Sri Lanka, April 8 -- What should be investigated is who prevented the investigations being carried out and prevented the arrest of Easter bomber Zaharan Hashim and his group, said Minister of Ports & Shipping Rohitha Abeygunawardena.

Joining the fourth day of the debate on the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday attacks in Parliament yesterday, he said former Cabinet Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe had made a statement in 2016 in Parliament that there were reports of several persons having links with the ISIS organization. "The Cabinet is a very small group and when a member makes such a statement in Parliament, as a responsible Government the previous Government should have deployed the law enforcemen...