“US says Lashkar in Lanka”- Reply
Latheef Farook
Citing PTI report Admiral Robert Willard, Commander of the US Pacific Command in his testimony before the US Senate Armed Services Committee, has said, in response to a question from Senator George Lemieux, that the Lasker e Taiba group is expanding and specifically positioning in Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
He has also said that “we have certainly knowledge of their influence within the region beyond the countries that I just mentioned. The extent of that influence is what we’re taking under study,”
Now that the government has rejected these reports saying there was no evidence to prove that the group was in the island it is extremely important that the US provide details about this so called LET influence in Sri Lanka right away in view of the serious Implications of this disclosure to Sri Lankan Muslims, more…
