By Rathindra Kuruwita
The mastermind of the Easter Sunday attacks was Naufer Moulavi, a mentor of NTJ leader Zahran Hashim, Minister of Public Security, Dr. Sarath Weerasekera said yesterday, when asked by a journalist whether there had been a foreign hand behind the attacks. Former Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Rasheed Hajjul Akbar too had played a main role, the Minister said.
The Minister said so at a press briefing in Colombo on the future of the report on the PCoI on the Easter carnage.
Weerasekera also said that there was no concrete evidence to prove that Pulasthini Rajendran alias Sarah Jasmine, the wife of Atchchi Muhammadu Muhammadu Hastun, who detonated a suicide bomb at St. Sebastian’s Church, Katuwapitiya on 21 April 2019, had escaped to India.
Kandy Mayor Kesara D. Senanayake garlanding the D.S. Senanayake statue at the Mahamaluwa. BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY – The 73rd Independence Day was celebrated in Kandy near the statue of the first Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake opposite the Sri Dalada Maligawa. The event was organised by the Kandy Municipal Council. Mayor Kesara D. Senanayake garlanded […]
There were 129 Sri Lankan fugitives against whom red notices had been issued through the INTERPOL for various crimes in Sri Lanka, Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said yesterday. The DIG said most of the Sri Lankan fugitives were currently residing in Dubai, India or in European countries. DIG Rohana said 40 out of 129 […]
By Rathindra Kuruwita Ensuring control over the country’s energy supply requirements was vital for its energy security and for a country like Sri Lanka that could come only by increasing the use of renewable energy, Engineer Parakrama Jayasinghe, former president of Bioenergy Association of Sri Lanka, told The Island. Jayasinghe said that depending on coal […]
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