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arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit since taking office imran khan was welcomed by prime minister mahinda rajapaksa the leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade me now fernandes has more from colombo. the muslims of this country the minority numbering a little over 10 percent their hopes are riding on imran khan to sort out a burning issue they've been dealing with that is the government's policy of force cremations of course with 19 victims the muslim sort of minority has engaged with the government at multiple levels a centrally what they have said is their religion sort of bans the cremation of those who die and that this is not something in keeping with their beliefs they have urged the government to stop this and allow them to go ahead with the burial of those in their community but the government has sued for. choosing to ignore the guidelines and essentially scientific evidence which basically says that cremations and burials are both acceptable they have gone on a process of appointing different committees and they've kind of been stalling on this issue so on imran khan is

amendment president got a buyer rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including murder and torture. and now the u.n. says minority groups are facing more discrimination this protest in february was a rare combined march of muslims and tumbles with a long list of complaints including trying to get education in the tamil language and oppressive police surveillance of muslim lanka's government rejects all the allegations made in the report including claims he uses divisive rhetoric. calls constitutional guarantees as i mentioned before fundamental rights of all the citizens and anyone can can must under the fundamental right and or for all 3 lanka in the last few years as well as today we have all our programs economic social law and the many official programs all are equally. enjoyed and implemented from the not to the scout. leader not the raja's son was taken away by the military at the end of the war she's no ide

president got a buyer rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including murder and torture. and now the u.n. says minority groups are facing more discrimination this protest in february was a rare combined march of muslims and tumbles with a long list of complaints including trying to get education in the tunnel language and oppressive police surveillance of muslim lanka's government rejects all the allegations made in the report including claims he uses divisive rhetoric. constitutional guarantees as i mentioned before fundamental rights of all the citizens and anyone can can must under the fundamental right. and nor for 3 long. in the last few years as well as today. we have all our programs economic social law and the many official programs all are equally enjoyed and implemented from the not to the scout leader not the raja's son was taken away by the military at the end of the war she's no idea what h

lanka as president on the 2nd and final day of his visit on tuesday imran khan and prime minister mahinda rajapaksa discussed a joint efforts to fight religious extremism and how to help poor countries whether the pandemic major ones they should link or is expected to face strong criticism of the un human rights council that is jew in part for its failure to bring accountability to those involved in its 25 year long civil war. they speak to women often and as joins us live now from columbus mills a lot of important issues here for this visit what's the latest. that's right essentially the pakistan prime minister on wednesday met with president gore tabi rajapaksa that's of the presidential complex set up you see behind me and what we're hearing from the statement is that obviously the usual kind of rhetoric they had core deal talks they did sort of focus on the agricultural economy a book of both countries they talked about deepening bilateral relations but the key things like essentially the issue that many muslims here in sri lanka having issue with the government's policy of forced cre

amendment president got a bye rajapaksa was defense secretary at the end of the civil war is brother mahinda was president 100000 people were killed in the 26 year long war between tamil separatists and the government both sides are accused of crimes including murder and torture. and now the u.n. says minority groups are facing more discrimination this protest in february was a rare combined march of muslims and tumbles with a long list of complaints including trying to get education the tamil language and oppressive police surveillance of muslim lanka's government rejects all the allegations made in the report including claims he uses divisive rhetoric. cause constitution guarantees as i mentioned before fundamental rights of all he decides and anyone can canvass under the fundamental right an order for 3 long. in the last few years as well as today we have all our programs economic social law and the many official programs all. equally enjoyed and implemented from the not to the scout. leader not the raja's son was taken away by the military at the end of the war she's no idea what happene

arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit since taking office in iran can was welcomed by prime minister mahinda rajapaksa the leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trades let's bring in our correspondent me now fernandez who is live from sri lanka's capital colombo so just how significant a visit is this and what is true lanka hoping to get out of it now. well again the significance is all down to who you talk to folly for the muslims of this country the minority numbering a little over 10 percent here their hopes are riding on imran khan to sort out a burning issue they've been dealing with that is the government's folly policy of force cremations of corbett 19 victims the muslim sort of minority has engaged with the government at multiple levels essential ie what they have said is their religion sort of bans the cremation of those who die and that this is not something in keeping with their beliefs they have urged the government to stop this and allow them to go ahead with the burial of those in their community but the government has sued for. choosing to ignore the guidelines and essenti

a meeting with the lankan prime minister mahinda rajapaksa was the main thing on pakistan's prime in the same run cons should do on the 1st day of his visit to colombo centrally both of them had core deal discussions and in a joint statement at the end of it the sri lankan prime minister recalled essentially the good relations between the 2 countries obviously in a range of spheres but did talk about the sort of huge potential for further cooperation now obviously his pakistani counterpart also having fun memories of his time essentially when he 1st came to sri lanka as a cricketer but then also talking about essentially the cooperation between the 2 countries also putting in a bit of a plug for the one belt one road initiative of china that pakistan isn't involved in and iran can essentially encouraging. showing them the kind of potential it has this visitors to strengthen our bilateral relationship it is to strengthen our trading toys. part of. the pelton growth initiative of china. flagship program. connectivity good one thing that both leaders studiously avoided was essentially a

arrived in sri lanka his 1st visit since taking office imran khan was welcomed by a prime minister mahinda rajapaksa but leaders are expected to discuss bilateral trade and us has more now from colombia. the muslims of this country the minority numbering a little over 10 percent their hopes are riding on imran khan to sort out a burning issue they've been dealing with that is the government's policy of force cremations of corbett 19 victims the muslim sort of minority has engaged with the government at multiple levels a centrally what they have said is their religion sort of bans the cremation of those who die and that this is not something in keeping with their beliefs they have urged the government to stop this and allow them to go ahead with the burial of those in their community but the government has sued for. choosing to ignore the guidelines and essentially scientific evidence which basically says that cremations and burials are both acceptable they have gone on a process of appointing different committees and they've kind of been stalling on this issue so on imran khan is a huge so