by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, December 9th, 2023• Nawaz blames former CJP, COAS, ISI chief for ‘lodging false cases, bringing misery on people’• PML-N agrees to seat adjustment with IPP for pollsLAHORE: PML-N supreme leader Nawaz Sharif has hinted that he is in no mood to eschew the demand of holding former generals and judges accountable “for ruining the country” by ousting him as prime minister in 2017. Mr Sharif’s remarks, made during the party’s…
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reportTAXILA: PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who is incarcerated in Attock Jail has ruled out “any deal to seek his release and asserted he would never leave Pakistan,” his lawyers claimed, after meeting the ex-prime minister. Talking to journalists outside the prison following the meeting on Saturday, Advocate Shoaib Shaheen said Mr Khan has “ruled out any deal” and termed the perception of him settling abroad as baseless propaganda to dent his popularity. Mr Khan stated…
report in The Daily Star July 13, 2023The ruling Awami League has said there will be no election unless it is held under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The announcement came from a huge “peace” rally near Baitul Mukarram mosque yesterday. At another rally only a kilometre away, the BNP vowed to unseat the government through a one-point movement. Speaking at the “peace” rally, AL General Secretary Obaidul Quader said, “We, too, have a one-point demand.…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 16, 2023The much talked about India visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has been deferred until May. Although the Indian side has already communicated the date of Dahal’s state visit, the two sides have agreed not to disclose it until some agendas get a concrete shape, officials from the Prime Minister’s Office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the Post. After the Indian side indicated…
by Anil Giri & Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, Feb 25, 2023Exactly two months after CPN-UML chair KP Oli rescued the prime ministerial ambitions of his CPN (Maoist Centre) counterpart Pushpa Kamal Dahal by ambushing the pre-polls five-party coalition, Nepali Congress appears to have again prised Dahal away from KP Sharma Oli’s embrace. After an over two-hour-long meeting with Prime Minister Dahal on Friday, Oli had departed Baluwatar bitterly disappointed as the Nepali Congress…
Report in Kathmandu Post, Feb 21, 2023 at 07:34 pmWith the decision of the CPN (Maoist Centre) office bearers on Monday to elect a new President through national consensus, Nepali Congress leaders said they have become more confident about their nominee getting elected to the top post. The presidential election is slated for March 9 and the Maoist Centre has entrusted Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal with the responsibility of taking the final call on…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 12, 2023The Nepali Congress, encouraged by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s proposal of electing the new President based on ‘national consensus’, has made a two-pronged strategy for the March 9 vote. After the Congress extended its vote of trust to Dahal on January 10, he floated the “consensus” idea. Congress leaders see their early success in the ‘suspicion and doubt’ that they have been able to sow…
by Tika R Pradhan in Kathmandu Post, Jan 25, 2023Former prime minister and Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba, who managed to make his party the biggest in Parliament, is currently facing severe criticism from in and outside of the party for failing to save the electoral alliance and thus keeping the party out of power. Party insiders and observers believe that after losing both the Speaker and deputy Speaker posts, the upcoming national presidential…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, .January 14th, 2023 Three days after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal won a vote of confidence in Parliament with an overwhelming majority and three weeks after his appointment as prime minister, Dahal is still struggling to expand his Cabinet by bringing all the coalition partners on board. The abrupt U-turn of the largest party in Parliament, the Nepali Congress, to give Dahal the vote of trust, according…