President decide to ban burqa under emergency law

President Maithripala Sirisena has take  actions to ban any face coverings which can be a  threat to national

or public security and which can be a difficulty to identify individual personal from 29th of April.

It explains that the basic criterion for the identification of a person is the face and it should be clearly exposed through

this order.

The president has decided to take this action to make a peaceful society that does not embrassment to any community and

national security.