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Siraj rules out electoral alliance with any political party:

Report in Dawn, December 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has ruled out possibility of forming electoral alliance with any political party for upcoming general polls to be held on February 8. He said that JI could not make alliance with those, who had destroyed the national institutions. He said that the three political parties were groomed in military nurseries and wasted 40 years of nation. According to a statement, he was addressing a convention…

US letter to political parties: AL rejects dialogue, BNP open for talks:

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…

PML-N open to new electoral alliances

by Rameez Khan in The Express Tribune, Nov 5, 2023LAHORE: With the PPP officially dropping hints about the possibility of forging alliances against the PML-N, the latter also claims to be open to the possibility of forging alliances in Sindh and elsewhere to increase its chances of success in the upcoming general elections scheduled for February 8 next year. PML-N leader and former Sindh governor Muhammad Zubair said the PML-N will field candidates throughout the…

Eyes on election, not talks or movement

by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Jul 15, 2023The ruling Awami League thinks the main challenge for the party does not stem from the BNP’s one-point movement, but from the possibility of BNP joining the national polls at the last minute. Although the BNP says it will not take part in the polls under the Sheikh Hasina-led government, the AL leadership says the BNP has already started making preparations to contest the parliamentary…

Unified Socialist forms task force amid left unity talks

Report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 6, 2023 Nearly two years after the dissolution of the powerful Nepal Communist Party that was formed after a merger between the CPN-UML and the CPN (Maoist Centre), the CPN (Unified Socialist) on Thursday formed a four-member task force to explore the possibility of unity among left-leaning political forces in Nepal. CPN (Unified Socialist) Deputy General Secretary and spokesman Jagannath Khatiwada said the four-member task force is led by…