Post-G7 Melodi.

At the G7 Summit, "Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni on Saturday (15 May) posted a video on X standing with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and saying, 'Hello from the Melodi team.' PM Modi can be heard laughing loudly in the video." HT. The period of peace and goodwill is over. "Indian national Nikhil Gupta, who is suspected by the US of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill Khalistani terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun on American soil, has been extradited from the Czech Republic, media reports said on Sunday (16 June)." ET. "Federal prosecutors allege that Gupta hired a hitman to kill Pannun and paid USD 15,000 in advance. They allege that an unnamed Indian government official was involved in it." "India has rejected any involvement in the case and has launched an investigation into the allegation." In April the Washington Post named the involved official as Vikram Yadav and alleged that former chief of RAW Samant Goel, among other top officials in the Indian government, was also involved in the plot. TOI. The Indian government dismissed the report as "speculative and irresponsible". Despite vehement denials, "An intelligence operative has been removed from his position and several others were reshuffled following an investigation into US claims." HT. The investigation apparently found that "rogue operatives not authorized by the government had been involved in the plot" (ET), but the US expects these officials to be prosecuted. Assuming this official had gone rogue, "it is clear that he had to have been part of a band of rogue operatives since he shared footage of the bullet-ridden corpse of another Khalistani activist, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, that had been taken (presumably by the assassins) right after he was shot and killed on June 18, 2023." "Even assuming the National Security Adviser was in the dark about the Pannun plot, we know that a senior CIA official alerted him to it in August 2023. If the killing of Nijjar itself did not prompt an urgent internal investigation, the plot to kill Pannun ought to have rung alarm bells." The Wire. Attorney General Merrick Garland said "the Justice Department will not tolerate attempts to silence or harm American citizens," and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco called the plot a "brazen attempt to silence a political activist for exercising his freedom of speech". HT. It is immaterial that Garland was interviewed twice and rejected both times by Barack Obama, for a vacancy in the US Supreme Court, who nominated Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan instead. The Republicans blocked Garland's nomination when Obama picked him in 2016, right at the end of his second term, which is why Garland is extremely bitter, vindictive and dangerous. "A group of powerful Democratic senators on Monday (yesterday) sought a strong diplomatic response from the Biden administration to the allegations of the Indian government's involvement in a foiled plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on US soil." BS. This gives new meaning to "Canadian PM Justin Trudeau on Saturday (at G7) talked about a shared commitment between India and Canada in the future to tackle crucial concerns." TOI. Crucial for Canada, perhaps. After all, Indian students in Canada's Prince Edward Island are ready to go on hunger strike so as not to have to return to India. India Today. Canadians do not need India. Bad things, they say, come in threes. (wiktionary). We can see only two.