while addressing an event in the Babuzai area of Katlang tehsil in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan district. The JUI-F chief regretted…

Senator Tarin bids farewell to PTI, politics

by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former finance minister Shaukat Tarin, a key figure in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, announced on Friday that he had decided to quit the PTI and politics for good, marking another setback for the Imran Khan-led party ahead of the general election. Mr Tarin, who was one of the heads of PTI’s manifesto committees, said he has also decided to resign as a member of the Senate. In a…

Don’t disrespect the vote, Bilawal asks Nawaz

Report in The Nation, Dec 3, 2023QUETTA – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said Saturday that if, God forbid, either the PML-N or the PTI comes to power as a result of February 8 general elections, they will destroy the country and the people through their politics of revenge. The PPP leader went on to say that it is not possible to run a similar campaign in 2024 as in the 2018…

Unified Socialist meeting discusses policy as it struggles to retain cadres

by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, August 25, 2023The central committee meeting of the CPN (Unified Socialist) in Kathmandu concluded on Thursday. Party members discussed different documents presented by leaders that evaluated contemporary politics and reviewed party committees’ performances at different levels and sister wings. The meeting has scheduled the party’s general convention from January 28 to February 1 next year. The meeting unanimously endorsed the political document presented by chair Madhav Kumar Nepal…

The season of swan songs

by Rashed Rahman in Business Recorder, Nov 20, 2022Outgoing COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa in an address to the Defence and Martyrs Ceremony at GHQ on November 23, 2022 made an unprecedented admission about the army’s unconstitutional interference in politics for 70 years, while criticising the political parties for their errors, which include being intolerant towards rivals. Most of the latter criticism was aimed at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) for crafting a “fake and false”…