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Pakistan Assists Sri Lanka In War Against Tigers
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General Kayani of Pakistan Army hosts a dinner to share the jubilation of Sri Lanka friends in defeating LTTE
(By: Walter Jayawardhana)
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani , Chief of Army Staff in Pakistan and Begum Ashfaq Parvez Kayani hosted a dinner "to share the jubilation with" their "Sri Lankan friends on their historic victory against LTTE" at the Army House, the official residence of the Commander in Islamabad.
Pakistan's Sri Lanka High Commissioner former Air Chief Vice Marshall Jayalath Weerakkody and his wife were the chief guests at this state dinner.
General Kayani said he, the government, the armed forces of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan were glad to be able to share the jubilation of Sri Lanka to crush terrorism in the island nation. He said Sri Lanka had been Pakistan's very close friend for the last so many years and Pakistan was particularly proud about Sri Lanka's immense victory.
While conveying his good wishes to Sri Lanka's armed forces General Kayani said he is confident the strong cooperation existing at present could be even made stronger in the future.
Replying Sri Lanka's High Commissioner Jayalath Weerakkody said Sri Lanka and Pakistan political and defence wise enjoy the best of mutual relations. Even back in 1996, when Sri Lanka faced tremendous difficulties militarily in quelling the strong militaristic terrorism , aimed both at the armed forces and police as well as unarmed civilians Pakistan helped the island nation without imposing any conditions. The credit, said Ambassador Weerakkody, should go to the government, the armed forces and the people of Pakistan.
He said, the help rendered was more precious as it was rendered in the midst of some international opposition. He said, he was confident the military relationship would improve in the future.
General Kayani of Pakistan Army hosts a dinner to share the jubilation of Sri Lanka friends in defeating LTTE
(By: Walter Jayawardhana)
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani , Chief of Army Staff in Pakistan and Begum Ashfaq Parvez Kayani hosted a dinner "to share the jubilation with" their "Sri Lankan friends on their historic victory against LTTE" at the Army House, the official residence of the Commander in Islamabad.
Pakistan's Sri Lanka High Commissioner former Air Chief Vice Marshall Jayalath Weerakkody and his wife were the chief guests at this state dinner.
General Kayani said he, the government, the armed forces of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan were glad to be able to share the jubilation of Sri Lanka to crush terrorism in the island nation. He said Sri Lanka had been Pakistan's very close friend for the last so many years and Pakistan was particularly proud about Sri Lanka's immense victory.
While conveying his good wishes to Sri Lanka's armed forces General Kayani said he is confident the strong cooperation existing at present could be even made stronger in the future.
Replying Sri Lanka's High Commissioner Jayalath Weerakkody said Sri Lanka and Pakistan political and defence wise enjoy the best of mutual relations. Even back in 1996, when Sri Lanka faced tremendous difficulties militarily in quelling the strong militaristic terrorism , aimed both at the armed forces and police as well as unarmed civilians Pakistan helped the island nation without imposing any conditions. The credit, said Ambassador Weerakkody, should go to the government, the armed forces and the people of Pakistan.
He said, the help rendered was more precious as it was rendered in the midst of some international opposition. He said, he was confident the military relationship would improve in the future.
General Kayani of Pakistan Army hosts a dinner to share the jubilation of Sri Lanka friends in defeating LTTE
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New Tiger leader arrested in Thailand: Sri Lanka
Updated at: 0910 PST, Friday, August 07, 2009
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's state television announced that the new head of the remnants of the Tamil Tiger rebels had been arrested in Thailand.
Selvarasa Pathmanathan, better known as K.P., was detained in Bangkok, the state TV channel said without giving details.
However, it said the man, along with another rebel, was now in the hands of Sri Lankan authorities.
Pathmanathan, an overseas-based leader who took over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) following the killing of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in mid-May, was also wanted by Interpol on gun-running charges.
New Tiger leader arrested in Thailand: Sri Lanka
Updated at: 0910 PST, Friday, August 07, 2009
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's state television announced that the new head of the remnants of the Tamil Tiger rebels had been arrested in Thailand.
Selvarasa Pathmanathan, better known as K.P., was detained in Bangkok, the state TV channel said without giving details.
However, it said the man, along with another rebel, was now in the hands of Sri Lankan authorities.
Pathmanathan, an overseas-based leader who took over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) following the killing of its supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran in mid-May, was also wanted by Interpol on gun-running charges.
New Tiger leader arrested in Thailand: Sri Lanka
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SL spies help to crush LTTE remnants
Thursday, August 13, 2009
By Ranga Sirilal
Sri Lankas capture of a van packed with explosives by Tamil Tiger rebels gave a glimpse into the intelligence war the government is waging against the remnant operatives of a group finally defeated on the battlefield in May.
The military on Wednesday said a tip-off from a captured rebel led it to recover the van filled with 20 five-kg claymore antipersonnel mines in the northeastern city of Mannar, and arrest three Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)operatives.
Still there are isolated LTTE cadres operating. They maybe getting instructions from overseas operatives and sympathisers, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
LTTE operatives overseas may be keen to carry out a suicide attack to re-energise supporters demoralised since the military won a 25-year war in May and killed nearly all of the LTTEs top ranks including founder-leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran.
Despite the leadership being gone, they maybe wanted to do some kind of sabotage, Nanayakkara said.
Any suicide or guerrilla attack has the potential to reverse some of Sri Lankas fast post-war gains, something President Mahinda Rajapaksas administration wants to avoid.
Tourist arrivals have risen and the Colombo Stock Exchange is one of Asias best-performing bourses in 2009, gaining more than 32 per cent since the end of the war. High foreign inflows have helped stabilise the rupee.
Tuesdays interception follows a much bigger intelligence coup last week: the capture of new LTTE leader Selvarajah Pathmanathan in a southeast Asian nation that the government has refused to identify.
Better known by his nickname KP, Pathmanathan for decades ran the LTTEs weapons procurement and multi-million dollar fundraising, smuggling and extortion network.
He was the highest-ranking Tiger leader left and his interrogations are expected to yield valuable intelligence to help Sri Lanka catch other LTTE operatives, many of whom are operating from overseas.
Taken together with the massive operation to unearth millions of dollars worth of hidden weapons and explosives caches buried all over northern and eastern Sri Lanka, the two sets of arrests underscore the scale of the post-war intelligence operation.
The military this week even put up wanted posters and public announcements to track down a suspected female suicide bomber in her 20s, believed to be in hiding in Colombo.
SL spies help to crush LTTE remnants
Thursday, August 13, 2009
By Ranga Sirilal
Sri Lankas capture of a van packed with explosives by Tamil Tiger rebels gave a glimpse into the intelligence war the government is waging against the remnant operatives of a group finally defeated on the battlefield in May.
The military on Wednesday said a tip-off from a captured rebel led it to recover the van filled with 20 five-kg claymore antipersonnel mines in the northeastern city of Mannar, and arrest three Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)operatives.
Still there are isolated LTTE cadres operating. They maybe getting instructions from overseas operatives and sympathisers, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara said.
LTTE operatives overseas may be keen to carry out a suicide attack to re-energise supporters demoralised since the military won a 25-year war in May and killed nearly all of the LTTEs top ranks including founder-leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran.
Despite the leadership being gone, they maybe wanted to do some kind of sabotage, Nanayakkara said.
Any suicide or guerrilla attack has the potential to reverse some of Sri Lankas fast post-war gains, something President Mahinda Rajapaksas administration wants to avoid.
Tourist arrivals have risen and the Colombo Stock Exchange is one of Asias best-performing bourses in 2009, gaining more than 32 per cent since the end of the war. High foreign inflows have helped stabilise the rupee.
Tuesdays interception follows a much bigger intelligence coup last week: the capture of new LTTE leader Selvarajah Pathmanathan in a southeast Asian nation that the government has refused to identify.
Better known by his nickname KP, Pathmanathan for decades ran the LTTEs weapons procurement and multi-million dollar fundraising, smuggling and extortion network.
He was the highest-ranking Tiger leader left and his interrogations are expected to yield valuable intelligence to help Sri Lanka catch other LTTE operatives, many of whom are operating from overseas.
Taken together with the massive operation to unearth millions of dollars worth of hidden weapons and explosives caches buried all over northern and eastern Sri Lanka, the two sets of arrests underscore the scale of the post-war intelligence operation.
The military this week even put up wanted posters and public announcements to track down a suspected female suicide bomber in her 20s, believed to be in hiding in Colombo.
SL spies help to crush LTTE remnants
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Sri Lanka soldiers adapt to post-war pastimes
By Mel Gunasekera
After a massive military offensive that attracted international concern about civilian deaths, the Tigers were eventually crushed in May last year
In a wooden shelter in north Sri Lanka a soldier has swapped his gun for a pair of scissors, trimming hair and beards of civilians who now travel through what was a war zone until last year.
Business is brisk at the army-run salon, which also offers scalp and foot massages by battle-hardened soldiers.
Next-door is the Military Cafe, where veterans of the governments long civil war against the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels now serve up tea and snacks to passing domestic tourists.
The food is fresh. Its made in the nearby army camp. Prices same as elsewhere, said Corporal Nimal Karunaratne at the cafe in Mankulam, 300 kilometres north of Colombo as uniformed soldiers wipe plastic tables.
The small businesses are just two signs of how the end of the war last May has affected life in Sri Lanka.
Situated on the main A9 highway that links the northern Jaffna peninsular to the islands south, Mankulam was a stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels who controlled one-third of Sri Lanka as recently as 2006.
After a massive military offensive that attracted international concern about civilian deaths, the Tigers were eventually crushed in May last year.
But the northeast of Sri Lanka, scene of much of the fighting, has been left a scarred and deserted landscape, as former residents are unable or unwilling to return to many of the villages destroyed by the war.
The area is still littered with landmines and other unexploded ordnance. With little or no civilian life, the military has set up shops along the highway selling groceries, top-up phone cards and food.
A few miles up the road, Malaysian mobile phone operator Dialog has erected advertising over a military hut selling snacks to local tourists. Many pose for pictures near the burnt-out shell of a bulldozer used as a makeshift tank by the rebels.
Back in the capital Colombo, a former naval troop carrier is being used as a venue for cocktail parties.
A sound system plays hits by Swedish pop-group ABBA as guests sip drinks and watch the sunset from the decks of the Jetliner.
As the vessel leaves port on its short evening voyage, dozens of navy women release colourful streamers and balloons. A naval tug blares horns and a sailor points out passing landmarks to guests.
This is the new image that the Sri Lanka government wants to project, navy chief Thisara Samarasinghe told AFP as he mingled with guests aboard the ship, including diplomats, leisure industry executives and socialites. During the final years of war, the Jetliner ferried 3,000 men and military supplies to the battlefields up and down the northeast coast. It came under attack many times but was never hit, Samarasinghe explained to his guests as they took pictures of Colombos shoreline.
The Jetliner began its new life in January as a floating banquet hall and a venue for corporate events, weddings and seminars.
Now operated as a commercial venture by the navy, the bill is $18,000 for a five-hour cruise with a navy band and meals cooked by staff from a Colombo five-star hotel for 350 guests.
We are not losing money, we are not making a lot of money, but let us say our order book is nearly full until Christmas, Samarasinghe said, declining to say when the vessel will be returned to its Indonesian owners. In another example of military marketing, at Palaly airbase in the north of the island, air force helicopters are on hire to businessmen. Prices for an hour range from $950 for a four-seater Bell 206 to $3,000 for ride in a Russian-built Mi-17 transporter, air force spokesman Janaka Nanayakkara said. afp
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By Mel Gunasekera
After a massive military offensive that attracted international concern about civilian deaths, the Tigers were eventually crushed in May last year
In a wooden shelter in north Sri Lanka a soldier has swapped his gun for a pair of scissors, trimming hair and beards of civilians who now travel through what was a war zone until last year.
Business is brisk at the army-run salon, which also offers scalp and foot massages by battle-hardened soldiers.
Next-door is the Military Cafe, where veterans of the governments long civil war against the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels now serve up tea and snacks to passing domestic tourists.
The food is fresh. Its made in the nearby army camp. Prices same as elsewhere, said Corporal Nimal Karunaratne at the cafe in Mankulam, 300 kilometres north of Colombo as uniformed soldiers wipe plastic tables.
The small businesses are just two signs of how the end of the war last May has affected life in Sri Lanka.
Situated on the main A9 highway that links the northern Jaffna peninsular to the islands south, Mankulam was a stronghold of the Tamil Tiger rebels who controlled one-third of Sri Lanka as recently as 2006.
After a massive military offensive that attracted international concern about civilian deaths, the Tigers were eventually crushed in May last year.
But the northeast of Sri Lanka, scene of much of the fighting, has been left a scarred and deserted landscape, as former residents are unable or unwilling to return to many of the villages destroyed by the war.
The area is still littered with landmines and other unexploded ordnance. With little or no civilian life, the military has set up shops along the highway selling groceries, top-up phone cards and food.
A few miles up the road, Malaysian mobile phone operator Dialog has erected advertising over a military hut selling snacks to local tourists. Many pose for pictures near the burnt-out shell of a bulldozer used as a makeshift tank by the rebels.
Back in the capital Colombo, a former naval troop carrier is being used as a venue for cocktail parties.
A sound system plays hits by Swedish pop-group ABBA as guests sip drinks and watch the sunset from the decks of the Jetliner.
As the vessel leaves port on its short evening voyage, dozens of navy women release colourful streamers and balloons. A naval tug blares horns and a sailor points out passing landmarks to guests.
This is the new image that the Sri Lanka government wants to project, navy chief Thisara Samarasinghe told AFP as he mingled with guests aboard the ship, including diplomats, leisure industry executives and socialites. During the final years of war, the Jetliner ferried 3,000 men and military supplies to the battlefields up and down the northeast coast. It came under attack many times but was never hit, Samarasinghe explained to his guests as they took pictures of Colombos shoreline.
The Jetliner began its new life in January as a floating banquet hall and a venue for corporate events, weddings and seminars.
Now operated as a commercial venture by the navy, the bill is $18,000 for a five-hour cruise with a navy band and meals cooked by staff from a Colombo five-star hotel for 350 guests.
We are not losing money, we are not making a lot of money, but let us say our order book is nearly full until Christmas, Samarasinghe said, declining to say when the vessel will be returned to its Indonesian owners. In another example of military marketing, at Palaly airbase in the north of the island, air force helicopters are on hire to businessmen. Prices for an hour range from $950 for a four-seater Bell 206 to $3,000 for ride in a Russian-built Mi-17 transporter, air force spokesman Janaka Nanayakkara said. afp
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i dont know how these countries joined together.
india and pakistan
iran and israel
china and russia.
how united they stood against tamils just for there independence
shame on the world community .we tamils always were the firstone to condom injustice right from palastine iraq saddam hussain .nobody supported us
india and pakistan
iran and israel
china and russia.
how united they stood against tamils just for there independence
shame on the world community .we tamils always were the firstone to condom injustice right from palastine iraq saddam hussain .nobody supported us
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