By Ansar Abbasi in The News, December 30, 2023ISLAMABAD: The PTI is going into elections without settling its issues with the military establishment or distancing its followers from the party’s Imran Khan vs Army narrative. Following the arrest of Imran Khan and owing to the post-May 9 crackdown against the PTI, senior leadership of the party has become a bit careful. However, no serious effort has been made by the party to change the minds…
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Report in The Daily Star, Dec 30, 2023BNP Standing Committee member Abdul Moyeen Khan today said time is still there for the Awami League-led government to hold talks with political parties to get out of the political crisis. He also urged the ruling party to do politics understanding the character and psychological traits of the people of Bangladesh. He made the remarks while addressing the inaugural function of the biannual council of a faction of…
By Mitra Majeedy in TOLOnews Online, Dec 26, 2023 at 9:29 PMActing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that all lands of Afghanistan are under the rule of the Islamic Emirate and that there is no political detainee currently in Afghanistan. In his meeting with some of the Afghan refugees in Iran, Muttaqi said that security is provided all over Afghanistan. “The opposition does not have control even over one meter of land. All feudal…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 26, 2023ISLAMABAD: In a strange twist, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday faced conflicting assertions after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentarian (PTI-P) chief Pervez Khattak stirred the political pot by alleging he had been “offered” the symbol ahead of the upcoming elections. The claims raised alarms among observers and the supporters of the PTI, speculating that the ECP’s action to withdraw the symbol – amid concerns that the party…
by Malik Asad in Dawn, December 24th, 2023FORMER prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s acquittal in two major corruption cases — Avenfield Apartments and Al-Azizia Steel Mills — over the past month has reignited discussions about his potential comeback in politics. While the development has cleared his path to run in the upcoming elections and reclaim his role as PML-N’s president, it may not be a walk in Hyde Park for Mr Sharif. However, until things get…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 18, 2023The CPN-UML’s 18-day mid-hill march concluded in Chiwabhanjyang in Panchthar district on Sunday with a national flag hoisting ceremony. By raising the national flag near the India border in Sikkim, the party has tried to convey that nationalism remains a key element of its political agenda. The KP Sharma Oli-led party had fared excellently in the 2017 general election—the first after the promulgation of the constitution—largely attributed to…
report in TOLOnews, Dec 16, 2023 at 8:35 PMThe UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his new report titled: “The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security” addressed issues including political progress, security, regional cooperation, human rights, and humanitarian aid. This report mentioned that demands to establish a comprehensive government in Afghanistan have been ignored by the Islamic Emirate, and the rights of women and girls have also been limited. The report…
by Mubashir Hassan in The Nation, Dec 15, 2023LAHORE – The PML-N supremo Mian Nawaz Sharif Thursday expressed his optimism that people would back his party in the upcoming general elections to alleviate themselves from the troubles they had endured as a consequence of his political persecution in the last five years. “The people themselves serve as the court, and hopefully, they will pronounce their judgment on February 8”, he said in his maiden televised…
report in The Nation, Dec 14, 2023Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) supremo Maulana Fazlur Rehman said on Wednesday that his political party was ready to form a coalition government with the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N). Maulana Fazlur Rehman told the journalists that JUI-F has not held talks with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) regarding seat adjustment and electoral alliance. He said that common citizens and law enforcers were being martyred in Dera Ismail Khan, Tank…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Dec 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – The beleaguered Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday decided to speed up its political activities countrywide and special instructions were issued to the party’s Punjab chapter to start preparations for holding workers’ conventions across the province after such “successful” gatherings in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa (KP). The PTI Core Committee in a meeting congratulated all the party’s officials including the newly elected Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan for…
Report in Dawn, December 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has ruled out possibility of forming electoral alliance with any political party for upcoming general polls to be held on February 8. He said that JI could not make alliance with those, who had destroyed the national institutions. He said that the three political parties were groomed in military nurseries and wasted 40 years of nation. According to a statement, he was addressing a convention…