{"id":90541,"date":"2019-06-19T15:15:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90541"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:15:06","slug":"lanza-raises-questions-on-easter-sunday-attack-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/19\/lanza-raises-questions-on-easter-sunday-attack-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanza raises questions on Easter Sunday attack probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>UPFA MP Nimal Lanza today questioned whether MPs Kabir Hashim and Abdul Haleem were sworn in as Ministers&nbsp;because the probe on Easter Sunday attacks had&nbsp;been completed or whether the one month deadline they gave was over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Lanza was referring to the one month deadline which the Muslim Ministers gave the government to probe the Easter Sunday attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would like to know whether one month is over or the investigations have been completed. We are not against them accepting the ministerial portfolios,\u201d Mr. Lanza said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MP said he was referring to an mobile alert with regard to Kabir Hashim and Abdul Haleem accepting ministerial portfolios once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said it will not be possible to focus on the business in parliament if MPs raise questions on every mobile alert they get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella said appointing of Ministers is not a duty of Parliament.&nbsp;<em><strong>(Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror UPFA MP Nimal Lanza today questioned whether MPs Kabir Hashim and Abdul Haleem were sworn in as Ministers&nbsp;because the probe on Easter Sunday attacks had&nbsp;been completed or whether the one month deadline they gave was over. Mr. Lanza was referring to the one month deadline which the Muslim Ministers gave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90541","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=90541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}