{"id":2852,"date":"2013-09-09T14:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T09:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanhc.lk\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:48:19","slug":"pakistan-celebrated-defence-day-at-colombo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"PAKISTAN CELEBRATED DEFENCE DAY AT COLOMBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/2013\/09\/pakistan-celebrated-defence-day-at-colombo\/pic-1-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2853\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2853\" title=\"pic 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/pic-1-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"PAKISTAN CELEBRATED DEFENCE DAY 2013 AT COLOMBO\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka celebrated the Defence Day of Pakistan on 6 September 2013 at Hotel Galadari in Colombo.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The event attracted large gathering including Sri Lankan Government Ministers, Chief of Defence Staff, Commanders of Armed Forces of Sri Lanka, Inspector General of Police, High Commissioners\/Ambassadors, senior officers of three segments of Armed Forces of Sri Lanka, Government officials, Pakistani community and important personalities of the society.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">The Defence Advisor of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Colonel Sheharyar Parvez Butt gave out the welcome address followed by National Anthem of both friendly and time tested countries. The High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka H.E Major General (Retired) Qasim Qureshi read out the Message of the President of Pakistan.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\">Later, the Chief of Defence Staff alongwith Commanders of Sri Lanka Army, Navy, the High Commissioner and Defence Advisor Pakistan cut the cake on the occasion. The invitees were treated with Pakistani songs by Lieutenant Colonel Fernando of Sri Lanka Army and his team.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka celebrated the Defence Day of Pakistan on 6 September 2013 at Hotel Galadari in Colombo. The event attracted large gathering including Sri Lankan Government Ministers, Chief of Defence Staff, Commanders of Armed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2858,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}