Pakistan-Sri Lanka relations: An exercise in world class diplomacy dailynews.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailynews.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Talat Masood
Sri Lanka is one of the few countries in South Asia with which Pakistan has endeavored to develop a broad-based relationship covering trade, commerce, culture and defense matters. Successive governments in Pakistan, whether they were democratic or military dictatorships, have valued this relationship and made efforts to further widen and deepen it.
This is despite the fact that Sri Lanka s interest in strengthening these relations has varied with which political party or group has been in power. It would be a fair assumption to say that in South Asia, Sri Lanka and Nepal are the two countries with which Pakistan has sustained relatively the most balanced and cooperative relationship.
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The biannual exercise also gives Russia and NATO members an opportunity to engage militarily, he added.
“The exercise will also serve as a diplomatic push for Islamabad,” said Masood, who served in the army from 1951 to 1990. “Pakistan has shown that it has expanded its diplomatic clout to the point where it can bring together the countries that otherwise are hostile to each other.”
Munawar Hussain Panhwar, an assistant professor at the Quaid-I-Azam International University in Islamabad, said the rare military contact between Russia and the US is in accordance with US President Joe Biden’s policy of “engagement .
The drill, he added, would also give a push to Islamabad’s efforts to boost defence and military ties with Russia – a longtime Indian ally.