by Javid ur Rahman in The Nation, Dec 9, 2023ISLAMABAD – The top election body has rejected Akbar S. Babar’s appeal for the re-conduct of the recently conducted intra-party elections of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). The ECP’s five-member bench led by Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja announced this decision after hearing the case. The bench heard a series of petitions filed by PTI founding members Akbar S. Babar, Tahir Nawaz, Noreen Farooq, and others,…
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by Khushboo Razdan in SCMP, Sept 19, 2023New York: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday declared the Aukus security pact between Australia, Britain and the US “a mistake” while rejecting any concerns over Beijing’s perceived influence on his debt-ridden island nation. “It is a military alliance moved against one country – China,” he said at an event hosted by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York on the sidelines of the United…
By Norman Palihawadane in The Island, Sept 13, 2023The Catholic Church yesterday (12) rejected outright the special investigative committee proposed by President Ranil Wickremesinghe to probe the allegations raised by Channel 4 pertaining to the Easter Sunday carnage. Church Spokesman Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini said that the Church did not believe that such committees would be able to deliver the truth. The priest said that it would be an exercise that would waste time and…
By Ahmad Yosufkhail in TOLOnews Online, June 11, 2023 at 8:05 PMIn reaction to a report by the monitoring and analysis team of the sanctions committee of the United Nations Security Council about the situation in Afghanistan, the Islamic Emirate in a statement on Sunday called the findings of the report “biased and far from the reality.” “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers the continuation of UN Security Council sanctions and such reports as full…
report in Daily Mirror, Mar 6, 2023 Sri Lanka has once again rejected the resolution 51/1 against Sri Lanka adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in October last year, but said Sri Lanka will remain open to discussion with the Council. “A series of unhelpful resolutions have been adopted by the HRC, the latest being resolution 51/1, without our consent as the country concerned. I reiterate Sri Lanka´s position, which was stated…