By Mariana Baabar in The News, December 06, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Special Representative on Afghanistan Asif Durrani and Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes, US Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, in their meeting at the Foreign Office on Tuesday focused specifically on Pakistan’s policy of the return to Afghanistan of all undocumented Afghans and those assured by Washington they would be eligible for consideration under the US Refugee Admissions Programme (USRAP). “It was a…
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by Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, Sept 29th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking around $11bn in bilateral support from China and Saudi Arabia as the caretakers push for expanding the tax net effectively to retail, agricultural and real estate sectors while continuing a crackdown on illegal currency movements to fill external and domestic resource gaps so that the IMF programme remains on track to ensure economic stability until an elected government takes power. This was part of…
by Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, Sep 25, 2023Questions were raised from various quarters after the date for the MCC Compact’s entry-into-force was fixed for August-end even as land acquisition has yet to begin for the transmission line project to be implemented under the US programme. Acquiring land has been a persistent challenge for infrastructure projects, particularly transmission line projects. The compact entering into force on August 30 means the projects should be…
by Sahan Tennekoon in The Daily Morning, Sept 5, 2023A new political alliance, initiated by Opposition Parliamentarian Nimal Lanza and led by Opposition MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, is to commence key discussions with major political parties representing Parliament next month (October) once it completes drafting their future programme, which is to be unveiled in the same month. Speaking to The Daily Morning yesterday (4), Yapa confirmed that the MPs who support the new alliance had…
report on The Daily Star online, July 29, 2023 at 09.52 pmThe BNP will hold rallies in districts and cities across the country on July 31 protesting the “attacks” by police and ruling Awami League men on BNP’s sit-in programme. “We planned to hold the programme tomorrow, Sunday. However, the Awami League has already declared its programme on that day. Therefore, we are now announcing our programme for Monday. We decided not to create a…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 21, 2023On Monday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal got a vote of confidence for the second time in 70 days, this time with a different set of coalition partners. With the change in the major constituents of the coalition–the Nepali Congress, the largest party in parliament, replacing the second largest CPN-UML–the government is all set to move ahead in a new direction. “Today, the prime minister…
By Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, March 21, 2023On Monday, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal got a vote of confidence for the second time in 70 days, this time with a different set of coalition partners. With the change in the major constituents of the coalition–the Nepali Congress, the largest party in parliament, replacing the second largest CPN-UML–the government is all set to move ahead in a new direction. “Today, the prime minister…
report in The Morning, Jan 23, 2023The Export-Import Bank of China (EXIM) has agreed, in writing, to support Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring programme, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe said over the weekend, while it was also reported that the EXIM Bank has agreed to a two-year moratorium on Sri Lankan debt. Stating that the debt restructuring plan has been successful thus far, Semasinghe observed that the Government of Sri Lanka aims to obtain International…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 30, 2022Somebody rightly said that justice delayed is justice denied. On August 8, 2021, the five-party coalition government led by Sher Bahadur Deuba unveiled its common minimum programme which included a pledge to conclude the peace process by expediting the transitional justice process. The Nepali Congress, CPN (Maoist Centre), CPN (Unified Socialist), Janata Samajbadi Party and Rastriya Janamorcha claimed that the long pending task of providing justice…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 30, 2022Three days after Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal assumed office, a mechanism to support the government has been formed under the leadership of CPN-UML chair KP Sharma Oli. The mechanism is expected to support the Dahal-led government. As its first task, the panel will prepare the government’s common minimum programme within the next five days. A meeting of the coalition partners on Thursday agreed to…
Report in The Island, Dec 10, 2022The IMF could finalise Sri Lanka’s financing package within three weeks of the country’s main bilateral creditors formally informing the IMF that they would help Sri Lanka restructure its debt, Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe, said on Thursday appearing on a TV programme. Dr. Weerasinghe said that Sri Lanka had already provided adequate information to the country’s main bilateral creditors and they were in a position…