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PM Imran welcomes Sri Lankan govt’s decision allowing Muslims to bury Covid-19 victims

Asad Iqbal by Asad Iqbal
February 26, 2021
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PM Imran welcomes Sri Lankan govt’s decision allowing Muslims to bury Covid-19 victims

Prime Minister Imran Khan is greeted by his Sri Lankan counterpart Mahinda Rajapaksa upon arrival in Colombo. — Dharti News/Files

Head Of State Imran Khan on Friday welcomed the Sri Lankan federal government’s decision to allow the funeral of Covid-19 sufferers, days after the premier’s check out to Colombo.

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On February 10, Head Of State Imran had admired his Sri Lankan equivalent Mahinda Rajapaksa’s news that interments would certainly be enabled. A day later on, nevertheless, Rajapaksa backtracked and also claimed there would certainly be no change in the cremation-only policy.

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The restriction had stimulated objections by Muslims who hide their dead based on Islamic customs. The Muslim neighborhood in Sri Lanka had held a demonstration before Head of state Imran’s visit, where they brought a mock janazah or coffin.

” Respect Head of state’s statement and enable burials,” one banner at the demonstration read.

On February 25, a day after Prime Minister Imran concluded his two-day main see to Colombo, the Sri Lankan government issued an alert claiming that the order has actually been modified to allow both interment as well as cremation of people that passed away due to Covid.

” I say thanks to the Sri Lankan leadership & invite the Sri Lankan govt’s main alert permitting the burial option for those passing away of Covid 19,” PM Imran claimed in a tweet uploaded today.

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi too claimed that Pakistan was “happy” to the management of Sri Lanka for enabling the burial of Covid-19 sufferers.

” Indeed it is these really principles of good understanding, respect as well as mankind that bring connections to thrive as well as prosper,” he tweeted.

Head of state’s aide Zulfi Bukhari shared pictures of a duplicate of the gazette notification released by the Sri Lankan government as well as claimed: “Appreciate Sri Lankan govt’s main gazette alert enabling interment of #COVID 19 deceased in #SriLanka within few hours of PM @ImranKhanPTI’s go to. It is every Muslim’s last right to be buried as was asked for by #PMIK.”

Restriction on burials
The Sri Lankan government had imposed a ban on burials in April amid problems– which experts state are unwarranted– by prominent Buddhist monks that burying bodies can contaminate groundwater as well as spread out the virus.

The World Health Organisation has stated there is no such danger, recommending both interment and cremation of virus targets.

Commonly, Muslims hide their dead facing Makkah. Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhists, that are strong backers of the current federal government, are typically cremated, as are Hindus.

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In December, the Sri Lankan authorities bought the forced cremation of at least 19 Muslim Covid-19 sufferers, including an infant, after their households rejected to declare their bodies from a health center morgue.

This stired dismay and also temper amongst the Muslim community, moderates and abroad, with the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Collaboration continuously expressing worry.

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