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I went through all the proposals of the APRC. I fully support your
proposals and the same time defeating the LTTE terrorists in the North
by militarily. Good timing for proposals, we need to give Tamils'
demands in North and East.
We should give these to Tamils and other people living in the North,
not to the LTTE. The LTTE has to be defeated militarily.
The JVP is always against any proposals like the LTTE.
Send a few of those JVP guys (MPs) by State money to the USA and to
show them how power is divided in US States.
They are Sinhala extremists with nice talks to fool people in Sri
Lanka. The UNP is power hungry. We, as Sinhalese have to give something
to the Tamils and Muslims living in the North and the East.
By these proposals, we could win the international community more.
Get help from India also if you need it.
They created this problem but it's okay. One day our country will
come to much better position than India once this problem is over. Dear
President, please go for these solutions.
I fully support your bold decision.
I do not belong to any political party in Sri Lanka because I do not
believe in any party. I see the right and wrong. Please go for a
political solution while defeating the LTTE militarily.
Do not wait till the LTTE is defeated.
The Tamil and Muslim people deserve a political solution whether the
LTTE exists or not. Do not listen to the JVP about these proposals. Mr.
President, go for your ideas and give a solution to the ethnic problem.
You're going in the right direction.
Then this problem will not burden the next generation. We will always
support your political solution.
Ajith Chandrasekera,
USA
Man was created way above all other God's creations blessed with the
faculty to think and reason, and to distinguish right from wrong, and
truth from falsehood, is today wallowing in the quagmire of corruption
and wanton destruction.
Why is this so? He who should know what our creator Allah (SWT)
expects of us, to live in accordance, and obedience to his commands, has
today drifted away from Islam.
Islam means peace and compassion towards fellow beings. However, is
this what is happening? Corruption and dishonesty seem to be the order
of the day. Man has deviated from the path of righteousness and is
sliding down the path to anarchy. Man who should be leading an exemplary
life, in keeping with Islam, has veered away from Islam.
Islam is a way of life, a practical religion and a guidance to man.
what is it that lures man away from the path of truth and righteousness.
Life in this world is transitional and the stepping stone to the next
world, and the hereafter. We come to this world, and depart the same
way.
Allah has laid down how man conducts himself in this life in keeping
with the Quran and Sunnah. We are answerable for our every action. Today
the world over, there is much that lures man away from the righteous
path.
Allah is oft forgiving and merciful, but man in his quest for all he
yearns, does not realise where he is heading to. Everything in this
world was created for man. Has he realised this and strives to live in
keeping with Allah's commands?
We are seeing today, to what levels man has deviated from the path of
truth and righteousness. Many are the pitfalls in his path, and it is
his duty to his creator, that he strives to bring about what Allah (SWT)
his creator and sustainer has decreed for him.
The life in the hereafter is the everlasting life, that man has to
strive for, if he hopes to enter Jannah. But man is carried away by the
false values of this world.
If man deviates from Islam, it is he who stands to loose. Islam
forbids free mingling of sexes, that results in illicit relationships
that brings about incurable disease. If man and woman resort to such
relationship, there is no cure for this.
When everything has been created for man and his well-being, Man has
to abide by Allah's commands and laws laid down for his well-being.
nothing is beyond him, if only he strives for this.
There is a code of conduct for both man and woman, that they abide by
to bring about better relationships between them.
Man is created with lust, as such, he has to live in accordance with
Quran and Sunnah. He has to create a family, whereby he has to enhance
and increase the population. Man believes he can live in this world in
accordance with his wishes. Marriage and procreation have to be in
keeping with his way of life, according to his wishes.
But is this so, and can it be so? What Allah has decreed can never be
revoked. Our needs and everyone's needs are as Allah has ordained for
us, can never be increased or decreased.
We depart from this world in keeping with Allah's time not a minute
earlier nor later. We have to increase our Taqwa, and put our trust in
him our creator and sustainer. The trust we place in him is for our
well-being. Let's remind ourselves of our duties and obligations to each
other and not live as we want, nor isolate ourselves. It is incumbent on
us think and contemplate on why we are here, and our purpose in life.
AYESHA YUSUF,
Kalubowila
The GMR proudly announced recently that with the arrival of 100 new
carriages from China, the railway service will greatly improve.
What has happened to the railways during the last few days with
almost a derailment or a railway accident per day will prove his
statement wrong.
The GMR for some unknown reason hurriedly ordered hundred railway
compartments from China. He also goes on record to say that the railway
does not have sufficient funds to maintain the railway tracks.
What any sensible person would have done was to first put the tracks
in order with whatever funds or loans that were available, rather than
jump and order carriages from China.
I wonder if he has heard the saying putting the carriage before the
horse!
I hope sane counsel will prevail in the railway.
TILAK FERNANDO,
Colombo 6
All the teachers who serve in very remote Government schools in the
Bingiriya Educational Division of the Kuliyapitiya Educational Zone are
now being paid a difficult area allowance by the Ministry of Education.
Ministry of Education has categorised schools as convenient, very
remote and difficult area schools. According to these categorisation,
teachers who work in very remote and difficult areas qualify to receive
incentives from the Government.
Since all teachers who work in very remote schools in the Bingiriya
Educational Division enjoy these incentives, while teachers who work in
difficult area schools are deprived of these incentives for nearly one
and half years.
These teachers too undergo much inconvenience such as lack of
travelling facilities and pure drinking water. These teachers too render
their services with dedication in spite of all difficulties that they
encounter in discharging their duties and responsibilities in these
schools.
Therefore, we, the teachers who work in difficult area schools in the
Bingiriya Educational Division respectfully appeal to the Minister of
Education Susil Premajayanth to look into our plight early and resume
the payment of difficult area allowances.
A GROUP OF TEACHERS WHO WORK IN DIFFICULT AREA
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