Detectives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested former Awami League-backed lawmaker, Shahidul Islam Milon elected from Jashore Sadar constituency, from Dhaka’s Gulistan area on Thursday. Talibur Rahman, deputy commissioner (Media) of the DMP, confirmed the matter saying that a Detective Branch team arrested him from Phulbaria area of Dhaka’s Gulistan on Thursday afternoon. Read: Notorious former AL lawmaker Abdur Rahman Badi arrested in Ctg Milon, a freedom fighter and also president of the Jashore district unit of Awami League, was taken to Gulshan police station after being arrested, he said. He is accused in several cases over the attacks on the students-public during the recent upsurge, the police official said. Read more: Ex-lawmaker MA Latif detained

Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, one of the party lawmakers who recently quit from the 11th parliament, has been declared as persona non grata by Ashuganj upazila unit BNP on Monday.  Ashuganj upazila unit BNP came up with the announcement while talking at a press briefing at Ashuganj Bazar. Abdus Sattar has been elected as MP from the Brahmanbaria-2 constituency five times. Earlier, on Sunday, BNP removed Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan from all posts for "violating party decisions and engaging in anti-party activities". Also Read: BNP's Abdus Sattar quits all his party posts "BNP Chairperson's Advisory Council Member Advocate Abdus Sattar has been expelled following his removal from all party posts, including the primary membership as per section 5(c) of the party constitution," said a press release signed by BNP acting office secretary Sayed Emran Saleh Prince. The decision would come into effect immediately, it said. Party sources said the action against Sattar was taken as he bought a nomination paper to contest the by-polls to the Brahmanbaria-2 seat after it fell vacant following his resignation as a BNP MP. Sattar recently resigned from all the posts of the party, including the chairperson's advisory council member, on personal grounds. He was first elected MP as an independent candidate from Brahmanbaria-2 ( (Ashuganj and Sarail) in 1979, during BNP founder Ziaur Rahman's tenure, following his failure to secure a party ticket. He was the founding vice-chairman of the party's Brahmanbaria unit at that time and worked as the president of Brahmanbaria BNP for 28 years. A lawyer by profession, Sattar won the parliamentary election to Brahmanbaria-2 four more times as a BNP candidate – in 1991, 1996, 2001, and 2018. He was also a state minister during the BNP-led government of 2001-06. On December 11 last, he resigned from the parliament along with other BNP lawmakers as per the party's decision.      

Gunmen shot dead four people including two police in northwestern Pakistan in an attack targeting a provincial lawmaker from former Prime Minister Imran Khan's political party, police said. Lawmaker Malik Liaqat Khan — no relation to Imran Khan — of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was wounded in the attack late Saturday along with three others and was hospitalized in the provincial capital of Peshawar, police said. Read: Pakistan says army general, 5 others die in helicopter crash No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The assault took place in the Maidan area of the Lower Dir district of conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which is governed by Khan’s party. Police officer Zar Badshah said among those killed were the nephew and brother of the PTI lawmaker, who was returning home after attending a funeral late Saturday. The area has been a stronghold of late religious leader Sufi Mohammad, who preached a strict version of Islam in the 1990s and later led his followers in fighting in Afghanistan against the U.S. and allied forces. It remained under the influence of the Pakistani Taliban until 2009.

Allowing China's state-run railway to build a high-speed rail line linking London with central and northern England would be an "extremely questionable" decision, a prominent British lawmaker said Saturday.

A House freshman from New Jersey who was planning to break with his party and vote against impeaching President Donald Trump will become a Republican, a GOP official said Saturday.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday nominated a five-term ruling Democratic Party lawmaker as new justice minister after former justice minister stepped down about two months earlier for an allegation of irregularities involving his family.