Friday, March 20, 2009
Students Visit Sri Lankan Embassy
Pak-Sri Lankan friendship is time tested and unbreakable. We need to have students and teachers exchange programs between our brotherly countries. Pakistan helped Sri Lanka whenever required and the same way we want to reciprocate. We are satisfied with the investigation of the attack on Sri Lankan team. These sentiments were expressed by His Excellency Air Chief Marshal ® Jayalath Weerakkody, the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka in Islamabad. He was addressing a delegation of students from Modernage Public School & College Abbottabad, who visited the embassy to deliver a cricket bat signed by Modernage cricket team, and a letter written by the entire student body, totaling in over 1700 signatures.
The honorable High Commissioner thanked the students and reminded the delegation that there was a time when no other cricket team was willing to play in Sri Lanka and the Pakistani team visited Sri Lanka to give the support and the credibility that Sri Lanka needed to become a major team. He stated that Sri Lankan nation has not forgotten that generous gesture by Pakistan and as a result of this decades old friendship, the Sri Lankan nation is not intimidated by the horrible incident in Lahore and if invited, the Sri Lankan team would come again to Play in Pakistan.
Abdul Wahid Mir, Principal Modernage, thanked the High Commissioner and the staff at the embassy for their hospitality and stressed the need to find common ground to further strengthen the ties between the two cricket loving nations. He also offered free of cost teachers training to Sri Lankan teachers either in Pakistan or Sri Lanka.
While talking to the High Commissioner, the students expressed their support for Sri Lankan cricket team and invited the Ambassador to visit Abbottabad, which the Ambassador graciously accepted.
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