report in Dhaka Tribune, Jan 4, 2023Ganatantrik Bam Oikya, a leftist political platform, on Tuesday announced to join the street programs of the collective movement to oust the current government. “We have had a meeting with BNP today (Tuesday) for the third time as we got ready for the simultaneous movement on the streets. This meeting was fruitful. We engaged in the discussions with BNP very consciously to protect Bangladesh from the fascist rule,” said…
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report in Dhaka Tribune Desk, January 31, 2023 at 1:56 PMThe Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has given Jamaat-e-Islami two months to prepare the summary of the appeal against a verdict of the High Court that scrapped its registration as a political party. The three member appellate bench headed by Chief Justice Hasan Foez Siddique passed the order on Tuesday. Barrister Tanya Amir, who appeared in representing the writ petitioner, said: “We have taken…
Bloomberg report in The Daily FT, Dec 31, 2022Debt restructuring has become an exhausting exercise for troubled nations as bilateral creditors bicker and some investors mount legal challengesBloomberg: In May, Sri Lanka defaulted on its overseas debt. Amid political upheaval and human suffering, the Indian Ocean island is still awaiting a $ 2.9 billion rescue by the International Monetary Fund. Lacking resources to buy even essentials like fuel, the economy is falling into an ever-deepening…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 30, 2022The BNP and 32 other like-minded political parties will take to the streets for the first time today as part of their simultaneous movement. The procession will be held to press home its 10-point demand that includes the resignation of the government, dissolution of parliament, transfer of power to a non-partisan caretaker government before the next national election, and formation of a new Election Commission. BNP, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami,…
report in The Island, Dec 25, 2022Fresh discussions between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the opposition TNA has focused on the release of political prisoners and lands in former conflict zones, a TNA legislator said.TNA parliamentarian M A Sumanthiran told reporters that the discussion followed an all-party meeting held recently on finding a permanent solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic issue. “Last week we had an all party conference on reconciliation. We had a discussions with he…
report in Prothom Alo, 21 Dec 2022Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) has termed opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s 27-point demands as a “black deed” of legitimating war criminals, killers, radicals and militants and establishing political partnership with them behind the curtain of demanding political reform, reports news agency BSS. The party on Tuesday said this in a statement signed by its president Hasanul Haq Inu and general secretary Shirin Akhter. De facto opposition BNP has announced to…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 20, 2022Nepali Congress, which emerged as the largest political party from the November 20 elections, has begun the process of picking its parliamentary party leader. In a statement issued on Monday, the party said the election for the parliamentary party leader would be held on Wednesday. Earlier, on Sunday, the meeting of the party’s central work execution committee had formed a three-member election committee led by Joint…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 18, 2022President Bidya Devi Bhandari is considering calling the political parties to put forward their claims to form the next government forthwith. According to officials at the President’s office, Sheetal Niwas, President Bhandari is not in favour of any delay in calling the parties to submit their claims for government leadership by showing that they have the support of a majority of parliamentarians in accordance with Article…
by Shahzad Chaudhry in The Express Tribune, Dec 16th, 2022The writer is a political, security and defence analyst.Pakistan’s Afghan sore continues to bleed. As a policy, relations with Afghanistan have mostly bordered on superficial, aspirational and delusional. In search of an ideational chimera termed ‘strategic depth’ it has been a policy of unrealistic promise and zero return. The policy can essentially be divided over three phases. Till 1979 Afghanistan was a neighbour which shared ethnic…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Dec 16, 2022Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) Leader and Opposition MP Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam accused the other Tamil political parties yesterday (15) that they use the federal solution for the national ethnic question only to win votes, following which they would commit themselves to legitimising the 13th Amendment to the Constitution because India wants such. “As far as the Tamil parties are concerned, our accusation against these parties is that…
by Umer Gujjar in The Frontier Post, Dec 14, 2022Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Mahmood Khan held a press conference in Islamabad along with Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khurshid Khan and the Finance Ministers of Azad Kashmir, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab and leveled serious charges against the federal government. The Chief Minister said that the provincial kitty ran out of funds and the province had been facing financial constraints after the regime change in the center.…