DHAKA — Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin on Monday ordered the release of jailed former prime minister and key opposition leader Khaleda Zia, hours after her arch-rival Sheikh Hasina was ousted and the military took power. The president’s press team said in a statement that a meeting led by Shahabuddin had “decided unanimously to free Bangladesh […]
DHAKA — Sarees, tea cups, TV sets, paintings were among the many things stolen by protesters who stormed Sheikh Hasina’s palace in Dhaka Monday. Protests in Bangladesh that began as student-led demonstrations against government hiring rules in July culminated Monday in the prime minister fleeing and the military announcing it would form an interim government. […]
NEW DELHI — With Sheikh Hasina reportedly resigning as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh and fleeing the country amid an unprecedented protest led by the students, jubilant crowds were seen waving flags on the streets of Dhaka, even as scores of agitators stormed ‘Ganabhaban’, the official residence of the PM. A section of the crowd […]
NEW DELHI — Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina landed at the Hindon Air Base in Ghaziabad on Monday, hours after resigning as the country’s Prime Minister and leaving Dhaka en route Delhi. Hasina arrived in India in a military transport plane of Bangladesh Air Force as thousands of protesters stormed and vandalised ‘Ganabhaban’ – the official […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s jailed former prime minister, Imran Khan, who blames the military for his ouster and 12-month-old imprisonment on what he calls trumped-up charges, said on Sunday it would be “foolish” not to have “excellent” relations with the army. Ahead of Monday’s anniversary of his jailing on dozens of charges ranging from corruption to […]
DHAKA — Thousands of Bangladeshi protesters demanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resign clashed with pro-government supporters Sunday, with eight people killed as mass rallies and violence erupted countrywide. Huge crowds of protesters, many wielding sticks, packed into Dhaka’s central Shahbagh Square, with street battles in multiple sites as well as in other key cities, police […]
DHAKA — Bangladeshi student leaders on Saturday said they would carry on a planned nationwide civil disobedience campaign until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned following last month’s deadly police crackdown on protesters. Rallies against civil service job quotas sparked days of mayhem in July that killed more than 200 people in some of the worst […]
PESHAWAR — Two police personnel on security duty of judges were killed and two others injured on Friday when their convoy was ambushed by terrorists in the restive in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwest Pakistan, police said. All the three judges remained safe in the shootout. The judges’ convoy that was proceeding from Tank district […]
ISLAMABAD — Jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has approved the formation of a “grand opposition alliance” by expanding the existing platform, Tehreek Tahafuz-e-Ayin-e-Pakistan, to act as a powerful anti-government movement, a senior party leader has said. Former National Assembly speaker Asad Qaiser, who addressed reporters alongside the party’s secretary-general Omar Ayub Khan outside […]
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has paid more than USD 3.6 billion in interest on loans to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the last 40 years, the finance ministry of the cash-strapped government has informed Parliament. This was revealed by the government during a meeting of the Senate’s Standing Committee on Economic Affairs on Thursday at […]