MNTV News Desk The United States, Pakistan and India have congratulated Bangladesh Nationalist Party for winning February 12 elections. Brent Christensen, the US ambassador to Bangladesh, has congratulated the BNP after it claimed victory in Thursday’s election. “Congratulations to the people of Bangladesh on a successful election and to the B...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Friday claimed a thumping win in the first elections held since a deadly 2024 uprising, with leader Tarique Rahman poised to become prime minister. Final results are still to come, but the United States was swift to offer its congratulations to Rahman and the BNP [&helli...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – People in major Pakistani cities held rallies and demonstrations, as well as formed human chains, to express solidarity with Palestinians on the first anniversary of Israeli forces’ genocidal war on Gaza. Different political and religious parties, primarily the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the country’s main...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The transitional government in Bangladesh has lifted a ban on the Jamaat-e-Islami party, its student wing, and other associated organizations. According to an official notification, “no specific evidence of involvement of Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir, and its associated organizations with terrorism or v...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Major business centers remained shut across Pakistan on Wednesday in protest against high rates of taxes and rising power tariffs. Trade activities came to a standstill in all the major cities, including the capital Islamabad, on the joint call of trader unions and Jamaat-e-Islami, one of the country’s larg...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s president ordered the release of opposition leader Khaleda Zia late Monday, hours after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country amid widespread protests. A statement from President Mohammed Shahabuddin’s office said that all political parties had agreed to dissolve parliament to form a tr...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s law minister announced on Tuesday that the opposition Jamaat-e-Islami party and its students’ wing would be banned. Anisul Huq told reporters in the capital Dhaka that the government will ban the religio-political party and its students’ wing Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir by using R...
Peshawar, Pakistan — AFP Almost 6,500 candidates from 150 parties will stand in Pakistan’s election this week. Five percent of these happen to be women. The constitution reserves seats for women in both the provincial and national assemblies but few women contest election outside that reserved quota. AFP has interviewed three femal...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s Election Commission on Monday assured the opposition parties of reconsidering the election schedule if they decide to participate in the upcoming national election slated for Jan. 7 next year. “We will welcome the opposition parties if they decide to participate in the upcoming election. We will create opp...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) — Bangladeshi authorities on Sunday launched a fresh wave of arrests amid a two-day nationwide dawn-to-dusk strike by the opposition demanding an a neutral caretaker government ahead of a national election. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, and allies on Sunday started the str...
