By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in ToloNews, Dec 31, 2022 at 10:56 PMAfghanistan’s politics faced many ups and downs in 2022. The Islamic Emirate’s administration was not recognized by any country in the world. Moreover, the travel ban exemption for 13 Islamic Emirate officials was not extended. This year, Afghanistan’s seat in the UN was not given to the Islamic Emirate. The United Nations General Assembly decided on December 16 that the representative of the previous…
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by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022.Two new regional forces have emerged in parliamentary politics from the recently concluded polls. The Janamat Party established itself in the Madhesh region while the Nagarik Unmukti Party made it to the federal parliament and provincial assembly from the western and far-western Tarai. Both the parties are keen on joining the government, but they have some preconditions. The Janamat Party has asked for several ministries in…
With the Local Government Elections a near certainty in 2023, new political alignments are being fast-tracked by all concerned parties. The rejuvenated Pohottuwa with Basil at the helm is working overtime at Nelum Mawatha to pull back its rural supporters who were alienated by GR’s reckless decisions, particularly about fertiliser use and other agricultural inputs. Thanks to those decisions, we had the lowest paddy yields for Maha in decades. Paddy purchases were chaotic and the…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post,30 Nov 2022Four months ago, media personality Rabi Lamichhane-led Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) made a foray in Nepali politics. Registered on July 1, the party didn’t just win seven seats under the first-past-the-post elections to the House of Representatives, but also has safely crossed the threshold to qualify as a national party. By press time on Tuesday, the party had secured over 11 percent votes under the proportional representation…
Editorial in Dawn, November 29th, 2022LAST weekend, quite remarkably, passed without incident. PTI chairman Imran Khan was able to conclude his long march peacefully, with a final show of power. He seems to have realised that there was little need for him to march into Islamabad for a confrontation with the PDM government, which in all likelihood would have entailed violence and clashes between his supporters and the police. Instead, he played politics with the…