Having arrived in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad over a month earlier, for Sri Lanka High Commissioner-designate to Pakistan, Air Chief Marshal (retd.) Jayalath Weerakkody, Tuesday March 3, was to be an important day in his new career.
It was not too long ago that the powers that be said that the global financial crisis would have no effect on Sri Lanka. The financial system was in their view insulated from the happenings all around us; it was safe and sound. So too it was in respect to the Sri Lankan economy whose resilience was a boast.
Ideally politics and sports should not be mixed together but, last week’s terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Pakistan led to the incident becoming a matter for discussion in Parliament and inevitably a political blame game.
It is very apparent that the Office of the Presidency cannot take cover any longer under the thin excuse of the absence of a single nomination of the smaller parties in Parliament to postpone making the long pending appointments to the Constitutional Council under the 17th Amendment to the Constitution.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague moved last week to deliver an arrest warrant on Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir charging him with war crimes in the strife-torn region of Darfur, one of the world's volatile political hotspots.
