C. Wijeyawickrema
Re-incarnation of Harold Laski        
            Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka (DJ), identified by Carlo Fonseka, the Colombo Marxist who once counted the number of kings in the Mahavamsa who killed a father or a sibling, as Sri Lanka’s Laski (The Island, 7/15/2009) has refused to answer a set of eleven questions I sent to him on [...]

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By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing 117 nations participating in the Non Aligned Nations summit in Egypt said under no circumstances the world should allow terrorism to raise its head.
 This is the largest international summit President Rajapaksa is participating after his troops ended a thirty yer long insurgency by one of the most ruthless terrorist [...]

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ALI SUKHANVER
“We are not the Afghan refugees. We were living a better life in Swat. We are eager to go back to our homes; we are the Swatis.” I remember the remarks of a young man Mukarram Khan who met me in a refugee camp for internally displaced persons of Swat near Islamabad. These remarks [...]

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Khalid Khokhar
18 May 2009, is an historic day for Sri Lanka as the security forces have finally defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militarily including its top leadership. After 26 years of ethnic conflict, the Government has been able to achieve control of entire Island including its entire coast line. The LTTE also [...]

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