Post Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 27, 2023It was a valiant effort at damage control. After failing on several fronts in the past one year, from combating corruption to service delivery to good governance, Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal announced a slew of promises in his televised address to the nation on Tuesday. Dahal, who marked his year in office on the day, addressed the nation, while admitting he is not satisfied with the…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 26, 2023PESHAWAR: Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has said that the country can move forward only with the strength and continuity of democracy and the parties of oppressive landlords and corrupt capitalists are an obstacle to the stability of democracy. “Jamaat-e-Islami wants the rule of law instead of individuals while the rest of the parties have the theory of power of individuals or families,” Siraj said while addressing a workers’…
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 Zahid Hussain in Dawn, December 21st, 2022The writer is an author and journalist.THE events of the past week present a theatre of the absurd. Hours after Imran Khan announced his long-awaited decision to dissolve the Punjab Assembly, Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi made it clear that he was not on board. Khan’s outburst against his erstwhile benefactor, former army chief retired Gen Bajwa, apparently was the reason for breaking his vows. It may not…