Pakistan asked Sri Lanka for PM’s address to its parliament
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February 19, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran’s maiden Sri Lanka visit will start on Feb 22, and the host country has released details of his two-day engagements in Colombo.
During the visit, he will meet Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and attend an investors conference. Imran Khan’s speech at the Sri Lankan parliament had been included in PM s itinerary on the Pakistan government s request. However, an information coming from Colombo has also been confirmed in Islamabad that his address to the Sri Lankan parliament has been cancelled. Thus his name could not be included in Pakistani heads of governments who got an opportunity to speak to the Sri Lankan parliament. Earlier, General Muhammad Ayub Khan in 1963 and Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1975 had addressed the Sri Lankan parliament. Since then, no Pakistani ruler got an opportunity to speak in
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