Presidential spokesman: No backtracking on decision to hold elections
RAMALLAH, March 15, 2021 (WAFA) – There would be no backtracking on the decision to hold the general elections, Presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh stated today.
Speaking to Voice of Palestine, Abu Rudeineh announced that the decision to hold the general elections would not be reversed because elections are a “democratic and a popular requirement” while affirming that they would be held based on clear and proper rules.
He added that the Fatah movement is determined to run on one unified electoral list in the first full presidential and parliamentary elections in 15 years.
Commenting on contacts with the new US administration, Abu Rudeineh said that the Palestinian leadership has initiated contacts with US President Joe Biden’s administration, which has voiced explicit support for the two-state solution and rejection to any unilateral steps, noting that the relation with the Biden administration w
Senior Shia cleric and general secretary of Majlis-e-Ulama-e-Hind Maulana Kalbe Jawad and Imam of Aishbagh Eidgah in Lucknow Maulana Khalid Rasheed Farangimahali condemned Waseem Rizvi for making controversial statements against the Quran.
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Syria has been in agony for the past 10 years, its self-inflicted torment expected to fester indefinitely.
A decade ago, on March 15, President Bashar al-Assad’s Baathist regime violently crushed peaceful demonstrations around the country, setting off a civil war in this predominately Sunni Muslim nation.
Syrians in large numbers took to the streets to protest the high cost of living, the soaring unemployment rate, and the glaring absence of democracy.
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NAI, an organization supporting open media in Afghanistan, said Thursday that in the last two weeks, the number of female journalists in Nangarhar, Kandahar and Balkh provinces has dropped by a staggering 90 percent.
NAI also said not only are journalists in Afghanistan under threat, but so too are their families.
In addition, NAI stated that the solar year 1399 has been one of the bloodiest years to date for journalists in Afghanistan.
Eleven journalists and media workers have died in the country this solar year and at least 50 Afghan journalists, including men and women, have fled the country.