By Ali Asif Shawon in Dhaka Tribune,Dec 14, 2023Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina will begin her election campaign in Sylhet by visiting the Shrines of Hazrat Shah Jalal (R) and Hazrat Shah Paran on December 20. Subsequently, an electoral rally will take place at the Sylhet Alia Madrasa field, Awami League Presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak said during his inspection of the madrasa field in Sylhet on Wednesday. “The country is moving…
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By Mariana Baabar in The News, December 06, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Special Representative on Afghanistan Asif Durrani and Ambassador Julieta Valls Noyes, US Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, in their meeting at the Foreign Office on Tuesday focused specifically on Pakistan’s policy of the return to Afghanistan of all undocumented Afghans and those assured by Washington they would be eligible for consideration under the US Refugee Admissions Programme (USRAP). “It was a…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 12, 2023The visiting delegation of the CPN-UML raised the map issue with the leaders of the Communist Party of China during a meeting in Beijing on Monday. A high-level UML delegation led by the party’s General Secretary Shankar Pokhrel met with several CPC leaders as part of the exchange programme between the two Communist parties. “China should support Nepal’s new map [unveiled in May 2020],” Rajesh Rai, who is…
by Nurul Islam Hasib in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 18, 2023Progress has been made towards a free and fair election in Bangladesh, but with approximately five months left before the next parliamentary contest, more work is necessary to create an environment in which parties and citizens of all creeds and ideologies trust the political process, Geoffrey Macdonald, a visiting expert of the South Asia programs of the US Institute of Peace, has said. Macdonald made the…
report in Khaama Press online, August 17, 2023Qatar’s Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Counterterrorism and Mediation in Conflict Resolution, Mutlaq bin Majed al-Qahtani met on Wednesday with Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) for Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva, who is visiting the country. According to an official statement from Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, the two diplomats held an extensive discussion that covered the collaborative initiatives between Qatar and the…
by Touqir Hussain in Dawn, March 15th, 2023The writer, a former ambassador, is adjunct professor Georgetown University and Visiting Senior Research Fellow National University of Singapore.REGARDLESS of whoever ruled Afghanistan, the country has always been a problem for Pakistan. The latter’s strategic planners may have hoped that with the Afghan Taliban’s return to power the problem would be resolved. Instead, it has worsened. The Taliban’s rise has reflected the larger failure of Afghanistan that has…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, February 15, 2023Whenever there are high-level visits from New Delhi, the media, political circles and talking heads in Kathmandu are eager to know what message the visiting dignitaries passed on to the Nepali political leadership. Accordingly, Indian Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra’s two-day visit (Feb 13-14) to Kathmandu got a lot of attention. Kwatra, who served as Indian envoy to Kathmandu until February last year, is someone familiar with the…