ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has welcomed his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa’s assurance given in Sri Lankan Parliament on Wednesday, allowing Muslims to bury those who died of Covid-19.
In a tweet, the prime minister hailed the decision. Earlier, there was a restriction of incineration of the bodies due to fears of infectivity in the midst of a pandemic.
It may be noted that Sri Lanka had restricted its population through an official decree to incinerate all those who die out of Covid-19 so the viral spread in the midst of the pandemic can be reduced. However, this caused an uproar globally across Muslim communities and people protested as this decree hurt their religious sentiments and forced them into violating religious customs and final rites.
PM hails step of Sri Lankan premier about Muslims’ burial
There was a restriction of incineration of the bodies due to fears of infectivity in the midst of a pandemic
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It is a commendable move for Imran Khan to raise the problems of the Muslim community in Sri Lanka, but at the same time, Imran Khan should also say when he would raise his voice on the Uighur Muslim issue in China. Or what does he think about preventing the atrocities committed by the Pakistani army against the Baloch Muslims in Balochistan? Pakistan and Imran Khan consider themselves the world’s contractors of Islam, but they can not dare to speak about the excesses of China against Muslims. So far, the government has failed to stop the Shia Muslim massacre in Pakistan, but Imran Khan is highly worried about Sri Lanka’s Muslims. In the same way, Baloch and Pakhtun Muslims were bombarded by Pakistan’s military, but Imran Khan never thought about that. People involved in the Shia Hazara massacre have yet to be caught, but Imran Khan sees Muslim problems all over the world, with the exception of Pakistan and China. It reveals Imran Khan’s duplicity.