AFP report, April 27, 2023 The United States said Wednesday it would refuse visas on human rights grounds to a Sri Lankan provincial governor who had been charged with killings during the island’s long civil war. A Sri Lankan investigation accused former navy chief Wasantha Karannagoda, among others, of abducting teenage children of wealthy families and killing them after extorting money. Authorities in 2021 dropped charges, prompting an outcry from human rights groups, and he…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, April 20th, 2023QUETTA: The personal security guard of Nawab Aslam Raisani, a former Balochistan chief minister and the tribal chief of the Raisani Tribe and chief of Sarawan, was gunned down by unidentified shooters in the Raisani Road area of this provincial capital late on Wednesday evening. The police said that the victim, identified as Bolan Khan Mengal, was targeted when he was on his way to Raisani House. The…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, Apr 18, 2023Five months after the major elections held in November last year, the provincial governments are yet to get a full shape—some have been hanging by a thread after being turned into minority governments while in others the competing interests of the parties in the ruling coalition have complicated the process. The CPN-UML has pulled out of the governments in Sudurpaschim, Madhesh, Bagmati and Karnali, but the…
by P K Balachandran in Daily Mirror online, Feb 14, 2023As part of measures to make devolution under the 13th Constitutional Amendment (13A) meaningful, Sri Lankan Tamils have suggested that the powers now vested with the Provincial Governor be pruned, and more powers granted to the Provincial Board of Ministers. In a list of proposals submitted to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) MP from Jaffna district, M.A. Sumanthiran, had proposed a…
By RAM KUMAR KAMAT in The Himalayan Times, Dec 2, 2022The process of forming a new government will start after the Election Commission submits the final parliamentary and provincial election results to the president. The EC can submit election result report to the head of state only after it completes counting of all ballot papers under the first-past-the-post and proportional representation system. The poll panel has yet to count FPTP ballot papers in Dolakha, Bajura,…