A top Pakistan envoy has said on Monday that outsiders, including India, should not meddle with Sri Lanka’s internal conflict, local media reports here said.
“Sri Lanka should be allowed to solve its own problems, and others, whether it be Pakistan, India or Norway should not meddle,” Pakistan High Commissioner, Shahzad A  Chaudhry has been quoted as saying while addressing a workshop in Colombo.
Internal matters
“No outsider can solve internal matters of Sri Lanka,” the Pakistani envoy said at the independent Sri Lanka Press Institute in Colombo.
His remarks came barely a month after National Defence Advisor M K Narayanan said that Sri Lanka should not buy weapons form Pakistan and China as India was prepared to supply defensive weapons to neutralise the threat from the LTTE rebels.
Referring to the current plight of Sri Lanka’s international relations, Mr Chaudhry said the nation was not been given its rightful place in the world.
Rightful place
“Sri Lanka should fight for its rightful place in the world by resolving the ongoing conflict,” the Pakistan High Commission has reportedly said.
It was only a couple of weeks ago that Sri Lankan   President in an interview with an international television channel expressed his desire that India should play “an active role” in resolving the bloody ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka.
Pakistan is one of the major arms suppliers to Sri Lanka.