By IANS,
Islamabad : Pakistan has sought training in counter-insurgency operations from Sri Lanka following the island nation’s decisive victory against the Tamil Tiger rebels, says a top commander.
Apart from Pakistan, several other countries had also sought information about the strategy and tactics adopted by the Sri Lankan armed forces to decimate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in just three years of intense fighting, Dawn Friday quoted Sri Lankan Army chief Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya as telling reporters in Colombo.
“Pakistan helped Sri Lanka fight the LTTE by supplying arms when other countries had put an embargo on arms sales to the country,” the newspaper added.
Admiral (retd) Wasantha Karannagoda, a former Sri Lankan Navy chief and currently the National Security Adviser, had said at an international naval seminar in Britain that the strategies and tactics adopted by the Sri Lankan Navy to tackle the LTTE’s naval arm could be of use to other navies.
This was because in the conflicts of the future, navies would be facing not battleships and destroyers but small and fast boats of non-state rogue navies which would be engaged in insurgencies, piracies and trafficking of various kinds, Karannagoda contended.