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COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s initial successes in curbing COVID-19 spread a year ago are now a distant memory. The Sri Lankan government hoped to vaccinate at least 60 percent of its adult population by the end of the year. Like most other…
پاکستان سری لنکا تعلقات کا جائزہ
فروری ۲۰۲۱ میں عمران خان نے بطور وزیراعظم پاکستان سری لنکا کا پہلا دورہ کیا۔ کولمبو کا یہ دو روزہ دورہ جس دوران عمران خان اور سری لنکا کے وزیراعظم مہندا راجاپکسے نے مختلف تزویراتی شعبوں میں تعاون پر تبادلہ…
Reviewing Pakistan-Sri Lanka Relations
Last month, Imran Khan made his first visit to Sri Lanka as Pakistan’s Prime Minister. The two-day visit to Colombo, during which Imran Khan and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa discussed cooperation across a variety of strategic areas, signifies…
Chinese Financing in South Asia: The Story of Sri Lanka
South Asian Voices recently published a series on Chinese financing in the South Asian region discussing the perspectives of three countries: Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan. This article contributes an important but missing perspective—that of Sri Lanka, which is an often-cited…
Jaishankar’s New Year Visit to Colombo: An Impetus to Indo-Lankan Relations
Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar recently returned from a three-day visit to Colombo between January 5-7, his first foreign official visit of 2021. His visit is understood to be one of India’s significant foreign policy moves towards the…
Sri Lanka 2020 Year in Review: The Impact of COVID-19
Following considerable instability during the two preceding years, highlighted by the October 2018 Constitutional Crisis and the 2019 Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, 2020 was expected to provide much needed political stability to Sri Lanka. Following President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decisive victory…