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My heart always told me that even though outwardly Buddhism and Islam looked diametrically opposites, both shared similarities I strongly believe in a cosmopolitan environment where one needs to know the beliefs of our fellow citizens since the religion we are born by default will anyhow be inculcated and practiced   …

By the time you read this, our nation’s Goose may have been cooked in Geneva, and only the bare bones are left for political pundits to chew on. I have been consistent in my belief that our performance from 30/1 onwards was unprincipled and reckless. I am less concerned about …

It is said in several fora that when we were given Independence on a platter by the British in 1948, our economy in Asia was only second to that of Japan. In this context it is relevant that Japan which was ravaged in the Second World War in 1945 had …

Retired Senior DIG The predicament of those in the highest echelons of defence and police bring to my mind past serious failures, not entirely dissimilar to the massacre on “Easter Sunday” in 2019. Somewhere in the mid 1980s, an LTTE group, led by their Mannar leader Victor Fulgencius ,entered the …

Educated persons, sports people, the upper and middle classes in Pakistani society and those sick of the run-of-the-mill South Asian politician greeted Imran Khan being elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018 with gladness. This was echoed in our country and worldwide. Yes, he is a new type of western …

This commission recommended criminal proceedings against the person who appointed it Wahhabism was the ideological factor behind the April 21 attack, according to the PCoI’s conclusions When the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) was appointed in 2010 by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said …

“Pakistan is an Islamic nation, where there is no Buddhist population. Buddhism was discouraged and Buddhists     forcibly converted to Islam and that is the reason behind an absence of a flourishing Buddhist population in Pakistan.” These and others are some of the common statements that I hear from …

Barely a few months ago, with the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was safely ensconced in power and with the ruling party SLPP having won a two-thirds majority in Parliament, the foreign policy interlocutors of the new government outlined its foreign policy. Sri Lanka would follow an equidistant foreign policy. …

Recommends criminal proceedings against Fmr. Prez Sirisena, Pujitha, Hemasirii and others Says lax attitude of RW towards Islamic extremism as the reason for failure to prevent the attack Recommends action under the Bribery Act against Bathuideen for copper supply to Ibrahim Says Thowheed groups are indirectly connected and Thowheed ideology …