{"id":44737,"date":"2018-01-16T17:19:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44737"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T12:19:08","slug":"coas-reaches-srilanka-on-two-day-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44737","title":{"rendered":"COAS reaches Srilanka on two-day official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>RAWALPINDI Jan 16 (TNS):<\/strong> The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday reached Srilanka on a two-day official visit on receiving an invitation from his counterpart, according to a press release by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).<\/p>\n<p>General Bajwa held meetings with the Sri Lankan military leadership including the Chief of Defence Staff and the chiefs of all three services.<\/p>\n<p>The COAS was given guards of honour in all three service headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>He also visited the Command and Staff College Sri Lanka and interacted with faculty and staff. Sri Lankan leadership expressed its gratitude and appreciation for Pakistan&#8217;s unequivocal moral and material support during Sri Lanka&#8217;s successful war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>The host country also appreciated successes of Pakistan Army in the ongoing war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>General Bajwa highlighted that after clearing troubled areas from terrorists of all hues and colours, Pakistan is now going after their disorganised residual presence under Operation Raddul Fasad.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that Pakistan and Sri Lanka are probably the only two countries that understand what it takes to defeat the menace of terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>During the meetings, various new initiatives and ongoing projects were discussed to improve the existing defence ties between the two brotherly countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI Jan 16 (TNS): The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Tuesday reached Srilanka on a two-day official visit on receiving an invitation from his counterpart, according to a press release by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). General Bajwa held meetings with the Sri Lankan military leadership including the Chief of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,51],"tags":[589,151],"class_list":["post-44737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-rawalpindi","tag-national","tag-rawalpindi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44739,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44737\/revisions\/44739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}