report in The News, Nov 19, 2023LAHORE/MULTAN/ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: UK High Commissioner to Pakistan Jane Marriott on Saturday met PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari. Also, the US Ambassador Donald Blome held meetings with leaders of various political parties, including PMLN supremo Nawaz Sharif, PPP’s Yousuf Raza Gillani and IPP’s Jahangir Tareen, to discuss Pakistan’s political landscape and significance of an ‘enduring’ relationship between Pakistan and the United States. This was the second meeting of Nawaz Sharif with…
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by Imran Ayb | Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, November 19th, 2023• US ambassador Blome calls on Nawaz and Tareen in Lahore, Gilani in Multan• UK’s Marriott meets Zardari in Karachi to gauge PPP’s worries over elections KARACHI / LAHORE: In a flurry of meetings on Saturday, the envoys of the United Kingdom and the United States have called on leaders of various political parties, including the PPP and PML-N, ostensibly to seek their input about…
by Rizwan Shehzad in The Express Tribune, Nov 19th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: As the country readies for the crucial ballots next year, envoys representing key Western nations on Saturday sat down with linchpins of Pakistani politics — mainly from the PML-N and the PPP — chiefly to discuss the upcoming general elections and economic affairs. US Ambassador Donald Blome held a series of meetings with political figures, notably meeting with PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif, PPP’s Yusuf Raza…
Report in The Daily Star, Nov 16, 2023Awami League General Secretary Obaidullah Quader yesterday ruled out the possibility of engaging in dialogue with opposition parties, saying the time for dialogue is over. However, BNP Standing Committee Member Abdul Moyeen Khan told The Daily Star that BNP is always open for dialogue. “When will the dialogue take place? The election schedule is being announced today [yesterday],” Quader told journalists after a talk with US Ambassador Peter…
report in The News, November 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Wednesday criticised what he alleged as the wholesale auction of political leaders in Balochistan being done by ‘Jati Umra team’. He was commenting on former prime minister and the Quaid of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Mian Nawaz Sharif’s interaction with various political figures in the province. “It is a shameful practice in the country of switching political loyalties by non-political and non-democratic forces. After…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 13th, 2023QUETTA: The political landscape of Balochistan seems to be undergoing a shift again, with several key figures who had recently aligned with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) now moving towards the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which has recently been labelled with the epithet “king’s party” by its foes and some past allies. The departure of Mir Saleem Ahmed Khoso — a former minister in Jam Kamal Khan Alyani’s…
Report in The Daily star, Nov 13, 2023Islami Andolan Bangladesh would march towards the Election Commission the day EC announces election schedule without political consensus and creating a level playing field, the party said today. It also said it would hold protest rallies in every district and city the following day of the schedule announcement. Ameer of the party Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said this during a press conference at the party’s headquarter in Purana…
by Rajan Philips in The Island, Nov 12, 2023President Wickremesinghe’s political days are numbered in more ways than one. There are virtually none left for Mahinda Rajapaksa. The oldest of them, R. Sampanthan, is under pressure to formally retire. Vasudeva Nanayakkara has not been heard in a while, but he too belongs to the cohort of politicians who entered parliament in 1970 or 1977. They respectively came from Colombo, Hambantota, Galle/Kiriella and Trincomalee, and belonged…
Report in TOLOnews Online, Nov 07, 2023 at 9:26 PMMullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the deputy PM for economic affairs, in his meeting with Energy and Agricultural Jihad ministers of Iran, emphasized the development of political, economic, and commercial relations with Tehran. The office of the Deputy PM for economic affairs wrote on X that Abdul Ghani Baradar in a meeting with Iran’s Energy minister mentioned the visit of the Iranian delegation from the Helmand River…