By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Dec 14, 2023 AT 11:03 PMThe acting Minister of Borders and Tribal Affairs, Noorullah Noori, criticized the deportation of refugees by Pakistan, saying that Islamabad is seeking to put pressure on the Islamic Emirate through the deportation of Afghan refugees. Speaking at a gathering in Kabul held in the Ministry of Borders and Tribal Affairs, Noori called Pakistan’s decision to deport Afghan refugees “cruel”. “The neighboring country has made a…
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Report in Prothom Alo, Dec 09, 2023Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has written a letter to the office of the secretary general of the United Nations (UN), seeking its constructive and collaborative role amidst the ongoing pressure on Bangladesh. With Earle Courtenay Rattray, chef de cabinet at executive office of the secretary general, in the address line, the letter noted that Bangladesh is facing ‘undue, unwarranted, and vested political pressure’ from different corners ahead of…
By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Nov 25, 2023 at 8:08 PMSuhail Shaheen, the head of the Islamic Emirate’s Qatar-based Political Office, said the UN acted without neutrality in determining the seat of Afghanistan. In an interview with RTA, Shaheen said that the UN uses Afghanistan’s seat in the organization as pressure on the Islamic Emirate, urging the organization to handover the seat to the current Afghan government. “This [UN] is a big organization and they…
By Gulalai Hakim in TOLOnews Online, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:21 PMSher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, referring to the recent situation of migrants and their treatment in Pakistan, said that Islamabad deports Afghan migrants to put political and economic pressure on the Islamic Emirate. Speaking at the ceremony of the completion of the first phase and the start of the second phase of the Qosh Tepa Canal, he criticized the situation…
By ABM Ripon in Prothom ALo, Oct 3, 2023Lakshmipur: Before the 2014 election, all four of Lakshmipur’s parliamentary seats were in BNP’s control. The party leaders and activists would consider this BNP’s stronghold. Then in 2014, all four of these seats slipped away from BNP. Since then, Awami League dominates the district politics there. In 2015, Miah Golam Faruk was made the district Awami League president and Nuruddin Chowdhury the general secretary. A section of…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, Sept 28, 2023The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) wants to reach a conclusion regarding the upcoming general election by putting pressure on the government before the declaration of the election schedule. For this, the opposition wants to hold series of programmes in October to force the government to accept their demand before the declaration of the election schedule in the first week of November. However, the party is yet to…
by Nawaz Farhin Antara in Dhaka Tribune, Sept 13, 2023The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has devised a three-tier candidate selection strategy ahead of the national parliamentary elections amidst concerns of legal battles and imprisonment faced by top leaders. The party is actively working to prepare candidates for the crucial elections while simultaneously pursuing its one-point movement for the resignation of the government. Under the strategy, the top tier of candidates will include established party leaders,…
by Hasnaat Malik in The Express Tribune, Sept 1, 2023ISLAMABAD: With the apex court having dismissed the Elections Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) review petition against its April 4 order to hold polls for the Punjab Assembly on May 14, pressure is mounting on the ECP either to hold the general elections within 90 days or to approach the court to seek guidance on the question of conducting new delimitation based on the 7th Population Census.…
By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Aug 20, 2023 at 8:29 PMThe Deputy Defense Minister, Mohammad Qassim Farsad, said that the neighboring countries of Afghanistan are not returning aircrafts that were taken there during the collapse of the former government. He said their failure to do so is due to pressure by the US. Speaking at a press conference reporting on the annual activities of the Defense Ministry, he said that the number of these aircraft…
Washington appears to be getting fed up with the Afghan Taliban’s refusal to honour several aspects of the Doha peace deal that led to the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan and opened the door for the militant group to retake control of the country. Chief among the violations is the backtracking on women’s access to education and other human rights issues. US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West made a stop in Pakistan as part…