Report in Dawn, December 27th, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Baloch protesters remain encamped outside the National Press Club to press authorities for the acceptance of their demands, some unidentified armed men on Monday night barged into the camp – right under the nose of the police – and took away the sound system used by the demonstrators. Despite denial of any involvement or knowledge of the incident by the relevant authorities, including the Islamabad police and the…
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by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, December 20th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: A powerful United Nations panel, which approves the accreditation of diplomats to its system, has refused to assign the Afghan Taliban a seat at the world body. This was the third time a nine-member UN credential committee rejected a request by the interim Afghan Taliban to assign a seat to its representative at the UN. After the takeover in Aug 2021, the interim Taliban government…
by Thira Lal Bhusal in The Kathmandu Post, December 11, 2023The writet is News Editor of the dailyPro-monarchy and pro-Hindu state forces have stepped up their activities. Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP), which has 14 seats in the House of Representatives, is the largest pro-monarchy force in the country. Thira Lal Bhusal of the Post sat with RPP chair Rajendra Lingden to discuss the party’s vision for a Hindu kingdom. Your party has stepped up efforts…
By Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Dec 7, 2023Colombo – With another inhuman case of ragging reported from Sri Jayewardenepura University, Higher Education Minister Suren Raghavan said many cases of harassment of juniors by their seniors within the universities go unreported but the government will leave no stone unturned in its attempt to eradicate the menace. Making his remarks in Parliament the other day, the Minister said the heads and facial hair of 15 students…
by Hasnaat Malik in The Express Tribune, November 6th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has rejected a petition seeking the declaration that the multi-party system was against the injunctions of Islam and should be replaced with a one-party one in the country. “It is the fundamental requirement of any consultation that all or any point of view must be brought to light through a consultative process in order to reach … a just and…
report in Nepalnews.com, Sept 10, 2023Member of Parliament Prabhu Hajara joined the Communist Party three and a half decades ago to end discrimination against the Dalit community in the society. He currently represents the CPN (UML) in the House of Representatives after being elected under the proportional representation (PR) election system. MP Hajara says that there was a lot of discrimination in the society towards the Dalit community in the past but many changes have…
By Sandun Jayawardana in The Sunday Times, Aug 6, 2023,The Prisons Department said this week that the country’s prison population had grown rapidly since the start of 2023. While there is room for only 13,241 inmates within the prison system, there are about 19,000 suspects who are in remand custody in addition to about 10,000 prisoners. The total prison population stands at about 29,000. Overcrowding is also seen as a factor in the recent spread…
By Lyric Li in The Washington Post, Aug 6, 2023 at 4:58 a.m. EDTBangladesh’s worst dengue fever outbreak on record has killed more than 300 people this year, overwhelming the country’s vulnerable medical system and prompting calls for a more coordinated response amid a spike in new cases. The mosquito-borne disease has claimed at least 303 lives and infected nearly 63,700 people across the South Asian nation, according to the latest government figures on Saturday,…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 30, 2023The need to revise the existing electoral system came up in the recent Central Working Committee meeting of the Nepali Congress. A number of central members demanded a complete direct election to the House of Representatives by scrapping the provision for proportional representation of ethnic populations, while making the National Assembly fully representative of the country’s diverse groups. Though the party made no decision on the…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, June 27, 2023The Janata Samajbadi Party is set to adopt a policy of lobbying for the directly elected presidential system in the country. The Madhesh-based party has also set its goal to fight for establishing a Parliament with fully proportional representation. Presenting a draft statute of the party on Sunday, JSP chair Upendra Yadav proposed the aforementioned form of governance for deliberations among party delegates during its statute convention that…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, June 15, 2023 at 9:21 PMActing Minister of Defense Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid denied claims of disputes within the Islamic Emirate and said that any disputes that harm the system do not exist in the Islamic Emirate government. In an interview with TOLOnews, Yaqoob Mujahid emphasized that reports made by international organizations concerning violations of human rights in Panjshir are untrue. “I have worked and served for a very…