The prime minister's address to the nation came a day after over a dozen police officers were taken hostage by the supporters of a banned outfit in Lahore.
Brushing aside pressure from various Muslim countries to stop cremating Muslim bodies, Sri Lanka on Thursday declared that it will continue to cremate all the bodies that have died of COVID-19.
The Iranian Parliament underlined its strong support for the positions adopted by the Algerian, Pakistan and Indonesian parliaments in opposition to the normalization of ties with Israel.
