report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 5, 2023The Kathmandu District Court on Monday issued arrest warrants against senior leaders of the Communist Party of Nepal led by Netra Bikram Chand ‘Biplav’. The court issued the arrest notice against the party chief Chand, standing committee member Khadga Bahadur Bishwakarma ‘Prakanda’, Kathmandu Valley Bureau in-charge Maila Lama ‘Prajwal’, and Raju Karki, chair of the All Nepal Peasants’ Federation Revolutionary. The court has asked them to be present…
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By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir in The News, Nov 13, 2023ISLAMABAD: Former three-time prime minister and Pakistan Muslim League-N supremo Nawaz Sharif has become the most sought-after leader by senior diplomats posted in Islamabad. About 60 diplomats, including ambassadors and high commissioners, are looking for an interaction with him after he returned from abroad following four years of exile, and received by people with fair amount of enthusiasm. The envoys are keen to ascertain PMLN supremo’s…
report in The Express Tribune, Nov 10, 2023Senior leader of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), Rana Sanaullah, on Thursday expressed willingness to engage in dialogue with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). However, he added that no talks can take place with those involved in the May 9 riots. Talking to the media in Lahore, Sanaullah highlighted the corruption case against Farah Gogi, a close acquaintance of former first lady Bushra Bibi, saying that there is a legal…
report in Dawn, October 7th, 2023SWAT: The police and security forces foiled a major terrorist bid by recovering a huge cache of weapons here the other day, a senior official claimed. Addressing a press conference at the Mingora police station, district police officer Shafiullah Gandapur said the weapons were recovered in a search and strike operation in Qadirabad area of Malam Jabba. Mr Gandapur said the seizure included a suicide jacket, 10 hand grenades, a…
report in The Express Tribune, Sept 26th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: US Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Rena Bitter would arrive in Islamabad on Tuesday (today) for talks with a host of Pakistani officials and to observe the consular operations at the US embassy and its consulates, the embassy said in a statement on Monday. The statement said that the Assistant Secretary Bitter would visit Islamabad and Karachi, besides undertaking a trip to Dhaka in Bangladesh…
by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, August 28th, 2023KHUZDAR: A senior officer of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), Khuzdar, and his team members survived an armed attack on Sunday late night after. According to police, Khuzdar Station House Officer Muhammad Murad Jamot, along with other CTD personnel, was going to his office when they were attacked by unknown armed men in Jaffarabad, a locality on the outskirts of Khuzdar town. The CTD personnel immediately took…
report in The Express Tribune, August 21st, 2023.QUETTA: Interim Chief Minister of Balochistan Mir Ali Mardan Domki on Sunday engaged in discussions with concerned authorities and senior colleagues to finalise the names of his caretaker cabinet members as sources said the process will conclude on Monday (today). Sources have reported that over the past 48 hours, numerous individuals from various political parties and sectors have met with Domki. It is anticipated that the cabinet members…
report in Dawn, August 14th, 2023SUKKUR: Jan Mohammad Mahar, a senior journalist associated with a private Sindhi newspaper and its TV channel, was shot dead by armed men riding a motorcycle near St. Saviour School on Queens Road here on late Sunday evening. According to the area police, the assailants shot several fires on Mr Mahar, who was travelling by his car. The journalist received several bullets to his head and near his eyes, the…
report in Dawn, August 8th, 2023TAXILA: Another senior lawyer was subjected to an attempted murder following the killing of two lawyers within the span of one month in Attock district. Former justice of Lahore High Court (LHC) Mohammad Basheer Paracha was targeted in Attock on Sunday evening by two masked persons riding a motorcycle when he was heading towards his house. The armed men fired three bullets at the lawyer which did not hit him.…
By MEERA SRINIVASAN in The Island, June 25, 2023Accountability remains the “fundamental gap” in Sri Lanka’s attempts to deal with the past, a senior U.N. official has said while warning that “as long as impunity prevails, Sri Lanka will achieve neither genuine reconciliation nor sustainable peace.” Referring to the Sri Lankan government’s plans to set up a Truth Commission, to probe allegations of war crimes and grave human rights violations during the country’s civil war,…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, June 11th, 2023GWADAR: Armed men gunned down the brother-in-law of a former provincial minister as well as a senior police officer on Saturday. Abdul Qayyum Buledi was shot dead by men riding a motorcycle while he was sitting outside his home. “Qayyum Buledi died on the spot after receiving multiple bullet injuries,” a Levies official said. He was brother-in-law of Zahoor Buledi, an ex-finance minister of Balochistan…. In another incident,…