KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Tuesday he would send a note to the president on Wednesday requesting him to dissolve the National Assembly. Speaking at a ceremony in capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Sharif said: “After completing our (government’s) term tomorrow, I will write and send to the p...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s main opposition party on Tuesday threw weight behind its incarcerated head and former Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying he will continue to serve as its chief despite being convicted. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) core committee on Tuesday passed a resolution, appointing Khan as the party chair...
WASHINGTON (AA): The US said Tuesday it is “still hopeful” and “still trying to achieve a result” to get Niger to return to constitutional order after a military takeover. “We do still have hope, but we’re also very realistic,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. “We are still hopeful, and we are still trying [&hell...
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Florida Republican Governor and potential 2024 presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has declared that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. For DeSantis, who had previously been more cautious about the election results, this is a marked change in his rhetoric. DeSantis said he still has concerns about voting methods ...
WASHINGTON – Muslim civic engagement groups in the U.S., Emgage and MPower Change, co-organized a panel event on promoting female political leaders. The event included a discussion on the challenges and opportunities Muslim women face in politics and how to increase their representation in government. The event was part of a larger proje...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): A Senegalese judge on Monday placed French-Spanish lawyer Juan Branco, who was indicted a day earlier, under judicial supervision ahead of his expulsion to France, his lawyer and a senior justice ministry official told AFP. Branco, who is one of the lawyers defending the Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko, was...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger’s military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but reported no headway a day after an ultimatum from the West African bloc ECOWAS was ignored. Victoria Nuland, a veteran envoy and acting deputy secretary of state, said she met for more than two hours […]
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyers are attempting to launch legal challenges against his three year-sentence for graft that has ruled him out of contesting national elections. The former international cricket star was arrested at his home on Saturday and taken to jail for corruption charges he ...
BERLIN (AA): The German government has warned the military coup leaders in Niger against acts of violence against detained President Mohamed Bazoum. Speaking to media representatives in Berlin, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer made it clear that they are worried about Bazoum. “And that is why I would like to take this opportu...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The Bangladeshi government decided to amend the controversial Digital Security Act on Monday, renaming it the Cyber Security Act and removing the jail sentence for defamation after the journalist fraternity and human rights groups criticized it for being used to silence opposition voices. “We have transferred the ...
