report in Pakistan Today, Sept 27, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar affirmed on Tuesday that the military will continue to play a significant role in the country’s politics unless civil institutions bolster their organisational capabilities. This persistent imbalance prompts military interventions in the daily affairs of the government, Kakar stated during an interview with TRT World. Kakar attributed this lopsided civil-military relationship to the long-standing deficiencies in civilian institutions over the past four…
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report in Prothom Alo, Sept 26, 2023The ruling Awami League has given BNP a 36-day ultimatum for it to give up its ‘evil politics’. It said that if BNP doesn’t come to the ‘right path’ within this time, it will take the people along and crush BNP’s ‘hand of evil politics’. Awami League said this was a last warning to BNP. Awami League held separate rallies in Uttara and Jatrabari of the capital yesterday, Monday.…
Arifur Rahman in Prothom ALo, Sept 25, 2023Rangpur: Rangpur is called the citadel of Jatiya Party (JaPa). It is home to the party’s founder HM Ershad, who had been in power for 9 years at a stretch. The JaPa candidate Mostafizar Rahman came victorious by a huge margin in the last mayoral election in Rangpur city corporation. Yet, many local leaders think JaPa’s heyday is over in the district. JaPa once had all MPs in…
report in Daily Mirror, Sept 12, 2023Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who has maintained a stark silence since his resignation in July last year is now eyeing to recapture and strengthen his failed image through a new political party which is now led by one of his close aide’s and media owner who declared his entry into politics yesterday. The Daily Mirror learns that Gotabaya Rajapaksa who has been given all the privileges and facilities as…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 19, 2023On Thursday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal said he will make his Maoist party better and stronger in the next three months just like in 2008, when the former rebel party had emerged as the largest force in the legislature within two years of its joining mainstream politics. Dahal, the chief of the CPN (Maoist Centre), said he would achieve such transformation by successfully taking…
by Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, Jul 24, 2023The opposing and inflexible stands of Awami League and BNP over the election system is deepening the political crisis in the country further. BNP is adamant in its one-point demand for the government’s resignation and an election time non-party government to be reconstituted. They are talking about reaching a final settlement on the streets. Meanwhile, Awami League is unwilling to relent on the question of election, insisting…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Morning, June 26, 2023The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday (25) stated that they have no knowledge of any impending Cabinet reshuffle, despite reports that one would take place once President Ranil Wickremesinghe returns to the island today (26). It was recently reported that the President, who was on an official visit to the United Kingdom and France, is expected to reshuffle the Cabinet of Ministers in the coming…
By Anil Giri & Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 26, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.Nepali Congress Central Committee Member Minendra Rijal is reputed for his straight and scholarly take on issues of national interest. He is also a strong internal critic of the Congress. The Post’s Anil Giri and Nishan Khatiwada sat down with him to discuss recent rumours about a change in ruling coalition as…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, June 17, 2023Jatiya Party (JaPa), under the leadership of GM Quader, for quite some time now has been actively endeavouring to build up slightly ‘different’ and ‘independent’ anti-government stand in politics. The government, however, has its misgivings and is reluctant to allow JaPa to move in that direction. Speaking to several leaders of Jatiya Party, it has been learnt that the top level of the government wants JaPa to…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 12, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.Ajambar Rai Kangmang is among the CPN-UML leaders who quit the party en masse to form the Federal Socialist Party in 2012. The new party’s goal was to champion the cause of identity-based federalism. In 2015, it merged with other forces. Kangmang then joined the CPN (Maoist Centre) and is now the party’s central committee…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 03, 2023The writer is a reporter covering national politics for The Kathmandu Post.A President, the custodian of the constitution, becoming embroiled in controversies, and the general public, legal fraternity, and intelligentsia reiterating the proverb “jun jogi aaye pani kanai chireko” (effectively, ‘they are all the same’) to voice their displeasure has become the norm in Nepal, a republic. “We have seen three presidents so far. All of…