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| Sunday, 23 November 2003 |
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Hakeem leads team to India by P. Krishnaswamy A Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) team headed by party leader, Minister Rauff Hakeem, will go on a five-day visit to Darjeeling, Ladakh and Pondicherry in India to study the system of governance there. The team will leave on December 1, on an invitation extended by India's Deputy High Commissioner in Colombo, Mohan Kumar, SLMC General Secretary, Hasan Ali, told the "Sunday Observer". Ali said that party frontliners and leaders of the Muslim community met yesterday morning at the party headquarters to discuss their visit. Yesterday, they also met a prominent South African National Congress (ANC) leader, Ibrahim, presently advisor to the Vice President of S. Africa and a close confidant of national leader, Nelson Mandela. They held very constructive discussion on the Sri Lankan ethnic issue, the peace process and the point of view of the Muslim community with regard to its participation in the process, Ali said. The South African leader admitted having been given an entirely wrong picture of Muslims' stand with regard to their independent participation in the peace process, Ali said. Ibrahim who is on a three-day visit on the invitation of the Berghoss Foundation, functioning as a wing of the Canada-based Forum of Federation, left for South Africa yesterday, Ali further said. |
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