Colombo: Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Monday met the new Sri Lankan leadership, including President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and discussed issues of trade, investment and tourism to further deepen the bilateral relations.
Qureshi arrived in Colombo on Sunday night on a two-day official visit to Sri Lanka to meet the country’s newly-elected leadership and convey to it a felicitation message of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
According to the Pakistan Foreign Office, Qureshi also handed over a letter from President Arif Alvi to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and invited him to pay a visit to Islamabad at his earliest convenience.
“FM calls on the President of Sri Lanka. Bilateral issues, trade, investment and people to people contacts discussed. FM handed over a letter from the President to President of Sri Lanka and invited him to visit Pakistan at his earliest convenience,” Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson Muhammad Faisal tweeted. The president also requested the government of Pakistan to help Sri Lanka in the fight against Islamic extremism, a presidential release said. Qureshi’s Colombo visit came a day after President Gotabaya Rajapa-ksa returned from New Delhi, where he was on his first overseas trip since assuming office last month. (PTI)
