{"id":84137,"date":"2018-12-14T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84137"},"modified":"2018-12-14T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:13:53","slug":"psd-playing-pandu-balls-and-president-also","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/14\/psd-playing-pandu-balls-and-president-also\/","title":{"rendered":"PSD PLAYING \u201cPANDU\u201d BALLS AND PRESIDENT ALSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When I was walking in Galle Face Green today , \u00a0I saw officers of the Presidents\u2019 Security Divisions ( PSD) playing balls ( cricket ) in Galle face. About 100 security lower- rankers were undergoing physical \u00a0training in the vicinity.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen Green Berets guards Guarding American president undergoing training with officers, and noted \u00a0that they never dreamt of playing \u00a0base ball\u201d during training sessions .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84139\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sarath141218A.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"454\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was standing just 20 meter away when President Premadasa was blown into pieces near Galwala .I observed that untrained Mohideen in military fatigue shadowing him with no of the other Green Berets  watching people nearing the President.<\/p>\n<p>When there is a threat to the president as confessed by one Rohan Kumara and connivance of a DIG can we afford to have PSD playing balls\u201d ?<\/p>\n<p>President has been \u00a0out more than three times in the play of politics after playing \u00a0No Balls \u00a0by the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>President should also try not to play no balls\u201d and advise his protectors to stop playing in public and be ready to protect him with their lives .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I was walking in Galle Face Green today , \u00a0I saw officers of the Presidents\u2019 Security Divisions ( PSD) playing balls ( cricket ) in Galle face. About 100 security lower- rankers were undergoing physical \u00a0training in the vicinity. I have seen Green Berets guards Guarding American president undergoing training with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}