Imran Khan’s planned speech in Lankan Parliament cancelled

TIL Desk/World/Islamabad/ Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s planned address to the Sri Lankan Parliament, during his upcoming visit to the island country, has been cancelled. Khan is scheduled to travel to Colombo on a two-day trip from February 22.

Besides his meetings with Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and attending an investors’ conference, he was to address the Sri Lankan Parliament on February 24.

It is said that the speech to Parliament had been included in Khan’s itinerary on Pakistan government’s request. However, it was later cancelled, according to Sri Lankan media. Media reports from Sri Lanka give different reasons for the cancellation of Khan’s address.

According to reports, Foreign Secretary Jayanath Colombage as having said that Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena had requested for cancellation on the pretext of Covid-19.