Sri Lanka, Sept. 15 -- The leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, Rauff Hakeem, has strongly criticised the government's official response to a recent Israeli air strike on Qatar.

In a statement, Mr Hakeem argued that the Foreign Ministry has shown an inability to differentiate between the actions of an occupier and the occupied, or to properly identify the attack as an assault rather than a simple incident.

the official statement follows,

Qatar attack: Why our Foreign Ministry refuses to name "Israel"

By Rauff Hakeem,

Leader of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress.

At the time of Israel's recent attack on Qatar, I was in Tehran, Iran, attending the 3 days World Islamic Solidarity Conference on Palestine, which was attended by representa...