{"id":116239,"date":"2025-11-21T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=116239"},"modified":"2025-11-22T00:19:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:19:02","slug":"pakistan-sri-lanka-reaffirm-commitment-to-deepen-fraternal-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/116239\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan, Sri Lanka Reaffirm Commitment to Deepen Fraternal Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brussels (National Times) Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met with Sri Lanka\u2019s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment, Arun Hemachandra, on 21 November 2025 on the sidelines of the 4th EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels.<br>Both sides emphasized the importance of strengthening their longstanding fraternal relations through high-level exchanges and agreed on the need to build on the deep goodwill between Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The ministers discussed expanding cooperation across a wide range of sectors, including trade and investment, tourism, culture, education, defence, agriculture, and human resource development.<br>They also reaffirmed their commitment to maintaining close collaboration, both bilaterally and within multilateral fora, to further advance shared interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deputy Prime Minister\/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIshaqDar50?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MIshaqDar50<\/a> met with the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment of Sri Lanka, Arun Hemachandra <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arunhema19?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@arunhema19<\/a>, on 21 November 2025, on the sidelines of 4th EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum being\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhGKpc5Ezq\">pic.twitter.com\/AhGKpc5Ezq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ministry of Foreign Affairs &#8211; Pakistan (@ForeignOfficePk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForeignOfficePk\/status\/1991799720826876319?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels (National Times) Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met with Sri Lanka\u2019s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment, Arun Hemachandra, on 21 November 2025 on the sidelines of the 4th EU Indo-Pacific Ministerial Forum in Brussels.Both sides emphasized the importance of strengthening their longstanding fraternal relations through high-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - 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