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Speaker Agni Prasad Sapkota has decided not to file candidacy for the upcoming election. Organizing a press conference in the Capital on Saturday, Sapkota said that he will not file candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary election. Sapkota, who was elected directly from Sindhupalchok-2 in the Constituent Assembly election in 2007 and 2013, was chosen the lawmaker from Sindhupalchok-1 in 2017. He was an aspirant for the ticket this time also. Along with Sapkota, the Maoist Centre had recommended the name of Madhav Sapkota. Mohan Bahadur Basnet of Nepali Congress was also the aspirant of ticket from Sindhupalchok-1.  

CPN-UML and Janata Samajbadi Party have agreed to forge an electoral alliance in the upcoming federal and parliamentary elections. In an agreement signed between UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli and JSP Chairman Upendra Yadav on Friday, the duo had agreed to forge an electoral alliance on two seats in Province 1, 14 seats in Madhesh Province and one seat in Lumbini Province. The JSP has decided to forge an electoral alliance in Morang-5, Sunsari-1, Saptari-1, 2 and 4, Siraha-2 and 4, Dhanusha-1, Mahottari-3 and 4, Sarlahi-1 and 4, Rautahat-2, Bara-2, Parsa-1 and 2 and Rupandehi-4. Likewise, the UML and JSP have agreed to forge electoral alliance on four seats in Province-1, 32 seats in Madhesh Province, five seats in Lumbini and one seat in Sudurpaschim Province.

CPN-UML leader Bal Krishna Dhungel passed away on Saturday. He was found dead at his residence in Kadaghari in Kathmandu this morning. UML leader Nani Babu Budhathoki said that Dhungel died after he fell in the toilet. Dhungel was alone in the house as other members of the family had gone to Bardibas. According to SSP Bharat Bohara of the District Police Range, Kathmandu, a team of the Metropolitan Police Cricle, Baneshwor has reached the incident site. Dhungel of Okhaldhunga, who was previously in the CPN (Maoist Centre), was also a member of the first Constituent Assembly member. He was found guilty in the murder case of Ujjan Shrestha during the armed conflict.  

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan is likely to be arrested in foreign funding case, ARY citing sources reported on Friday.  The report comes soon after the other PTI leaders including Tariq Shafi, Hamid Zaman and Saif Niazi were arrested the same day. The media outlet said that Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah ordered concerned authorities to lodge a case against Imran Khan.  Dawn newspaper citing sources reported that the federal government has prepared a plan under which the police have been given a go ahead to put Imran Khan under house arrest at his Banigala residence after the announcement of the much-hyped long march.  Notably, PTI leader Saifullah Niazi was also taken into custody by the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Cybercrime wing on Friday, on charges of running an 'unauthorized' website, which was being used for illegal fundraising, ARY news reported. "After Shehbaz Sharif's press conference yesterday and the subsequent arrests of Tariq Shafi, Hamid Zaman and Saif Niazi, it is clear that the government is panicking and is scared after the announcement of 'Azadi March'," PTI leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain tweeted.  Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on Friday, Rana Sanaullah gave reasons for the detention and noted that the PTI leaders were not appearing before the FIA in the party's prohibited funding case.  Meanwhile, Imran Khan directed party workers to get ready for the 'Haqeeqi Azadi March' in Islamabad. After the announcement, the Shehbaz Sharif-led federal government had decided to call out the army and deploy troops in the capital city if PTI chief Imran Khan gave a call for the march. The ousted Prime minister claimed that there is only one way for Pakistan to come out of the prevailing situation and that is to ensure fresh general elections in the country.  While addressing a mega rally last month in Punjab's Rahimyar Khan district, Khan said he would give the final call for anti-government protests when the time was ripe, asserting that it would come when he is assured that he can "take three wickets in one ball". (ANI)