by Malik Asad | Nasir Iqbal in Dawn, December 28th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A judge of Islamabad High Court (IHC) expressed displeasure over the discriminatory treatment of police against the Baloch protesters and directed them to complete the identification parade of 34 detained protesters. On the other hand, lawyers expressed solidarity with the Baloch demonstrators and asked the government to release the protesters and accept their demands. During the hearing of a petition seeking the release of…
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report in Prothom Alo, Dec 26, 2023The central office of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party has been under lock and key since 28 October. The party’s temporary and permanent offices also remain closed in all but eight districts across the country. The BNP has been waging anti-government for quite sometimes while the closure of the party offices started following the events of 28 October when their grand rally in Dhaka was foiled and two people including…
report in Khaama Press online, Dec 2, 2023The U.S. Department of State, in its annual report on global terrorism, has stated that the efforts of the Taliban administration to prevent the activities of terrorist groups are not clear, and some elements of regional extremist groups are still active in the region. The annual report by the department, released on Friday, reveals that ISIS-Khorasan branch attacks in Afghanistan, primarily targeting civilians, continue unabated. Clearly, this report…
By Sardar Shafaq in TOLOnews Online, Oct. 22, 2023 at 8:18 PMKhost residents say that land, cars, produce and other goods are still being bought with Pakistani rupees. They called on the Islamic Emirate to stop dealing with Pakistani rupees and to punish those who buy and sell in foreign currency. A number of residents of Khost province, which borders Pakistan, said that land, cars, pine nuts, houses, food, gold, silver and many other goods…
by Ashutosh Sarkar in The Daily Star, Apr 14, 2023Both the victims and convicts of Ramna Batamul bomb blasts have been deprived of final justice due to legal tangles, even 22 years after the gruesome incident. Different issues, including repeated adjournments and reconstitution of High Court benches, have unusually delayed disposal of the case filed for killing of 10 people in the blasts. Besides, it is still uncertain when the appeals filed by the convicts…
by S Dilip Roy in The Daily Star, Jan 7, 2023It has been 12 years since Felani, a Bangladeshi teenager, was shot dead by a member of India’s Border Security Force and left hanging from the barbed fence of the border along Kurigram, but her family is still waiting for justice. Felani’s murder case is pending with the Supreme Court of India. It has not yet been included in the judicial list. On the dawn…