report in The Express Tribune, August 18th, 2023.PESHAWAR: Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday held a daylong meeting on the joint border to discuss various issues relating to the transit trade, including the pendency in the clearance of goods. The border committee meetings are held regularly on a fortnightly basis to improve effective liaison and coordination for smooth operation of bilateral and transit trade on both sides of the border. At the meeting, the 15-member Pakistani…
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by Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, Aug 4, 2023Ruling Awami League and opposition are both taking up various strategies to keep each other under pressure. Both parties are focused on the streets. BNP feels it has succeeded in keeping the ruling coterie under pressure through its large allies and other programmes. Awami League, on the other hand, says they have managed to push BNP against the wall through their administrative and political strategies. Awami League…
By Asma Saayin in ToloNews, Aug 3, 2023 at 9:13 PMThe Acting Foreign Minister of the Islamic Emirate, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in a meeting with Qatari officials in Doha, called for more cooperation between Qatar and Afghanistan in various fields. According to the foreign ministry, In the meeting with Qatar’s Assistant Foreign Minister Lolwah Alkhater, both discussed the improvement of relations between the two countries. “Amir Khan Muttaqi met with Qatar’s Assistant Foreign Minister, Lolwah…
Report in ECONOMYNEXT, June 25, 2023Five civil society groups are calling for government action to investigate mass graves which they say contain the remains of so-called “disappeared” in various civil conflicts on the island. In a press release issued on June 22, the groups insisted that “if the Sri Lankan government is serious about dealing with the past it must commit to have international observers at all exhumations of mass graves.” The festering issue of…
by Selim Zahid in Prothom Alo, Apr 22, 2023The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been busy with various programmes throughout the holy month of Ramadan, but the party is yet to finalise the layout of its movement after the Eid. According to sources, a simultaneous movement will be announced after the Eid, which will be stronger than the previous ones. The party will announce field-level programmes along with climate-related meetings and seminars in May. This…
by Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 12, 2023Representatives from student unions registered their candidacies for various posts including office bearers and members of the Free Student Union in hundreds of colleges under the Tribhuvan University across the country on Saturday. The university is holding student union elections for 62 constituent and 523 community colleges under it on March 19. Aspirants registered their candidacies in 50 of the 62 constituent campuses on Saturday as…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Mar 6,2023The Foreign Ministry is once again under pressure for the appointment of various ruling party politicians’ relatives to diplomatic posts, Daily Mirror learns. In the foreign service, there are 98 vacancies to be filled, both at 55 Sri Lankan missions abroad and the Ministry in Colombo. Daily Mirror learns that the politicians with links to the government had sought to secure posts for their relatives, including children. The…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 20, 2023The Police Department has stated that it will have to consider providing security to the Government Printing Department only when the ballot paper printing process commences, and that officers would have to be reassigned from various police stations and duties as they would have to be deployed at the Printing Department for a longer period than usual. Responding to Government Printer Gangani Liyanage’s statement last week that…