{"id":6668,"date":"2019-06-20T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2019-06-20T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:42:39","slug":"kabir-hashim-and-mha-haleem-reappointed-as-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/kabir-hashim-and-mha-haleem-reappointed-as-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabir Hashim and MHA Haleem reappointed as ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Former ministers Kabir Hashim and MHA Haleem, who resigned from their ministerial portfolios earlier this month, have been reappointed to their previous posts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The two UNP parliamentarians have been sworn-in as ministers before President Maithripala Sirisena, President&#8217;s Media Division said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Accordingly, Kabir Hashim was sworn in as Minister of Highways, Road Development and Petroleum Resources Development and MHA Haleem has taken oath as Minister of Postal Services &amp; Muslim Religious Affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All Muslim ministers including cabinet, state and deputy ministers in the Sri Lankan government resigned from their ministerial portfolios on 3rd June citing the government&#8217;s failure to ensure the safety of Muslims following Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A meeting held yesterday with the participation of Muslim Ministers who resigned from their posts to take a decision on whether or not to accept their ministerial posts again ended inconclusively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former ministers Kabir Hashim and MHA Haleem, who resigned from their ministerial portfolios earlier&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}