Deputy Minister of National Integration, Reconciliation & Official Languages
In office 2 May 2018 – 21 December 2018
President
Maithripala Sirisena
Prime Minister
Ranil Wickremesinghe
Member of Parliament of Sri Lanka for Batticaloa District
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 October 2023
Preceded by
Ahamed Nazeer Zainulabdeen
In office 17 August 2015 – 3 January 2020
In office 16 August 1994 – 23 July 2004
Member of Eastern Provincial Council
In office 6 February 2015 – 17 August 2015
Chairman of Eravur Urban Council
In office 17 March 2011 – 6 February 2015
In office 12 March 1994 – 16 August 1994
Minister of Economic Affairs, Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington, D.C.
In office 6 December 2007 – 15 December 2009
Personal details
Born
(1956-06-25) June 25, 1956 (age 67) Eravur, Dominion of Ceylon
Nationality
Sri Lankan
Political party
Sri Lanka Freedom Party United National Party Sri Lanka Muslim Congress
Other political affiliations
United People's Freedom Alliance United National Front for Good Governance
Residence(s)
Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Alma mater
Aligarh Central College
St. Michael's College
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Occupation
Politician
Profession
Software Engineer
Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana (born 25 June 1956) is a Sri Lankan politician, former diplomat and local government activist. He is most known for the pivotal and important role he played in bringing about an end to the Sri Lankan Civil War.[1]
He has been politically active since 1988, and is the current Member of Parliament for the Batticaloa District, the only directly elected Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Parliamentarian in the current Parliament of Sri Lanka.[2] He is the State Minister of Social Empowerment, appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena on 21 December 2018.
He was previously elected as a Member of Parliament for the Batticaloa District, under the United National Party from August 16, 1994, until his resignation on June 23, 2004.[3]
Moulana is most noted for his orchestration of the defection of prominent members of the LTTE guerrilla group, including its one-time Military Commander Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan (Colonel Karuna), from the militant group to the government in 2004.[4] He resigned his seat in Parliament shortly thereafter due to the rising threat on his life from the LTTE. Moulana thereafter was appointed as a high-ranking diplomat at the Embassy of Sri Lanka to the United States.,[5] and upon his return to Sri Lanka in 2010, he resumed his political career by being elected as the Mayor of Eravur, and thereafter as a Member of the Eastern Provincial Council [6] and held that position until his re-election to Parliament in August 2015.
He served as Minister of State for Primary Industries and Social Empowerment in the Maithripala Sirisena government from 2015 to 2019.
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^"Ranil to return as Prime Minister". The Hindu. 2015-08-18. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
^"Ali Zahir Moulana's resignation letter shedding more lights on Karuna's episode | Asian Tribune". asiantribune.com. Retrieved 2015-09-27.
^Jayasuriya, Ranga (27 June 2004). "The Karuna affaire". The Sunday Observer. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
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