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Interpol approached for Shahzad Akbar’s arrest:

By Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The capital police approached Interpol for assistance in the arrest of former adviser to the prime minister on interior and accountability, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, in a case registered against him at Secretariat police station under various criminal charges, police sources said on Friday. Sources said the investigators of the case, registered under sections 420, 468, 471, 385, 396, 389, 500 and 506 of Pakistan Penal Code, made…

Court issues show cause notice against Dahal, Bhattarai over use of child combatants:

Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 14, 2023The Supreme Court has issued a show cause notice against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and former prime minister Baburam Bhattarai over the use of children in the 1996-2006 Maoist insurgency. A single bench of Justice Sapana Pradhan Malla asked Dahal and Bhattarai, the then supreme commander of the Maoist combatants and the chief of “people’s government,” respectively, to furnish in writing whether they recruited child soldiers. “The…

Prime minister’s overture to Congress on key posts makes UML jittery

by Tika R Prdhan in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 15, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s statement on Saturday that he would consult the Nepali Congress on the elections of the President and the Speaker has created confusion among the coalition partners. Dahal’s statement, which he made while meeting a group of editors at Baluwatar, comes at a time that leaders of CPN-UML, his major coalition partner, are increasingly suspicious of the Congress’ decision to give…