by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 30, 2023Completing his half-month-long visit to China and New York, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal is returning home on Saturday from Chengdu. This is probably the first time that a Nepali prime minister has been out of the country for two weeks, amid several crises including doctors’ protests and teachers’ agitation, price rises ahead of big festivals, a struggling economy and poor governance. Also, the regular House…
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report in The Daily Star, Sept 25, 2023Two temples in Dhaka’s Nawabganj upazila were vandalised by unidentified miscreants on Saturday night. The incident took place at Bhurakhali village located on the bordering area between Nawabganj and Manikganj’s Singair. “The Kali temple was set on fire around 11:30pm. It was partially damaged as locals doused the fire immediately,” said Ananda Bepari, president of the temple’s management committee. After a few minutes, three idols were vandalised in…
By Numan Wahab & Sher Ali Khalti in The News, Sept 17, 2023LAHORE: Former chief minister Punjab and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was arrested for the 12th time on Saturday. The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Punjab, arrested him from outside the Adiala Jail, a day after an anti-terrorism court granted him bail in the Federal Judicial Complex (FJC) attack case. According to the ACE, Elahi had been arrested in four corruption cases, filed…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Sept 3rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The number of militant attacks in August was the highest tally for monthly strikes in almost nine years, according to data released by a think tank on Saturday. There were 99 attacks across the country, the highest number in a single month since November 2014, according to data compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). The numbers released by the Islamabad-based think tank…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, September 3rd, 2023QUETTA: The counterterrorism department (CTD) said it had killed eight members of the banned TTP and IS outfits in two intelligence-based operations conducted in Balochistan’s Quetta and Washuk districts on Saturday. A CTD spokesperson said the first operation was conducted in a mountainous area near Kurragi village of Basima tehsil in Washuk, a district bordering Iran. As soon as counterterrorism officials cordoned off the area and launched the…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 2, 2023This Saturday, the ruling CPN (Maoist Centre) is launching its Mission-84 campaign targeting the next parliamentary and provincial elections to be held after four years in 2084 BS. The party on Saturday will launch the special campaign, whose slogan is Janata Sanga Maobadi [Maoists with the public]. The ruling party is all set to kick off the campaign purportedly to bolster its connection with the voters…
report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 1, 2023 at 19:32 hrsA high level delegation of CPN UML led by General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel is leaving for China for a goodwill visit tomorrow, Saturday. The delegation is in a 12-day visit at the invitation of Chinese Communist Party, according to a press release issued by secretary of central publicity department of UML, Gagan Bista. The team consists of party standing committee member and chief of foreign affairs department,…
report in Dawn, August 27th, 2023KURRAM: Two police personnel were wounded after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a police vehicle, followed by an exchange of fire between suspected militants and the police on Saturday. Station House Officer Sadda Khalil Khan reported that a police van was patrolling in the area when the IED went off. He added that two police personnel, Habibur Rehman and Zakir Masozai, sustained injuries. “After the explosion, the police…
by Mohammad Al-Masum Molla in The Daily Star, Jul 31, 2023As long as it faced no street confrontation, BNP saw a huge success in its recent anti-government demonstrations. But because of the way Saturday’s sit-ins played out, the party high-ups are considering taking a step back from capital-centric anti-government programmes for now. According to some senior BNP leaders, programmes like sit-ins right after a mammoth rally were called too early. They said their Saturday’s demonstrations…