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 director general Martha Chizuma says Malawi’s political party funding system has given rise to “advance capture”.

Speaking at the two-day Dynamic Leaders and Gatekeepers Forum (DLGF) in Lilongwe yesterday, the ACB head said political parties are captured in advance by those who provide the funding such that, once in power, parties feel obliged to extend the favour to those donors and this is a cause for worry.

Chizuma: Corruption is a sin

She said most people who provide funding to political parties do so with an interest to benefit from public resources through the backdoor.

Said Chizuma: “The citizenry should take interest in those who provide support to political parties, which includes materials such as T-shirts and cloths, especially during campaign period.”

The forum attracted a diverse audience, ranging from businesspersons, public officials and political leaders who included Leader of Opposition Kondwani Nankhumwa and Kamuzu Chibambo, who is one of the leaders in the Tonse Alliance.

In her presentation, Chizuma wondered why corruption is rampant in Malawi when almost 80 percent of the population claims to be Christian.

Mzikamanda: It is a timely discussion

“Corruption is a sin but why is it so rampant when almost 80 percent of the population is Christian?” she wondered.

One of the participants at the forum, Krishna Achuthan, who is Nation Publications Limited (NPL) director, described Chizuma as a “woman of substance” who deserves support.

Achuthan, while heaping praise on Chizuma for her courage and passion to fight corruption, asked if there is hope to eliminate graft in the country.

In her response Chizuma said there is hope and her approach is to deal with the current corruption before focusing on old cases.

She said: “We are dealing with both cases—new and old corruption cases. We have to balance. We are also dealing with new cases which have the deterrent effect which is crucial to bringing down corruption cases. With this approach, I believe, we will get there. There is hope, we will get there.”

Chizuma also stressed that there is need to depoliticise the fight against corruption because the effects of corruption affect all citizens.

“If DPP leaders commit corruption even DPP followers suffer. The same thing with Tonse Alliance. Thus, we should get to a place where regardless of our political parties we should all hate corruption,” she said.

The ACB head added that despite losing trust in many people, she has hope that corruption will be dealt with in the country.

She said what keeps her going against a strong force bent to bring her down is her “faith in God”.

Said Chizuma: “I still have a deep belief that God has a specific purpose for this country and it shall be fulfilled. What hurts me is that some of the people hurting this country are those who have benefitted from this country.

“I am a beneficiary of this country. My education has been sponsored by government through scholarships. And after all these benefits should I really abuse my position?”

Chizuma is publicly considered an Anti-Corruption Crusader.

When President Lazarus Chakwera appointed Chizuma as ACB director general in April last year, the Public Appointments Committee of Parliament rejected the move, but later bowed to public pressure and confirmed her in the position.

During the last press conference, President Chakwera stressed that he opted for Chizuma because she is a fighter.

Besides Chizuma, other speakers at the conference included Chief Justice Rezine Mzikamanda, who gave a keynote address, and DLGF founder Pastor Zacc Kawalala of Word Alive Ministries.

Reacting to Chizuma’s presentation on political party financing, Nankhumwa, who is also Democratic Progressive Party vice-president (South), said he agreed with Chizuma on the need to strengthen the law for political parties to disclose for their sources of funding.

“It was a wonderful presentation and I agree with her suggested solution that we need to make some amendments to the current law to improve on transparency in political party financing. It is true we have the law, but we need to strengthen it,” he said.

In his address during the opening of the forum on Friday night, Mzikamanda said turbulent times require transformative leadership; hence, the DLGF is timely as it will give participants an opportunity to reflect on how Malawi can surmount the current challenges, which include Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war impacts.

• The Reconcilation Commission tasked with contacting renowned Afghan figures starts functioning
• The commission’s operational strategy lacks clearity: Some politicans
• The Reconciliation Commission could be a good opportunity for talks and empowerment of acting government: Richard Bennett
• This commission is a disgrace to political figures: The Afghanistan National Resistance and Solvation Council
• No one could threaten the people of Afghanistan in the name of resistance or any other pretexts: Mujahid
• A grand meeting of renowned figures would be convened for the resolution of problems
• A grand meeting would have a positive outcome when all Afghans see themselves representated: Experts
• Any change in Afghanistan should be led by the people: 7-way meeting
• The strategy for face covering (hijab) sparked positive and negative reactions
• Twenty-one people were killed and 38 others injured in Afghanistan last week.

Casualties:

Twenty-one people were killed and 38 others injured, excluding casualties from natural disasters, in Afghanistan last week.

According to reports, six people were killed and 18 others injured in a bomb blast inside a mosque in Kabul last week.

Ten people were killed and 15 others injured in seprate blasts in northern Balkh province. Daesh claimed responsibility for the Balkh attacks.

Last week, two pople were wounded in a mortar shell blast in Uruzgan and Kandahar provinces. Two people were killed in security forces’ firing on a wedding procession in Nangarhar province.

A man was killed in Maidan Wardak province last week when one person was injured in Kabul.

Reports said unknown gunmen killed a woman in Faryab last week while security force killed three kidnappers during a raid in Parwan province.

During the previous week, 17 people had been killed and 16 others injured in Afghanistan.

Before the regime change last year, hundreds of people were killed and injured on a weekly basis in Afghanistan.

Reconcilation Commission

Some renowned Afghan figures and polticans in the past government had fled the country after the regime change. But the caretaker government approved in March the formation of a ‘Commission to Contact Afghan Figures in Foreign Countries for Reconcilaiton. Last week, this commission officillly started functioning by announcing its operational strategy.

The commission said it would pave the way for the return of all political and military Afghan personalities from foreigncountrie. After their return, nobody will hve the right of their arrest or detention.

Some political commentators welcomed the formation of the Reocncilaiton Commission. However, they said the strategy regarding the political future of these personalies lacked clarity and the gvenrment should provide more details in this regrd.

Last week, UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Afghanistan Richard Bennett said the formation of the ‘Commission to Contact Afghan Politicla Figures in Foreign Countreis was an opportunity for talks and empowermentof the incumbent government

But the Afghanistan National Resistance and Solvation Council, in its first meeting in Turkey, opposed the Reconciliation Commission and asked the government to explore honest ways of resolving the conflict through an interim administration and elections. Key figures in the past government such as Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf, Atta Mohmmad Noor, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Haji Mohaqiq and Mir Rahman Rahmani are part of this council.

Earlier, the Solvation Council had asked the caretaker government for talks and if dialogue did not work, they could choose military action.

But Islamic Emirate spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said no one would be allowed to threaten the people of Afghanistan in the name of resistance or on any other pretext.

He, however, explained the individuals involved in corruption for years had no place in the government and if they opted for military action, the authorities would move against them.

Grand meeting

According to a government source, a strategy was being devised to convene a grand meeting of renowned Afghan figures. Individuals from different parts of the country would be invited to the meeting.

Some experts said onvening of the grand meeting would a positive step if all Afghans saw themselves represented.

Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar stressed the need for a grand national council with clear support from the masses to take the country out of the current political crisis.

Hekmatyar believed the implementation of the caretaker government’s strategy for reconciliation with its opponents was weak and difficult to enforce.

But the National Resistance and Solvation Council has termed convening of the grand meeting a symbolic move. In a statement, the council said the proposed gathering and return of Afghan perosnalities to the country was a disgrace to them and to the wisdom of society.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak is slowing.

The discussion at the North’s Politburo meeting suggests it will soon relax a set of draconian curbs imposed after its admission of the omicron outbreak this month out of concern about its food and economic situations.

 

Kim and other Politburo members “made a positive evaluation of the pandemic situation being controlled and improved across the country,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.

They also “examined the issue of effectively and quickly coordinating and enforcing the anti-epidemic regulations and guidelines given the current stable anti-epidemic situation,” KCNA said.

On Sunday, North Korea reported 89,500 more patients with fever symptoms, taking the country’s total to 3.4 million. It didn’t say whether there were additional deaths. The country’s latest death toll reported Friday was 69, setting its mortality rate at 0.002%, an extremely low count that no other country, including advanced economies, has reported in the fight against COVID-19.

Many outside experts say North Korea is clearly understating its fatality rate to prevent any political damage to Kim at home. They say North Korea should have suffered many more deaths because its 26 million people are largely unvaccinated against COVID-19 and it lacks the capacity to treat patients with critical conditions. Others suspect North Korea might have exaggerated its earlier fever cases to try to strengthen its internal control of its population.

Since its May 12 admission of the omicron outbreak, North Korea has only been announcing the number of patients with feverish symptoms daily, but not those with COVID-19, apparently because of a shortage of test kits to confirm coronavirus cases in large numbers.

But many outside health experts view most of the reported fever cases as COVID-19, saying North Korean authorities would know how to distinguish the symptoms from fevers caused by other prevalent infectious diseases.

The outbreak has forced North Korea to impose a nationwide lockdown, isolate all work and residential units from one another and ban region-to-region movements. The country still allows key agricultural, construction and other industrial activities, but the toughened restrictions have triggered worries about its food insecurity and a fragile economy already hit hard by pandemic-caused border shutdowns.

Some observers say North Korea will likely soon declare victory over COVID-19 and credit it to Kim’s leadership.

Yang Un-chul, an analyst at the private Sejong Institute in South Korea, said the North’s recently elevated restrictions must be dealing a serious blow to its coal, agricultural and other labor-intensive industrial sectors. But he said those difficulties won’t likely develop to a level that threatens Kim’s grip on power, as the COVID-19 outbreak and strengthened curbs have given him a chance to boost his control of his people.

The State Department stated Thursday that the US is “deeply disturbed” by the Iraqi Parliament’s passage of the legislation and noted that “in addition to jeopardizing freedom of expression and promoting an environment of anti-Semitism, this legislation stands in stark contrast to progress Iraq’s neighbors have made by building bridges and normalizing relations with Israel, creating new opportunities for people throughout the region.”

The US will “continue to be a strong and unwavering partner in supporting Israel, including as it expands ties with its neighbors in the pursuit of greater peace and prosperity for all,” the State Department stated.

Iraq has officially been at war with Israel since 1948.

The United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain shortly after it, announced in August 2020 the normalization of relations with Israel.

Sudan was next to announce the normalization of relations with Israel in October, Israel’s third peace treaty in two months.

Morocco was the fourth country to join the Abraham Accords with Israel. The two countries announced the normalization of relations in December 2020.

The Abraham Accords, the first pact between an Arab country and Israel in 25 years, is expected to lead to similar agreements with other Arab countries, possibly Oman or Saudi Arabia.

 

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 Islamabad [Pakistan], May 28 (ANI): Amid the already deteriorating condition of the minority communities in Pakistan, the country has gone below the belt with Ahmadiyyas as the graves of their dead are being dug up and their mortal remains being thrown away.

Recently, the latest case was that of Ishfaq Ahmed, who was desecrated on May 19 in Peshawar, as reported by The Friday Times citing Saleem ud Din, the spokesperson of the Ahmadi community in Pakistan.

A day earlier, a 36-year-old Ahmadi man was stabbed to death in front of his two children in Okara. The murderer, who is reported to be affiliated with Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), was a student at a local madrassa, the weekly reported.

Ahmedis are Muslims who were declared non-Muslim by Pakistan in 1973. They are subjected to increased discrimination from the government and the society at large dominated by the majority of Sunnis.

The Pakistani constitution declared the Ahmadis sect of Islam to be 'infidels' and also barred them from 'posing as Muslims'.

The Ahmadis members alleged that many cases were hushed up and even when the cases are registered, the investigation and prosecution are weak after which the culprits go free.

The Ahmadis are also facing mistreatment from the justice system as many people lost their lives while being tried for blasphemy, the weekly said in its report.

The S&P 500 benchmark of US blue chips closed 2.5 per cent higher on Friday, pushing the index 6.6 per cent higher for the week, its best since November 2020. The advance snapped a six-week string of weekly declines – the worst run since 2001 – as technology stocks surged.

On Tuesday, the health of the Australian economy will be revealed when March quarter gross domestic product data is released.

Consensus forecasts peg quarterly growth at 0.6 per cent, or 2.9 per cent on a year-over-year basis, in a period overshadowed by the effects of the omicron strain and heavy flooding on the east coast.

Commonwealth Bank economists share the consensus estimates, saying “growth will be driven by a solid 2 per cent lift in household consumption”, while “public spending and inventories will also support growth”.

National Australia Bank, meanwhile, anticipates March quarter growth to fall short of forecasts, with its economists priming for a reading of just 0.1 per cent for the quarter, as a pick-up in exports weighs on growth.

“Regardless of a softish quarterly result, the near-term outlook for Australian activity remains strong,” NAB said. “Consumption should lift further in the coming quarter as omicron and flood disruptions pass, before beginning to normalise later in the year.”

Wages focus

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Investors will zero-in on the wages component of the data given its role in driving Reserve Bank policy decisions.

Wages are among the stickiest costs facing businesses and when they rise consistently it can transform higher inflation from a temporary burst to a prolonged issue facing the economy.

Weaker wages growth will lessen the likelihood of more aggressive central bank monetary tightening, while a more strident reading will pressure the RBA to tighten.

 

“Labour costs will be of relevance due to the current inflationary context and implications for monetary policy,” said CBA economists.

“We expect labour costs to show wage pressure forming but to confirm that Australia is not facing the wage-price spiral seen abroad.”

CBA anticipates the data will “not alter the path of monetary policy”, and that the RBA will raise the cash rate by 25 basis points at its June meeting, following an increase by the same margin in May.

A soft reading on wages data would support the most recent wage price index, which showed wages grew by 0.7 per cent in the March quarter, shy of forecasts.

New jobs added in April also fell well short of estimates, but helped to maintain the jobless rate at 3.9 per cent after the measure was revised down for the March quarter to the lowest level in 48 years.

According to the publication, the media at large extent ignores the violence against the Ahmedis, unless it takes place on a large scale, and attracts international attention.

Earlier this year, a 70-year-old Ahmadi man on trial for blasphemy died in Bahawalpur Jail due to alleged mistreatment despite his ill health. He was awaiting his bail hearing scheduled for later this year.

An earlier report of August 23, 2021, quoted historian and lawyer Yasser Latif Hamdani, former BBC Urdu editor Tahir Imran Mian and human rights activists Rabia Mehmood and Ali Warsi alleged that Pakistan accuses the whole world of indulging in Islamophobia, while they themselves are engaged in violence when it comes to minorities and the Ahmedi community.

South Korean documentary "The Red Herring" has shed light on the danger of politicized prosecutors by tracking what happened to Cho Kuk, former justice minister who propelled the reform of the prosecutors' office.

"From the perspective of common people, there seemed to be a problem with the prosecutors' office and the media but Cho also had a problem. Most of them thought like that. My perspective was not far from it," Director Yi Seung-jun said in an interview with Xinhua one day before the film hit local theaters on Wednesday.

Yi is well-known for directing "In the Absence", a documentary film on the deadly Sewol ferry sinking in 2014 that became the first-ever South Korean documentary to be nominated for Academy Awards in 2020.

"The Red Herring" took the third spot at the domestic box office for the first three days of its release, according to the Korean Box Office Information System (KOBIS), which was a remarkable record set by a documentary.

Yi said he was "astounded" by "unexposed and hidden facts" that he recognized while scrutinizing materials relevant to the so-called "Cho Kuk incident" and interviewing people who witnessed the trial process in court and even were interrogated by prosecutors because of the testimony in favor of Cho and his family.

Since Cho's days as a professor at the prestigious Seoul National University School of Law, Cho had been an advocate of the prosecution reform and currently got emblematic of it as he and his family went through the mill to overhaul the prosecution service, one of the country's most powerful institutions.

Cho had been a media storm from the day he was nominated as the minister of justice and stepped down five weeks into his tenure as the minister in 2019.

To deflect attention from what can be important, red herrings had been drawn across the path of investigations by spreading unsubstantiated media reports that Cho had an affair with an actress or that his daughter drove a luxury sedan. Most of such reports later proved wrong.

"The way prosecutors and journalists did is something of a red herring. It looks clear that they had a certain purpose. To achieve the purpose, it appears that (prosecutors) leaked information and (journalists) blindly took it," the director said.

Cho was indicted on 12 charges, and his wife was sentenced to four years in prison by the top court.

Critics said the prosecution service politically targeted Cho, a key architect of the prosecution reform schemes under the previous government that aimed to curb the prosecutors' excessive power.

South Korean prosecutors have the power to indict or not indict suspects, and the authority to launch investigations that are generally conducted by the police in other countries. Even after the reform drive, they still have the right to investigate politically sensitive cases on corruption and economic crimes.

"I do not say every prosecutor is bad and deserves to be blamed. I think most of the prosecutors perform their duty in a very devoted way," Yi said.

The director cast doubt on a group of politically motivated prosecutors, whose excessive power will force themselves to turn every suspect into convicts in a bid to justify their overbearing investigations and indictments.

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 The Washington-based Baloch American Congress (BAC) has unfurled the campaign for the independence of Balochistan from Pakistan.The BAC is lobbying with American Congressmen as well as collecting petitions from the common people to pressurise Pakistan to stop extra-judicial killings and enforced disappearances of the Baloch community.

 

The committee has never held even a single in the last two years after changes took place in Sudan,  though the government of the Republic of South Sudan has been talking to the African Union to ensure the activities of the committee resumed,” he further disclosed.

Established in 2011 after clashes between the Sudanese army and the SPLA on the eve of the secession of South Sudan from Sudan, the committee is depicted as a crisis management body tasked to oversee the administration and take responsibility for security issues.

The agreement on the temporary arrangement forming the committee requires it to hold monthly meetings and receives reports, briefings, requests, and calls from the members of the executive council.

Kuol described the Abyei committee as very important because it is a body responsible for political and administrative oversight over the executive council on behalf of the Sudanese and South Sudanese presidents.

“It is a very important mechanism because it submits reports and conducts briefings to the presidents. It provides time guidance and decisions to facilitate the timely and effective implementation of the various agreements as well as the establishment and sustainment of a stable and secure environment in Abyei”, he said.

The resumption of the AJOC activities comes within a series of agreements between the two countries to open borders and enhance security cooperation and transborder trade between local communities on the two sides.

The two countries however still have to form local police to establish joint administration in Abyei.

The Ngok Dinka resist these local administrative structures. Instead, they call for holding a referendum in the border region.

However, Khartoum and Juba failed to reach an agreement on who can participate in this crucial vote.

The developing cooperation between the governments frustrates the Ngok Dinka who also recently suffered attacks from the Twic Dinka following the eruption of an old dispute over Anet, an area between Abyei and Warrap of South Sudan.

India Narrative catches up with Dr Tara Chand, president of the BAC, who is raising awareness about the basic human rights of the Baloch nation amongst the people in the US.He says that because of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) both Pakistan and China are complicit in the ethnic cleansing of the Baloch people—which comprises less than 10 per cent of the Pakistani population with over 45 per cent of Pakistan’s landmass endowed with minerals.

 

Dr Tara Chand is amplifying the voice of the Baloch people in the US against human rights violations by Pakistan (Photo: Dr Tara Chand)

 

Excerpts from the interview:

 

Q: At one time you were a minister in Balochistan, so why is it that you are in exile in the US now?

 

Tara Chand: I was always active in Baloch politics.I had joined the Baloch Students Organisation in school and after completing my education joined the Balochistan National Party (BNP) led by chief of the influential Mengal tribe, Sardar Akhtar Mengal.

I won the general elections in 1997 and became a minister under Chief minister Sardar Akhtar Mengal’s leadership.

 

One day while watching the news we came to know that the Pakistani army had conducted nuclear tests in Balochistan.

The tests were conducted at a site near the Reqo Dik and Saindak gold and copper mines.Surprised, the chief minister rang up the then prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

Sharif said even he was not aware of the nuclear tests as the army had kept it a tightly guarded secret.Sharif also told Sardar Mengal that he was unaware of the location of the tests because the army had kept two possible sites—Chagai in Balochistan and Tharparkar in Sindh.

 

Our party was against the nuclear test in Balochistan.And, we were not even informed despite running the government there.We protested against the test.So, the army asked us why we were protesting because the nuclear tests were done in the security interests of Pakistan.

We told the army that we were not informed despite being in government and nuclear tests harm the environment.

 

The Pakistani intelligence started a conspiracy.

Our party lost the majority in the assembly and became the opposition.This is a daily occurrence in Pakistan where the governments are formed and pulled down by orders of the army.

Soon after, there was a coup and General Pervez Musharraf took over the government in Pakistan.Even the provincial assemblies were dissolved.

 

I was asked to join Musharraf’s party which I refused.I was put on the Exit Control List (ECL).

Then the intelligence agencies developed information that I was in touch with the Indian High Commission.When I came to know about this, I went underground for two months and came to the US.I was scared for my life as I was getting constant threats and would keep seeing my name in the newspapers.

 

Q: Do you still believe that the existence of the Baloch nation is in danger? Is the Pakistani military actually carrying out a genocide of the Baloch people?

 

Tara Chand: The Baloch people had to face four military operations before 2005.The fifth one, which is currently on, is the longest running operation against the Baloch nation.A racial, cultural and linguistic genocide of my people is actually taking place.

The longstanding neutrality of Sweden and Finland was abandoned when both states submitted formal applications to N ATO. But they are facing an unexpected obstacle on the way to membership: Turkey .

While Turkey supports the alliance's“open door” policy, Ankara's veto reflects its aims to change the status quo and make gains in three areas: the eastern Mediterranean, Syria and its own domestic politics.

Turkey has always had bumpy relations with NATO. In 2009, Ankara blocked the appointment of the former Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as NATO secretary-general, because of his defense of free speech during the Danish cartoons crisis in 2006. He also allowed a rebel Kurdish TV station to broadcast from Denmark into Turkey.

Another low point was in 2019 when Turkey started a military campaign against the Kurdish forces in Syria. This led to NATO secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, criticizing Ankara for“jeopardizing” the fight against Islamic State.

The current crisis is in some ways a hangover from previous episodes, particularly in relation to the Kurdish region in Syria. But it is unfolding against the backdrop of different geopolitical realities, including the deterioration of relations between the West and Russia, as well as a new domestic political context in Turkey.

Turkey vs Greece

There is an interesting backstory to the recent confrontation between Greece and Turkey involving tensions between the US and Turkey – which have been building up for some time .

When, in 2017, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed on a deal for the purchase of the Russian S-400 missile system, the US retaliated with the exclusion of Turkey from the F35 jet fighters development program, banning Turkey from the purchase of the jets.

The Biden administration has reportedly been considering dropping this ban in recent months, prompting the Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to urge the US Congress to reconsider.

The Turkish seismic research vessel 'Oruc Reis' (C) escorted by Turkish Naval ships in the Mediterranean Sea, off Antalya on August 10, 2020. Photo: Handout

There's a complex background to all this. Athens is a key player in eastern Mediterranean energy politics, and the exploration of energy sources in the contested waters of the eastern Mediterranean as well as Egypt's need to transport its natural gas exports to Europe has forged an alliance between Greece, Israel, Egypt and Cyprus – a bloc which excludes Turkey.

Meanwhile, the EU has sanctioned two executives of Turkish Petroleum Incorporated Company for “illegal drilling activities” , because they were unauthorized by the Republic of Cyprus, which claims sovereignty in the area.

But as the search for alternative energy sources for Europe continues against the backdrop of the breakdown of relations with Russia over the war in Ukraine, Ankara sees an opportunity to break its isolation by becoming an energy hub for the west.

 

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 The circumstantial evidence against Nathan Carman had been lying in plain sight for years before his surprising indictment and arrest this month on allegations he killed his mother at sea off New England in a plot to inherit millions of dollars.

Federal prosecutors in Vermont are not commenting on the timing of their decision to put the case before a grand jury, and the indictment offers no clues and no new information on the case, which included a dramatic rescue at sea and the suspicious deaths of two members of a wealthy New England family.

Legal experts and other law enforcement officials say the delay in bringing a criminal case could be the result of several factors, including that his mother and his boat have never been found.

“It’s very difficult to charge murder federally ... so I think what the government has been doing for the last six years is to build its case to charge him with mail fraud and wire fraud,” said Jessica Brown, a former state and federal public defender who is now an assistant professor at Vermont Law School.

The grand jury indictment accuses Carman, 28, of Vernon, Vermont, of murder and fraud in the killing of his mother, Linda Carman, during a fishing trip that began in Rhode Island. Carman made international headlines when he was found alone in a life raft near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, eight days after he and his mother left port.

The indictment also accuses him of fatally shooting his millionaire grandfather, John Chakalos, in 2013 in Connecticut, but does not charge him with that killing. He has repeatedly denied any involvement in both deaths.

Federal prosecutors say their deaths paved the way for Carman to inherit an estimated $7 million — his mother’s share of Chakalos’ estate. The inheritance remains tied up in probate court in Connecticut, where his mother's three sisters are seeking to bar Carman from receiving any money from his grandfather’s estate.

Seven of the eight counts in the indictment are charges related to what prosecutors allege were fraudulent efforts to get money from his grandfather’s estate or insurance companies. The other count accuses Carman of killing his mother.

Vermont U.S. Attorney Nikolas Kerest, through a spokesperson, declined to comment on the case.

Chairman Imran Khan addressed the protesters at Islamabad's 9th Avenue on Thursday morning and gave a six-day deadline to the government for announcing elections and dissolving assemblies and warned that he would return to the capital with the "entire nation" otherwise.

"I had decided that I will sit here until the government dissolves assemblies and announces elections, but of what I have seen in the past 24 hours, they (govt) are taking the nation towards anarchy," he said, claiming that the government was also trying to create a divide between the nation and police.

Imran said the government would be happy if he staged a sit-in in Islamabad as it would lead to clashes between the people and police and the army.

He denounced the "tactics" used by the "imported government", including raids and arrests, to stop the PTI's march and thanked the Supreme Court (SC) for taking notice of the matter.

Imran said there was a "huge responsibility" on SC judges, as he went on to ask where in a democracy peaceful protests were not allowed and demonstrators had to face tear-gas shelling, police raids and arrests.

He claimed that five PTI protesters were killed in clashes after the PTI's march, saying that one had fallen off the Attock bridge amid tear-gas shelling and the other was pushed into Ravi river. He said he had also received information that three were killed in Karachi.

Addressing the SC, he asked, "What crime were we committing?" He said he "wants justice for the people of Pakistan from Supreme Court judges and the lawyers' community".

"I am again asking the judiciary to save your FIA (Federal Investigation Agency). In the future, no FIA officer will investigate the powerful if he will meet the same end as Dr Rizwan and Asghar," he added. Imran said peaceful protest was the right of every Pakistan and no one "gives you (the government) to treat the people in the manner that you treated them".

The PTI chief said he and the entire nation was looking towards the judiciary after what had happened during the past 48 hours.

He lauded female PTI protesters for participating in the "struggle for real freedom". He further lauded the protesters for their stamina and patriotism.

However, the magistrate said that the photograph submitted to the court did not show such an order but that he was having a cordial discussion with the suspect and proceeding with the procession.

A normal Monday morning on the 9th of May 2022, turned into a scene of chaos after pro-government supporters attacked the MynaGoGama protest site near Temple Trees following a meeting chaired by then-Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.

The meeting at Temple Trees was organized by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna Local Government Members Forum and saw hundreds in attendance.

Following this meeting, the pro-government supporters attacked the MynaGoGama protest site near Temple Trees and dismantled the camp.

Thereafter, they moved to the main protest site in Galle Face known as GotaGoGama and destroyed several tents, and assaulted peaceful protestors.

Sri Lanka Police, the Riot Police, Sri Lanka Army, and other law enforcement agencies were called in to control the situation and Sri Lanka Police eventually imposed an island-wide curfew to control the unrest.

Following investigations, the MPs and several other local government members were arrested for their involvement in the attacks on the protest sites.

After Imran's speech PTI protesters holding a demonstration at Karachi's Numaish had dispersed peacefully. Later, the PTI lauded that "bravery of marchers who stayed despite shelling and tear gas attacks".

"But most celebrated thing was breaking barriers to get to D-Chowk; we defeated them!" the party said in a tweet.

The PTI chairman had entered Islamabad in the early hours of Thursday and marched towards D-Chowk, while the federal government authorised the deployment of the army in Red Zone to "protect important government buildings".

Later, PTI leader Fawad Chaudhry tweeted that Imran would be addressing the protesters at the Centaurus bridge.

With Imran's convoy, which began the journey from Swabi's Wali Interchange, en route to D-Chowk via the Srinagar Highway, a batch of his party workers and supporters are already present in the face of intense police shelling.

Earlier, during a brief stopover in Hasan Abdal approximately 50 kilometres away from the capital, Imran reiterated that he and his supporters would not vacate D-Chowk until a date for new elections was announced by the "imported government".

The PTI leader claimed that when his caravan reaches its destination, the police would also come to realise that his mission is about "jihad and not politics". Later, a video shared on PTI's official account showed police officials waving and welcoming Imran's caravan on its way to D-Chowk.

The PTI's march towards the D-Chowk and the shelling of teargas by police took place despite the Supreme Court directives for the former to hold its protest in Islamabad's H-9 area and orders for the government to not make arrests or use force in connection with the march.

Earlier, as the PTI's Azadi March began, tensions in Punjab rose after police made use of tear gas and arrested several PTI marchers in cities across the province as activists attempted to remove shipping containers blocking routes to Islamabad.

Senior journalist Hamir Mir, on his Twitter account, claimed to have received a message from PTI leader Dr Shireen Mazari in which she claimed that the tear gas fired on women and children by the police was "expired".

"Use of expired tear gas is not only violation of court orders but it’s a terrorism against Pakistani citizens by Rana Sanaullah," he quoted Mazari as saying. Mazari retweeted Mir's tweet in an apparent confirmation of her claim.

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 Vijayawada: Dozens of people including police personnel were injured as violence broke out in Andhra Pradesh's Amalapuram town on Tuesday during the protest by a group against the government's move to rename Konaseema district as Dr B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district.

Protesters opposing the proposal to rename the district also attacked the residence of state minister P. Viswaroop, torched few vehicles and resorted to stone-pelting, triggering tension in the town.

A mob set a couple of vehicles afire at the minister's house and also ransacked the office. The minister's family members escaped unhurt as the police had shifted them to a safe place.

Not only state minister P Viswaroop's house, but a violent mob also set on fire MLA Ponnada Satish's house in Konaseema district.

Hundreds of youth participated in the protest called by Konaseema Sadhana Samithi (KSS). Raising slogans against the government's decision, they gathered at the Clock Tower.

As police moved to detain the protesters, some of them ran towards the collector's office. Police chased and arrested some of them. As they were being taken in police vehicles, others pelted stones damaging window panes. The mob set afire a police vehicle and a private bus. However, there was no one in the vehicles.

The youth also pelted stones on police near Amalapuram Area Hospital. Superintendent of Police K.S.S.V Subba Reddy escaped in the stone-pelting but some police personnel were injured. Police resorted to baton charge to control the situation.

Home Minister T. Anita condemned the violence. She said anti-social elements were leading the protesters. She said it was unfortunate that the decision to name the district after the father of the Indian Constitution Dr Ambedkar was opposed.

The home minister claimed that the decision was taken at the request of the people. The Konaseema district was carved out from East Godavari with Amalapuram as its headquarters.

It was one of the 13 districts created on April 4, taking the total number of districts in the state to 26.

The government had named some of the districts after prominent personalities like freedom fighter Alluri Sitarama Raju, former chief minister and TDP founder Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, who was popular as NTR. Similarly, two new districts were named after saint composer Tallapaka Annamacharya (Annamayya) and Satya Sai Baba (Sri Satya Sai).

The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government headed by Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had come under criticism from Dalit groups and others for not naming a district after Ambedkar.

The state government on May 18 issued a notification inviting objections and suggestions on the proposal to rename the Konaseema district after Dr Ambedkar. It sought suggestions and objections from the people residing within Konaseema.

People have been urged to send objections and suggestions, if any, to Konaseema district collector within 30 days.

However, opposing the proposal, KSS had called for protests. The police had imposed prohibitory orders in the town in view of the protest call.

Gorakhe alleged that basic human rights are being trampled over every day in prison. He claimed, "Even though the court has made clear in its orders regarding access to medical services from external hospitals, the superintendent and medical officials resort to arbitrary decision-making. My co-accused Gautam Navlakha, Ramesh Gaychor, Sudhir Dhawale, Mahesh Raut, Surendra Gadling, Anand Teltumbade, and Hany Babu are also afflicted with various illnesses and there has been intentional negligence in their treatment. The medicines (especially ayurvedic) provided by lawyers and families are not being accepted, creating an overall state of helplessness."Gorakhe also demanded immediate access to medical services from the concerned authorities and action against medical officials for negligence in duty.

 

He also sought that scanning done by administration and investigation agencies should be stopped at once and with due process, legal action should be taken against the culprits.

In his letter, he alleged that, "Every letter sent to me and to my co-accused has been illegally scanned by the superintendents and sent directly to investigation agencies. By violating the right to privacy guaranteed by the Constitution and trampling the laws the prison administration is committing a crime. Instead of opening the letters in front of us each letter that we receive is already opened and unsealed by the time it reaches us. The books, accompanying papers, and stamps are stolen. Similarly, the letter being sent outside is sent directly for scanning instead of being sealed in front of me."Gorakhe also demanded that "perversely orchestrated water shortage in the prison" be addressed. Immediately ensure every inmate is provided 135 litres of water, he demanded.

The political prisoner under the Elgar Parishad Bhima Koregaon case also demanded that a permanent visiting room should be immediately constructed, and clean drinking water, sanitation, fans, and other facilities are made available. An up-to-date token system should be implemented as soon as possible, he demanded in the letter.

Pointing out at a purported circular issued by the Prisons and Correctional Services, he claimed that the telephone provision otherwise available to him has been stopped. "According to the principle of equal justice, all undertrial and convicted inmates should receive the services made available during the COVID-19 pandemic with due verification and following the Gujarat and Telangana State Jail telephone facility pattern," he said.

On May 5, Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar decried the police actions to slap Section 124A (sedition) of the Indian Penal Code against activists, saying that such measures suppress liberty and stifle any voice of dissent raised in a peaceful and democratic way. Pawar on May 5 arrived at Sahyadri Guest House in Mumbai to appear before the Judicial probe commission in the Bhima Koregaon case.

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 But after being targeted by the former president for nearly a year and a half for failing to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss to now-President Biden in the key battleground state, Kemp appears to be in a commanding position on the eve of Georgia’s primary. 

The latest public opinion surveys, including a Fox News poll, indicate the governor clearing the 50% needed to avoid a runoff against former Sen. David Perdue, who’s backed by Trump.

The White House moved swiftly to clarify President Joe Biden’s comments, but his assertion Monday that the U.S. will militarily defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion attempt may actually pave the way to conflict in the Taiwan Strait.

It’s the second time since October that aides have had to walk back Biden’s comments that appear to reverse the longtime policy of “strategic ambiguity” regarding U.S. willingness to defend Taiwan. “As the President said, our policy has not changed. He reiterated our One China Policy and our commitment to peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait,” a White House official said Monday in a statement. “He also reiterated our commitment under the Taiwan Relations Act to provide Taiwan with the military means to defend itself.

 

"I think the party’s already uniting," Kemp said Monday in a Fox News interview.

"That’s one reason why he’s [Perdue] been dropping, and we’ve been surging because people have been realizing that I’m the candidate that can beat Stacey Abrams," the governor argued, refuting repeated arguments from the former president and Perdue that Trump voters won’t back the governor in November’s general election against Abrams, the Democratic Party rising star and a nationally-known voting rights advocate who’s making her second straight bid for Georgia governor.

He may be down by double digits in the polls, but Perdue remains optimistic, telling Fox News that Kemp’s "definitely vulnerable."

"Here’s a sitting, incumbent, Republican governor struggling to get to 50%," Perdue emphasized. "That validates everything I said in December when I got in here."

 

Four years ago, with the support of Trump, Kemp narrowly defeated Abrams. But Kemp earned Trump’s ire starting in late 2020, after he certified now-President Biden’s razor-thin victory in Georgia in the presidential election, following two recounts of the vote. 

Trump, who had unsuccessfully urged the governor and other top Republican officials in the state to overturn the results, returned to Georgia last autumn and again in late March to campaign against Kemp.

 

And Perdue has made Kemp’s actions in the 2020 election a leading theme of his campaign, as he’s supported Trump’s constant attempts to re-litigate his election loss. He’s charged numerous times that Kemp "sold us out."

"The reason I got in here is he’s divided this state. He allowed voter fraud to happen. He denied it happened. He’s covering it up. And now he’s suppressing evidence. And people know that," Perdue reiterated in his Fox News interview. 

I still think this is Biden’s gut instinct reflected in mindless wording, not a policy reversal, but it is needlessly unsettling … if Biden keeps doing this, it could be a ‘big deal’ indeed,” Winston Lord, former U.S. Ambassador to China, told POLITICO in a statement. “We should maintain strategic ambiguity. We can deter Chinese attacks on Taiwan without destroying our ambiguous one-China policy, which has been a core element of our relations with Beijing for a half century.”

The U.S. relationship with Taiwan is spelled out in the U.S.-China Three Communiqués, the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act and the 1982 Six Assurances. The TRA commits the U.S. “to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan.” None of those documents specifically obligate the U.S. to military intervention to protect Taiwan in the face of a PRC invasion. But the TRA suggests an active U.S. role in maintaining the island’s status quo.

Sojon Parveen Nahar Konika of Bheramara Upazila received the best Jayita award Pabna

 Own correspondent: UNO Mr. Dinesh Sarkar, Upazila Chairman Alhaj Akhtaruzzaman Mithu, Roxana Khatun Assistant Commissioner (Land), Upazila Secondary Education Officer Faruk Ahmed, Women Vice Chairman Indonesia, C ( Delete: In the presence of Balaka Parveen Swapna Chairman, Jatiya Mahila Sangstha, Bheramara and many others, Jannatul Ferdous (Chairman), Department of Women's Affairs, Bheramara. Eliminating the horrors of torture, he started a new venture. Parveen Nahar Konika, a well-deserving daughter of Asaduzzaman Kajal of Bheramara Upazila's College Para, won the Best Jayita award in the women's category. Oppression, torture, grief, suffering, humiliation, insults could not keep him down, his tireless work and morale helped him to stand on his own two feet. Today, she is a successful woman in society. Today she is an example of a female nation. Bheramara is the pride of the people.

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International Information Rights Day was observed on Tuesday 28 September 2021 through Magura Sreepur Upazila and discussion meeting on the initiative of Responsibility of Government Services through Strengthening Participatory Governance implemented by Wave Foundation with the financial support of Donor Foundation for People and UKAID. Upazila Nirbahi Officer Liuza-ul-Jannah presided over the rally and discussion meeting organized by Sreepur Upazila Administration.
Also present as special guests were Md. Osman Gani, Project Coordinator of Response Project, Abul Kalam Azad, Prominent Politician, President of Upazila Lok Morcha, Md. Nargis Sultana, Female Vice Chairperson of Sreepur Upazila Parishad, Kazi Jalal Uddin, Vice Chairman. Upazila Social Service Officer Md. Wasim Akram was present along with the presidents and general secretaries of 6 union Lok Morchas of the upazila, journalists, members of community level ward level and program officers of Response Project.
Akbar Hossain Foundation, Commander, Khamarpara, Sreepur Upazila, Magura. On the occasion of the day, a discussion meeting and special prayer meeting was organized at the office of the organization.
The meeting was presided over by Captain Akbar Hossain Mia Kutubullah Hossain Mia Kuti, Founder President of the Foundation and former Chairman of Srikol Union.
Among others present were Yusuf Ali Mandal, Awami League leader of Gasheshpur Union, Jihad Mia, former general secretary of Upazila Chhatra League, Mostafa Sardar, heroic freedom fighter, Shyamapad Adhikari, Md. Ohidul Islam Mia, Ripon Rafi and many others.
At the end of the discussion, a special prayer mahfil was held in memory of all the martyrs including 15th August and 21st August.
Prominent Islamic thinker Maulana Abdul Quader Siddiqui, Assistant Teacher of Sreepur Government MC Pilot Secondary School conducted the prayer.