{"id":3784,"date":"2015-05-12T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T08:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanhc.lk\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:16:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:46:17","slug":"sri-lankan-president-thanks-pakistan-for-support-to-end-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan President Thanks Pakistan for Support to End Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/2015\/05\/sri-lankan-president-thanks-pakistan-for-support-to-end-terrorism\/unnamed-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3785\" title=\"unnamed (5)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/unnamed-5-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"Sri Lankan President Thanks Pakistan for Support to End Terrorism\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">President Maithripala Sirisena said\u00a0that the government\u00a0as well as the entire\u00a0Sri Lankan\u00a0nation is grateful to Pakistan for the enormous assistance provided to Sri Lanka to defeat terrorists. \u201cSri Lanka today stands as a peaceful unitary State because of your support,\u201d he told the new High Commissioner of Pakistan\u00a0to Sri Lanka, Maj Gen (Rtd.) Syed Shakeel Hussain, when he presented his credentials today (May 12) at the Presidential Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>The President also expressed his gratitude to Pakistan for the support extended at the international forums in general and at the UNHRC in particular. \u201cYour Ambassador in Geneva fought for us as if he was fighting for his own country,\u201d President Maithripala said.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassador requested Sri Lanka to provide archaeological expertise to Pakistan for the excavation and development of Buddhist sites such as Taxilla\u00a0which President\u00a0Srisena\u00a0readily acceded.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Hussain said his government has a very high regard for President Sirisena and his steadfast policies and said he would work to further strengthen relations between the two countries\u00a0besides expanding\u00a0trade and economic ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena said\u00a0that the government\u00a0as well as the entire\u00a0Sri Lankan\u00a0nation is grateful to Pakistan for the enormous assistance provided to Sri Lanka to defeat terrorists. \u201cSri Lanka today stands as a peaceful unitary State because of your support,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3785,"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\/3784"}],"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=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8318,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/8318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}