Report in The Nation, Dec 24, 2023ISLAMABAD – Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar Saturday assured that the government would investigate the complaints about hurdles to stop some people from taking part in the electoral process. In an interview with a private television, ……. Talking about the protesters from Balochistan who came to Islamabad, he said everyone had the right to protest with lawful behaviour. However, if a situation of law and order would be…
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report in ECONOMYNEXT, Nov 25, 2023– Sri Lanka is eying to earn $200 million annual income from foreign ships traversing in its water by developing Electronic Navigation Charts (ENCs), the State Defence Minister said as the island nation is in the process of coming out of an unprecedented economic crisis. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the Defence Minister, has already issued a gazette for navy to start the creation of ENCs, State Defence Minister…
Report in The News, November 01, 2023LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) has decided to start the process for general elections from Wednesday (today) and will seek applications for seats of national and provincial assemblies till November 10. The last date for submitting applications for national and provincial constituencies would be November 10, said PMLN Secretary General Ahsan Iqbal while talking to the media at Jati Umra on Tuesday after a grand consultative session of…
Report in Pakistan Today, Oct 21, 2023ISLAMABAD: Dispelling the impression of a delay in elections, Caretaker Minister for Information and Broadcasting Murtaza Solangi said on Friday that the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was performing its duty diligently to further electoral process in a responsible way. The minister was talking to private television channels in two separate programmes on current affairs. He said the ECP had already announced that the election would be held by…
By Indika Sakalasooriya in Daily Mirror, Oct 13, 2023China has taken the front seat in Sri Lanka’s external debt restructuring process making a calculated move akin to a chessboard strategy, catching everyone off-guard, by entering a preliminary debt deal with the Sri Lanka authorities. Despite being Sri Lanka’s largest bilateral lender, China remained in shadows as Sri Lanka initiated negotiations with its creditors to restructure its debt, following a default on its foreign loans in…
report in Daily Times, Oct 12, 2023 Kakar says govt won’t be responsible if someone legally barred from political processRuling out the possibility of any delay in general elections, Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Wednesday said that the polls would be announced and conducted on time. The PM’s statement comes amid growing demand from various quarters for immediate announcement of the poll date. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had announced last month…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 17, 2023Leading a delegation to the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal left for New York on Saturday evening. The prime minister is scheduled to address the UN General Assembly on September 21 and attend a reception hosted by US President Joe Biden on September 19. He will also address the UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit and Climate Ambition Summit on…
report in Dawn, Sept 15th, 2023WASHINGTON: While stressing the need for timely elections, the US has urged the Pakistan government to take the electoral process forward as per the law. In a press briefing on Wednesday, the State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller was asked about President Arif Alvi’s letter proposing Nov 6 as election day and whether this move would lead to another constitutional crisis in the country. In reply, Mr Miller said as it…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Sept 12th, 2023• President holds another meeting with law minister on election process• PTI urges head of state to announce poll date as per his mandateISLAMABAD: As a degree of uncertainty prevails regarding the timing of the next general elections, President Arif Alvi on Monday continued efforts to convince the caretaker set-up to expedite the process, only to be informed once again that it was the prerogative of the…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, August 29th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Assuring the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) and the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) that the process to redraw the constituencies of national and provincial assemblies will be completed ‘as soon as possible’, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday promised their delegations in separate meetings that general polls would be conducted immediately after the constitutional exercise. Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Sikandar Sultan Raja, who separately consulted Dr Farooq…