by Raheed Ejaz in Prothom Alo, Jan 2, 2019 at 17:37 hrs Two Bangladeshis have been caught in the biggest drug haul ever of Sri Lanka’s recent history. A total of 272 kgs of heroin and 5 kgs of cocaine were found in their possession. Sri Lanka’s law enforcement agencies nabbed them during a special operation in the Mount Lavinia area in the suburbs of capital Colombo. The value of the confiscated drugs is estimated…
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Report in Dawn, October 6th, 2018 ISLAMABAD: The residence of the Sri Lankan high commissioner in the capital was burgled, police said on Friday. The burglars broke into the house located in F-8/2 even though it was guarded by paramilitary troops, and made off with bronze lamps and tabs worth thousands of rupees. Margalla Police Station House Officer (SHO) Inspector Athar Khan told Dawn that the house was locked since the high commissioner left Pakistan…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 28, 2018 The Bangladesh government yesterday urged Sri Lanka to implement a free trade agreement (FTA) designed to enhance bilateral trade between the two countries. Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal made the call at a meeting held with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on the eve of the two-day Indian Ocean Conference 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam, reports UNB. “It is possible to multiply the two-way trade volume by making…
The writer is a member of staff. A LARGE number of people have once again begun asking whether Pakistan is walking in the footsteps of Sri Lanka in its growing engagement with China. The new talk has been sparked by a long article in the New York Times that, for the first time, provides details thus far unknown about how the Hambantota Port project was conceived and executed. People have long looked upon this project,…
By Catherine Philp, Diplomatic Correspondent, and James Bone in the Times, Jan 8 New York A leading United Nations expert called yesterday for a war crimes inquiry in Sri Lanka after his investigation concluded that a video showing soldiers summarily killing Tamil prisoners last year was authentic. In a damning report citing top scientific experts, Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, dismissed the Sri Lankan Government’s claims that the footage shown by Channel…
By Andrew Buncombe in The Independent, UK, Jan 7 Seven months after Sri Lanka’s long and bitter civil war was brought to an end by a withering government assault, the political coalition that supported the Tamil Tigers has thrown its support behind the former army chief who crushed them. In an ironic twist to the presidential election campaign being fought on the island, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) announced yesterday that it was supporting General…