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Muslim Aid is responding towards the Humanitarian Crisis for those displaced in the North. Muslim Aid is responding at present by providing an inflatable field hospital, ambulances and a team of doctors. We are also sending our water purification equipment which has the capacity of providing 144,000 ltrs of safe drinking water per day along with a water bowser. There …

I refer to Kath Noble’s letter in the Island of July 1, in which she writes that the image she projected of me as holding David Miliband’s bag while he gave Sri Lanka a good slap wasn’t based on a general impression that I am a great fan of DM, after which she goes on, “I was pointing out that …

Eastern Province Muslim militant groups responding to a government amnesty yesterday surrendered dozens of automatic weapons before a major crackdown by the authorities, Police said. Militants surrendered their weapons to the mosques in the area before they were collected in bulk and handed over to the Police at a Kattankudy mosque, they said. Some weapons including 17 T-56 rifles were …

The Sri Lankan government was moving against armed jihadis, a new menace in the Eastern part of the island country, which just ended a long drawn out war against the LTTE, claimed a front-page report in the weekly Lakbimanews on Sunday. Official Indian sources told The New Indian Express that presence of jihadis had begun to cause concern to both …

I refer to Kath Noble’s article in the Island of June 17, in which a whole paragraph is devoted to me. Before dealing with that paragraph, I must set out the background to it. In my article HRC Special Session in the Island of June 15, I described the   Westerners as the grand specialists in the art and science of …

Sri Lanka Muslim conference was founded in 1977. Its singular vision was to bring together the Muslim Women’s organizations as one united body to work in solidarity to raise the status of women and add quality to their lives. The founder’s vision was manifested in action when initially 17 organizations came together as one in the year following 1976. The …