Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut many Islamic schools

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday (March 13), the latest actions affecting the country's minority Muslim population. https://str.sg/JjBC

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