{"id":74049,"date":"2021-08-20T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T05:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=74049"},"modified":"2021-08-20T01:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T06:00:07","slug":"unp-leader-ranil-wickremesinghe-urges-gotabaya-govt-not-to-recognize-the-taliban-led-administration-in-afghanistanclose-down-diplomatic-mission-in-kabul-and-relocate-it-elsewhere-in-the-region-sugge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=74049","title":{"rendered":"UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe Urges Gotabaya Govt Not to Recognize the Taliban led Administration in Afghanistan;Close  Down Diplomatic Mission in Kabul and Relocate it Elsewhere in the Region Suggests Former PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By<\/p>\n<p>Yohan Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today urged the government not to recognise the Taliban administration and to shut down the Sri Lankan mission in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sri Lanka should focus on Afghanistan, as it could become a hub for terror groups such as Jihads and even Al-Qaeda&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p> Therefore Sri Lanka should not recognize the new administration in that nation. Sri Lanka should also close down its diplomatic mission in Afghanistan and open a new office in another nation in the same region,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Afghanistan became a terror hub last time when the Taliban was controlling it. Terrorism might raise its head in Sri Lanka once again if diplomatic ties continue with the new Afghan regime,&#8221; he warned. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:Daily Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton74049\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D74049&amp;text=UNP%20Leader%20Ranil%20Wickremesinghe%20Urges%20Gotabaya%20Govt%20Not%20to%20Recognize%20the%20Taliban%20led%20Administration%20in...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yohan Perera Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today urged the government not to recognise the Taliban administration and to shut down the Sri Lankan mission in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74050,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74049\/revisions\/74050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}