Sri Lanka President calls Pakistan PM, extends sympathy over flood devastation

 

With floods having wreaked havoc across the country, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday received a telephone call from President of Sri Lanka Ranil Wickremesinghe, a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said. 

According to the statement, Wickremesinghe offered sympathies on the widespread devastation caused by the recent floods in Pakistan and condoled with Prime Minister Sharif on the loss of lives. 

PM Shehbaz thanked the Sri Lankan president for his compassion and expression of support in these testing times and briefed him on the large-scale destruction caused across Pakistan by unprecedented rainfall resulting in floods and landslides. 

He also apprised President Wickremesinghe of the government’s well-coordinated humanitarian response including the establishment of a relief fund in which people in Pakistan and overseas can donate to the flood relief efforts.