By Bibi Amina Hakimi in TOLOnews Online, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:28 PMIran’s economic delegation has reached an agreement with Islamic Emirate’s officials and private sector representatives of Afghanistan on some issues in the areas of trade development. Iran’s Ambassador to Kabul Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said they have agreed to create an Iran-Afghanistan chamber, trade development, to provide of facilities in the transit sector and investment in the agricultural sector. “The creation of the Iran-Afghanistan…
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by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 21, 2023Until a few weeks back, the government and the ruling parties appeared to show a sense of urgency towards finalising the amendment bill on the Enforced Disappearances Enquiry, Truth and Reconciliation Commission Act. While the Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives was in intense discussion, a series of talks were held among the top leaders of the major parties. The ruling…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, September 2nd, 2023WASHINGTON: A Republican lawmaker has introduced an amendment to the House of Representatives’ annual appropriations legislation that would cut off funds to Pakistan to discourage the “crackdown on political dissent”. Republicans are a majority in the House. The amendment, proposed by Tennessee Republican Andy Ogles, would bar the US Department of Defence from providing assistance to Pakistan in the wake of an ongoing crackdown by the country’s military…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 28, 2023.https://kathmandupost.com/politics/2023/08/28/coalition-offers-house-panel-chair-to-rpp-eyeing-support-in-koshi-provinceAlmost eight months after the first meeting of the House of Representatives, the 10 thematic parliamentary committees are set to get their heads on Monday. Chairpersons of the two joint committees of both the House of Representatives and National Assembly, however, will be elected later. For the 10 thematic committees of the lower house, 11 candidates have filed nominations for the election of their chairs.…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 9, 2023Despite the home minister committing to a fair investigation into last month’s gold seizure, the main opposition party continued its disruption of the House of Representatives demanding a high-level panel to conduct the probe. After nearly two weeks of obstruction, the CPN-UML on Tuesday allowed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Narayan Kaji Shrestha to inform the House on the measures being taken to…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, April 07, 2023Three months since its first meeting, the House of Representatives is yet to constitute thematic committees due to differences among the political parties over the number of their representatives in each committee. The first meeting of the lower house elected through the November 20 elections commenced on January 9. The parties blamed the lack of regulations for the delay in the formation of the committees. It…
by Purushottam Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Feb 17, 2023The second-largest party in the House of Representatives, CPN-UML, has launched a two-month-long campaign called ‘Mission Grassroots’ starting on Friday, to strengthen the party organisation and broaden its ideological base at the local level across the country. On Friday, an orientation event for the leaders who would be working on ‘Mission Grassroots’ will be held in each of the seven provinces. To kickstart the campaign, party…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Jan 19, 2023The Pushpa Kamal Dahal government has reintroduced the diplomatic code of conduct that was unveiled in 2011.A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday decided to enforce the diplomatic code of conduct and make it mandatory for all ministers to follow while meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of foreign governments, should invite the officials of the foreign ministry, according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Bishnu Poudel. The…