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Election as social contract

Election as social contract

By Rosalin Ferrer-Garganera ‘On Target Media Concept’ reporter, Radio anchor/ broadcaster Philippines MANILA: Election fever is gripping the Philippines now. With less than a month to go when an estimated 67.5 million Filipinos will troop to election precincts and choose our next political leaders. Actually, about 1.7 million Filipinos who are outside of the Philippines […]

Uzbekistan gets elected to UN ECOSOC Commission on Science and Technology for Development

Uzbekistan gets elected to UN ECOSOC Commission on Science and Technology for Development

By Dilmurod Jumaboyev Editor-in-chief of Vodiymedia.uz TASHKENT: Uzbekistan was unanimously elected for the first time as a member of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for 2023-2026, said Bakhtiyor Ibragimov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United Nations. Elections were held […]

Shahbaz Sharif elected Pakistan’s 31st Prime Minister

Shahbaz Sharif elected Pakistan’s 31st Prime Minister

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative Islamabad: Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif, President of Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz Sharif), known as PML-N, was elected as the new Prime Minister of the country seeking 174 votes of the National Assembly members on Monday afternoon. He has replaced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, who was ousted from […]

Midnight Parliamentary Revolt in Pakistan: Imran Khan ousted from Premiership

Midnight Parliamentary Revolt in Pakistan: Imran Khan ousted from Premiership

During the history making session (Twitter) By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative  Islamabad: Imran Khan was ousted from premiership of Pakistan through a ‘Midnight Parliamentary Revolt’ – the no-confidence motion tabled in the National Assembly at the night between Saturday and Sunday. The assembly session was presided over by Mr. Ayaz Sadiq, a member of […]

Pakistan’s apex court restores National Assembly, annuls all actions taken by Imran Khan government

Pakistan’s apex court restores National Assembly, annuls all actions taken by Imran Khan government

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court of Pakistan restored the National Assembly on Thursday declaring the former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s decision to dissolve the assembly and Deputy Speaker’s ruling rejecting the No Trust Motion against premier, as unconstitutional. “…The prime minister did not have the right to advise the president to […]

Pakistan plunges into constitutional crisis

Pakistan plunges into constitutional crisis

Opposition members review their options (Twitter) By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s political crisis took a new turn on Sunday when the judiciary stepped in after the President Arif Alvi approved dissolution of parliament for holding the elections afresh on the advice of Prime Minister Imran Khan. Chief Justice of Supreme Court of […]

Korea: Yoon nominates ex-PM Han as prime minister

Korea: Yoon nominates ex-PM Han as prime minister

SEOUL: President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday nominated former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo as the first prime minister of his incoming government. Han is the first person to be named to the Cabinet of the Yoon administration, which will launch on May 10, YONHAP news agency reports. Yoon said in explaining his choice that the new […]

Pakistan’s National Assembly dissolved at PM’s request

Pakistan’s National Assembly dissolved at PM’s request

By Nasir Aijaz The AsiaN Representative ISLAMABAD: The President of Pakistan, Dr. Arif Alvi, has approved the advice of the Prime Minister to dissolve the National Assembly under the Article 58 (1) read with Article 48(1) of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, says a brief official announcement posted on the Federal government’s […]

War, destruction, death, peace… and then?

War, destruction, death, peace… and then?

By Dr. Hassan Humeida Kiel, Germany: Worn out and worried, abandoned and fearful people. Serious faces of the soldiers who feed themselves from sources of their own euphoria until the next raid. Commanders who push the soldiers into the front line to burn and smolder – some stay and burn with them and others slink […]

Upshot of the July 11, 2020 General Election in Singapore

Upshot of the July 11, 2020 General Election in Singapore

By Ivan Lim, Former AJA President, Contributor to AsiaN  SINGAPORE: In 2020, politics in Singapore threw up some surprises. Despite misgivings, the government went ahead, in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic, to hold a general election in which conventional door-to-door campaigning and open-air party rallies had to be replaced by TV broadcasts and online debates […]

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