by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Dec 15th, 2023ISLAMABAD: PPP Information Secretary Faisal Karim Kundi said on Thursday that party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will stand for the position of prime minister, and his father, former president Asif Ali Zardari, will be nominated for the role of president in the upcoming elections. Flanked by other PPP leaders he said that incidents of terrorism were on the rise these days only because of faulty policies of the…
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Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, Aug 9, 2023Majority of the MPs of Jatiya Party (JP), the main opposition party in the Jatiya Sangsad (national parliament), want to stay with the Awami League government in the next national elections as well. However, a section including the top leadership of the party is not interested in forming an alliance with the government this time. They are in favour of taking an “independent” position in politics. But this…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews’, July 23, 2023 at 9:06 PMThe Peace Research Institute Oslo said that the US had made a U-turn in its fundamental position regarding Afghanistan, from seeing the preservation of the democratic state and the political order that it had stood behind since 2001 as an absolute, to prioritizing its own “military disengagement.” The report said the images of the Islamic Emirate’s seizure of Kabul and the dramatic evacuations…
By Political Editor in The Sunday Times, June 25, 2023Contrary to earlier expectations of a virtual non-event, the United Nations Human Rights Council opened its 53rd session last Monday on a stronger note on Sri Lanka. It was pointedly assertive and dealt with almost all issues. UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Turk who presented the annual report declared, “In Sri Lanka, although the government has regrettably rejected aspects of the Council’s resolutions related to…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews, Apr12, 2023 at 9:22 PMThe embassy of China in Kabul shed light on 11 points that clarified the country’s position regarding Afghanistan. The point first, the embassy said in a statement, was that China respects the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Afghanistan and that it also respects the independent choices made by the Afghan people and respects the religious beliefs and national customs of Afghanistan. “China never…
report in The Island, Jan 16, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe told the “Voice of Global South Summit” on Friday (13) that India is in the best position to act as a bridge between the developing countries, which are facing a debt crisis, and the G20….. State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe attended the Finance Ministers’ session on 12 January 2023. In this session, Ministers exchanged views on financing the development needs of the Global South, achieving…