{"id":9000,"date":"2020-06-22T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=9000"},"modified":"2020-06-22T06:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T06:04:25","slug":"sri-lanka-unaware-of-alert-from-pakistan-prior-to-easter-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/sri-lanka-unaware-of-alert-from-pakistan-prior-to-easter-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka unaware of alert from Pakistan prior to Easter attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Sri Lanka is unaware of an alert from Pakistan prior to the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The Pakistan High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Maj.Gen (Rtd) Muhammad Saad Khattak had told a private television station that Pakistan had alerted Sri Lanka of a plot to launch attacks on Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">He said that however no follow up action was taken by the Sri Lankan Government at the time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">However, then State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene said that he was not aware of such a warning received from Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Wijewardene told Colombo Gazette that the only alert they received was from India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">\u201cFollowing the Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019, the Intelligence Unit informed me of a warning from India, but nothing related to Pakistan\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Then President Maithripala Sirisena and then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had said they were not alerted by local intelligence agencies about the plot to attack hotels and churches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Over 250 individuals were killed and over 500 injured in multiple bombings targeting hotels and churches across Sri Lanka on 21 April 2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">The attack was carried out by a local group which had the support of the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;line-height: 150%\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is unaware of an alert from Pakistan prior to the Easter Sunday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9001,"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-9000","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\/9000","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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}