Taking Friendship to new heights
NDU Alumni Association's Sri Lankan Chapter:
The Sri Lankan Chapter of Pakistan's National Defense University
Alumni Association was launched in an impressive ceremony conducted by
Defense Advisor of Pakistan to Srilanka and Maldives Colonel Sheryar
Pervaiz Butt in Colombo.
Pakistan's visiting Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, General
Khalid Shameem Wynne, NI (M) was the guest of honour at the event which
was also attended by the High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka
Seema Ilahi Baloch.
Chief of Defence Staff Air Chief Marshal WDRMJ Goonetileke and Army
Commander Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya also attended the event along with
the members of Alumni Association and a large number of prominent
personalities of Sri Lanka.
Several Senior Sri Lankan Officers from Armed forces have been
attending courses at the National Defense University annually since
1993.
Currently the NDU Alumni Association has 26 members, who hold highly
significant assignments in their respective institutions in all the
segments of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
The launch of the Association during the visit of the Chairman Joint
Chiefs of Staff Committee Pakistan to Sri Lanka is of immense importance
as the time tested relationship between the two friendly countries is
transforming on to a different pedestal of association after the war
ended in Sri Lanka.
It is relevant to add that Pakistan is one of those very few
countries which provided all out support to Sri Lankan stance at the
UNHRC Session.
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