Sri Lanka, Oct. 21 -- The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said today Minister Rauff Hakeem should opt-out of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the Easter Sunday carnage as he used to know Zahran Hashim who led the attacks.
Addressing a press conference, SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris said video footage had surfaced in which Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader Rauff Hakeem was seen engaged in a conversation with a group of people including Zahran.
"Although six months had lapsed since the bombings, justice has not been meted out to the victims. Minister Hakeem should not have been a member of the PSC," he said, adding that SLPP presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa pledged to appoint a presidential commission to look ...