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Published 06 May, 2014 06:15am

‘No Muslim terrorist cell in S. Lanka’

COLOMBO: The spokesman for Sri Lankan armed forces, Brig Ruwan Wanigasooriya, has said that there is no Islamic terrorist activity or terrorist cell in Lanka.

“We exercise the greatest vigilance. Till date, we have not found any evidence of the existence of Islamic terrorist activity or terrorist cells here,” he told newspersons on Monday. He was asked to comment on Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ela Ganesan’s statement that Pakistan was using Sri Lanka to train terrorists.

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