by Kamran Yusuf in The Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023ISLAMABAD: At the start of the year, which coincidentally happened to be two months after the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) announced the end of a ceasefire with the Pakistani government, Peshawar’s Red Zone was rocked by a suicide blast that killed hundreds. Although the TTP initially claimed responsibility for the heinous attack and later retracted the statement, the incident set the tone for Pakistan’s relations with…
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Report in TOLOnews Online Dec 29, 2023 at 8:57 PMEmomali Rahmon, the president of Tajikistan, recently said at a conference that he has established 75 security checkpoints on the border with Afghanistan in the past year. Emomali Rahmon said: “In one year, 75 high-quality border security checkpoints were built on the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan.” At the same time, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan has said that Islamabad will…
by Om Prakash Thakur in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 17, 2023.Farmers in Sarlahi staged a protest in Hariwan Municipality on Saturday afternoon, demanding the government provide them with a subsidy amount of sugarcane sold last year and fix the minimum support price for this year. Protesters rallied from Krishna Chowk to Indu Shankar Sugar Mills carrying sugarcane and converged in an assembly. The farmers demanded the government fix the minimum support price of sugarcane Rs750…
by Wajih Ahmad Sheikh in Dawn, December 8th, 2023LAHORE: Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday petitioned the Lahore High Court challenging his five-year disqualification in the Toshakhana case by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) and the cancellation of PTI’s party polls held last year. In the petition, the former prime minister, presently confined at Adiala Jail, said the National Assembly speaker forwarded a reference against Mr Khan in August last year, alleging…
Only a small number of Sri Lankans might have taken note of the recent reports that around 100 Indian fishermen and over a dozen Indian fishing vessels had been apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy for engaging in bottom trawling activities in the island’s waters during the first eight months of the year. Since this has been a routine issue that occasionally makes headlines, people of this country tend to ignore it as something that…
By Bibi Amina Hakimi in ToloNews, Sept 5, 2023 at 5:48 PMOfficials of the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that exports to Pakistan have decreased by $66 million compared to last year. They added that the most exported items are coal, cotton, fresh fruit, and dried fruit, and in the first five months of the solar year the trade with Pakistan reached $842 million. “Our trade with all countries is running normally, especially with…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Aug 26, 2023Three hundred and eighty three Lankans had been killed up to 18 August this year in 373 violent attacks, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said yesterday.The comparative figures for 2021 and 2022 were 525 to 550 brutal killings, he said. “People often focus on incidents related to the underworld, but incidents that occurred as a result of family disputes, land disputes, sudden bouts of anger and other…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, July 20, 2023The Nepali Congress leadership has come under withering attack from its own leaders at the ongoing central working committee meeting, which started on Monday in Lalitpur. The meeting is taking place after almost a year, although the party’s statute requires that it be held every two months. Those speaking on Tuesday and Wednesday at the meeting, which was broadcast live on social media for the first…