{"id":5438,"date":"2016-08-09T10:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T05:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanhc.lk\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2020-01-09T00:13:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:43:22","slug":"pakistans-air-chief-meets-sri-lankan-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/?p=5438","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Air Chief meets Sri Lankan President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/2016\/08\/pakistans-air-chief-meets-sri-lankan-president\/unnamed-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5439\" title=\"unnamed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/unnamed-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan\u2019s Air Chief meets Sri Lankan President\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Pakistan\u2019s Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman (NI, HI, SI, TI)\u00a0 called on Hon President\u00a0of Sri Lanka H.E Maithripala Sirisena at his official residence in Colombo today (August 9).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">During the meeting,\u00a0Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman conveyed best wishes and warm regards from the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan, to President H.E Maithripala Sirisena, as well as Government and people of Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Pakistan\u2019s Air Chief said that Pakistan and Sri Lanka are historically bonded in a relationship of trust, mutual respect and deep friendship, which is reflected in the strong multifaceted relationship between the two countries.\u00a0He added that the two brotherly countries have an excellent record of defense sector cooperation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">He appreciated the efforts of the Sri Lankan government in defeating the menace of terrorism from Sri Lankan Soil and reiterated Pakistan\u2019s continuous and unflinching support to Sri Lanka at all forums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman also briefed the President on current disturbances in Indian Held Kashmir.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">H.E Maithripala Sirisena thanked Pakistan for the continuous assistance given to Sri Lanka for training of air force personnel. He also strongly appreciated the all-out support extended by the Government of Pakistan to Sri Lanka at the international forums.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The President said Pakistan has proved to be a true friend of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lankan government as well as the people has deep affection for Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The President said that he is determined to call for regional cooperation for prevention of drugs and narcotics smuggling as the drug menace is harming the youths of our region. He added that he would call for such cooperation at the next Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Air Force Commander Gagana Bulathsinhala and Pakistan High Commissioner Syed Shakeel Hussain were also present on this occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman is in Sri Lanka on a two day official visit on the invitation of<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0the Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force Air Marshal G.P Bulattsinghala.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman (NI, HI, SI, TI)\u00a0 called on Hon President\u00a0of Sri Lanka H.E Maithripala Sirisena at his official residence in Colombo today (August 9). During the meeting,\u00a0Air Chief Marshal Sohail Aman conveyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438"}],"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=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanhc.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}