{"id":106143,"date":"2013-09-19T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=106143"},"modified":"2013-09-22T01:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T20:29:51","slug":"tna-is-cheating-mahinda-a-man-of-good-calibre-to-solve-the-tamil-problem-kp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-is-cheating-mahinda-a-man-of-good-calibre-to-solve-the-tamil-problem-kp\/","title":{"rendered":"TNA Is Cheating, Mahinda A Man Of Good Calibre To Solve The Tamil Problem- KP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chief Arms procurer for the Tamil Tigers <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumaran+Pathmanathan&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\">Kumaran Pathmanathan<\/a><\/span> yesterday expressed fullest confidence in President Mahinda Rajapaksa&#8217;s ability to resolve the problem of SrI Lanka&#8217;s minority Tamils.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74439\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-kps-arrest-should-close-the-chapter-on-the-ltte-gosl\/kumaran-pathmanathan\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74439\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74439\" title=\"Kumaran Pathmanathan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kumaran-Pathmanathan-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kumaran-Pathmanathan-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Kumaran-Pathmanathan.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-74439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumaran Pathmanathan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Calling the President &#8216;a great leader&#8217; the former rebel leader said the government could resolve Tamil issues without the help of the international community.<\/p>\n<p>Pathmanathan said the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=12&amp;y=6\">President<\/a><\/span> was a man of good calibre to solve the Tamil problem.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting out hard against the TNA KP said the main Tamil party that is expected to win Saturday&#8217;s provincial poll was cheating the northern people. &#8220;You have to work with the majority community that is the only way,&#8221; the former LTTE member.<\/p>\n<p>Attacking the LTTE Pathmanathan said both the TNA and the Tigers were always rejecting overtures by the Government. 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The briefing for the journalists who had been escorted to the north by the army last morning took place at 12 noon at the Sencholai orphanage now run by KP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":74439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TNA Is Cheating, Mahinda A Man Of Good Calibre To Solve The Tamil Problem- KP - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/tna-is-cheating-mahinda-a-man-of-good-calibre-to-solve-the-tamil-problem-kp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TNA Is Cheating, Mahinda A Man Of Good Calibre To Solve The Tamil Problem- KP - 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