by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, March 16, 2023Frequent changes in the power equation are not new to Nepali politics where political instability remains a persistent problem. Following last month’s change in the composition of the ruling coalition in Kathmandu, provincial governments are set to yet another change in leadership in just five months since the general elections. Until a few weeks ago, the federal government was led by CPN (Maoist Centre), with the…
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by Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:42 PMThe “Commission for the Return and Communications with Former Afghan Officials and Political Figures” said that talented and honest former officials and political figures who return to Afghanistan will be provided with jobs. According to the commission, more than 500 people including ministers, governors and political figures have returned to the country. “The government is committed to considering capacity, talent and honesty of Afghan figures.…
report in The Dhaka Tribune, Mar 11, 2023A report by US-based independent watchdog group Freedom House, Bangladesh saw an improvement in the situation of political rights and civil liberties in 2022, compared to the previous year. According to the 2023 edition of the report Bangladesh stood under the category of “partly free” with an overall score of 40 out of 100 under the section “Global Freedom Score”. The report, titled “Freedom in the World 2023:…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 11, 2023Controversial businessman Durga Prasai is known for his strong linkage with the country’s top political leadership, including Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli. Now, it appears, he has deserted these communist leaders as he is now seen running ‘a mega campaign to save the nation, nationality, religion, culture and citizens’. Restoration of monarchy, Hindu nation and abolition of federalism are…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee/Ashik Abdullah Apu in The Daily Star, Mar 7, 2023With the ruling Awami League apparently reaching out to some right-wing political parties to forge a bigger electoral alliance, a gap with its left allies keeps widening since the national polls in 2018. As the parties the AL is trying to woo include the Islamists who have impressive vote banks, its left allies think such coalitions would only mean a deviation from the…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, March 2, 2023Ned Price, the spokesman for the US State Department, in a press conference, said that the Taliban had not fulfilled the commitments that they made in Doha Agreements, including engaging in political dialogue, fighting terrorist groups and respecting human rights. “We have seen Mullah Baradar’s statement, and we, of course, disagree with the key points in his statement. Namely, the Taliban have not fulfilled their commitments…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 23, 2023 In the run up to the presidential elections, Nepal’s political parties have begun their exercises to grab the top state position. Claims by several political parties to the presidential positions have thrown up multiple possibilities of who the next President and Vice President will be. The nominations for the top jobs are scheduled for Saturday. But the parties are still discussing the candidates as consensus…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 23, 2023Immediately after the Election Commission on Wednesday kicked off the presidential election process by publishing the voter list, a new kind of political understanding seemed to be in offing between the Nepali Congress and the CPN (Maoist Centre). A meeting between the two sets of leaders on Wednesday evening agreed to revive the old five-party alliance formed in July 2021 after CPN-UML chief KP Sharma Oli’s…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 20, 2023On Falgun 7, 2007BS, the 104-year-long Rana regime ended in Nepal as the 1950 movement ushered in democracy. Next year, the Interim Government of Nepal Act 1951 was promulgated. It was a landmark achievement. But since then, Nepal’s democracy has experienced many trials and tribulations. Lok Raj Baral, a political analyst, says the establishment of democracy in 1951 opened “our door to light from darkness—of our…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 19, 2023As the presidential election nears, the Loktantrik Samajbadi Party has been in negotiations with other political parties, projecting the party’s chair Mahantha Thakur as the next president. The discourse of a consensus president is making headlines of late. Thakur is rightly one such candidate, Loktantrik Samajbadi Party leaders say. Party’s executive committee member Keshav Jha said that they have been holding informal talks with the Congress,…
By Ansar Abbasi in The News, Feb 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Political leaders on both sides of the political divide showed unprecedented unity on two occasions during the last few years but were not prepared to sit together, even to save the country from default. In 2019, the then PTI-led coalition government gave three-year extension to the then army chief General (retd) Qamar Javed Bajwa. After the Supreme Court’s surprised intervention seeking enactment of a law to…