Report in TOLOnews Online, Dec 27, 2023 at 9:04 PMA group in Pakistan that defends the rights of Afghan immigrants told TOLOnews that about 140 immigrants who were awaiting visas from the US and other nations have been deported from Pakistan. According to the group, these immigrants wanted to go to the US after getting visas, among them were some journalists. “Around 140 Afghan immigrants who were supposed to ne transferred to US or some…
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report in Prothom Alo, Dec 24, 2023The conflict over electioneering for the upcoming 12th parliamentary election has been escalating with campaigns and rallies of rival candidates being attacked, workers being beaten and threatened. A person was hacked to death in Madaripur’s Kalkini on Saturday. Independent candidate Tahmina claimed the victim to be her party worker. An incident of shooting took place at the house of a worker of an independent candidate in Munshiganj. Clashes took…
report in The News, Dec 04, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the United States are holding consultations over several issues, including the situation in Afghanistan, said the Foreign Office in a statement issued on Sunday. FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch said the two countries are also exchanging visits in a bid to speed up the consultation process, adding that important US officials are visiting Pakistan over the coming days. Islamabad has continuously blamed Kabul for rising terrorist…
by Zulqernain Tahir in Dawn, Nov 26th, 2023LAHORE: PPP leader Asif Ali Zardari on Saturday formed different committees to reach out to ‘electables’ and other political players to formidably place the party in the 2024 elections. “President PPPP @AAliZardari has formed a committee for dialogues with other political personalities with immediate effect,” party’s information secretary Faisal Karim Kundi said on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. Nayyer Hussain Bukhari, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Faisal Karim Kundi, Muhammad…
report in Prothom Alo, Oct 30, 2023A total of 28 cases have been filed over the incident of violence and death of policeman centering the BNP’s grand rally on 28 October. BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has been accused in several cases and most of the leaders of the party were named in one case or other. The cases were filed on Sunday. Allegations of killing policeman, exploding cocktails with attempt to kill…
report in The Daily Starm Aug 26m 2023Around five lakh people might have been scammed by the cyber ponzi scheme Metaverse Foreign Exchange (MTFE), losing several thousand crores of taka, suspect the Criminal Investigation Department of police. Most of the victims are from Dhaka, Barishal, Rajshahi, Cumilla, Naogaon, Kushtia, Brahmanbaria and Satkhira, said CID following primary investigation. The aggrieved are advised to contact the CID Cyber Support Center to inform and report the fraudsters, said…
by Areesha Rehan | Hawwa Fazal | Wara Irfan in Dawn online, August 18, 2023On Wednesday, August 16, a mob stormed and vandalised five churches, several homes of Christian families and even a cemetery in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala district. The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Holy Quran had been found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, where two Christian brothers resided. Soon after, members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik…
report in The Himalayan Times, July 7, 2023KATHMANDU, JULY 6The ruling parties threw their weight behind Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal who had become the target of opposition parties, especially the CPN- UML, over the PM’s alleged remarks that Indian national Pritam Singh had gone to New Delhi several times seeking to make him the prime minister at least once. Top leaders of the ruling alliance held a meeting and decided that the PM would…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, July 6, 2023Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba on Wednesday called the party’s central working committee meeting for July 12. The meeting had been pending for a year and is expected to see heated debates over several issues that the party has been confronting. A meeting of Deuba, vice-presidents Purna Bahadur Khadka and Dhanraj Gurung, and general secretaries Gagan Thapa and Bishwa Prakash Sharma took a decision to that effect.…