by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, Dec 21st, 2023WASHINGTON: In a two-hour engagement with US scholars and policymakers on Tuesday, Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Syed Asim Munir highlighted Pakistan’s desire to develop as a hub of economic connectivity without getting involved in bloc politics and the US-China rivalry. “Pakistan is a country of consequence both from geopolitical and geoeconomic perspectives and wishes to develop itself as a hub of connectivity and a gateway…
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by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in TheDaily Star, Dec 11, 2023A crucial meeting between the Awami League and its 14-party allies ended last night without any concrete decisions on seat sharing. At the meeting, held at the AL organising secretary Mirza Azam’s office in parliament, participants could not reach a consensus over the withdrawal of “AL independents” who would compete against AL partners. Frustrated by what they said was the AL dilly-dallying over resolving the seat-sharing…
Report in The Daily star, Nov 13, 2023Islami Andolan Bangladesh would march towards the Election Commission the day EC announces election schedule without political consensus and creating a level playing field, the party said today. It also said it would hold protest rallies in every district and city the following day of the schedule announcement. Ameer of the party Syed Muhammad Rezaul Karim said this during a press conference at the party’s headquarter in Purana…
By Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, October 27th, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan ruled out an extension in the deadline for the forced repatriation of undocumented immigrants, mostly Afghan nationals, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Thursday revealed foreign nationals residing in the country without identity documents would be kept at ‘holding centres’ before deportation to their respective countries. At a press conference held in the federal capital, the caretaker minister shared the details of a plan…
Report in The Daily Star, Oct 13, 2023Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Kazi Habibul Awal yesterday said that the election would be incomplete if BNP doesn’t participate in the election. “Though different small parties are taking part in the polls, it is undeniable that they are not equal to BNP…. If the party (BNP) doesn’t participate in the election, there’s no doubt that … a sense of incompletion might overshadow the election,” he said in an…
by Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, July 13, 2023The government on July 3 extended the terms of the two transitional justice commissions that remain ineffective for a year without their office bearers. Through the seventh extension in their terms, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons have got a new lease of life—their terms have been extended until January 24, 2024. As the law governing the commissions…
AFP report, April 5, 2023KABUL: Afghan women who are United Nations employees have been blocked from work in eastern Nangarhar province, the UN mission said on Tuesday, warning Taliban authorities its aid programmes are impossible without its staff. In December, Taliban officials ordered all foreign and domestic NGOs to stop women personnel working across the crisis-stricken nation. Several suspended their entire operations in protest, piling further misery on Afghanistan’s 38 million citizens, half of whom…