Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka, yesterday made his first visit to Jaffna Security Forces Headquarters after the successful completion of military operations to eliminate LTTE terrorism, the Army Headquarters announced yesterday. The Army Commander was received by Commander Security Forces Hea... [More]

Chief of Army Staff in Pakistan General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and his wife hosted a dinner to share the jubilation with Sri Lankan friends on their historic victory against LTTE at the Army House, the official residence of the Commander in Islamabad. Pakistan's Sri Lanka High Commissioner Air Chief... [More]

The last time I traveled by train from Jaffna to Colombo was in July 1975. I was returning after covering for the Observer Lake House, the Northern scene just after Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah’s assassination - Velupillai Prabhakaran’s first terrorist act. Travelling with me on the night mail wa... [More]

The Indian Government was yesterday praised for providing healthcare facilities to the civilians who escaped terrorist atrocities, said Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa, MP during an inspection to the Indian Mobile hospital at Pulmudai. He said Sri Lankans will never forget how India cam... [More]

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and France’s Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner having failed to persuade Sri Lanka for a ceasefire had written an article to The Times of London on April 30 calling Sri Lanka’s role as, ‘Victory without humanity can be no triumph’.   Sri Lanka having ... [More]

China has for the second time this year blocked fresh moves to include Sri Lankan crisis on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) agenda, Foreign Ministry sources told Daily Mirror yesterday.   Inner City Press reported that non-permanent Council members including Austria, Mexico and Co... [More]

JHU leader Ven. Ellawela Medananda Thera yesterday charged that certain extremist forces and politicians with ulterior motives, had taken steps some time back, to forcibly re-settle over sixty thousand civilians in Mullaitivu, in addition to it’s traditional population, in order to make Vanni a futu... [More]

The Security Forces in the final phase of the battle with the LTTE, had speedy progress yesterday with all Army Divisions advancing from South to North direction reached closer to Paranthan – Mullaitivu A-35 road confining the LTTE into a limited area in the North of A-35 road, Military sources told... [More]

The troops advanced further south of Palai and were only short of eight Kilometers to link up with the troops in the South of Elephant Pass and take full control of the A-9 road to open gateways to Jaffna peninsula through the land route after the escalation of violence on August 11, 2006 with the ... [More]

The East could be a strong model to rebuild the North once the fighting ends and the U.S. Government is fully committed to assist the Government in defeating terrorism to ensure it never takes root again in the East.   Addressing at an inauguration ceremony of the Journalism Diploma Program ... [More]

The Security Forces yesterday reached yet another historic victory in the Vanni liberation operation with Task Force I troops capturing the strategically important Paranthan town after cutting off the A-9 road from the North of Paranthan junction by yesterday evening, Army Commander Lt. General Sara... [More]

Intense fighting broke out along the Kilinochchi and Paranthan defences on December 16 as the Security Forces launched their final battle to capture Kilinochchi and Paranthan. The attack continued for the past ten days in the same breath as troops expanded their positions along the Tiger earth bund... [More]

Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretary , Dr. Palitha Kohona yesterday said, they have not been informed of a visit by India' External Minister Pranab Mukherji to Sri Lanka as speculated in the media.   On being asked if there was a possibility that Minister Mukherji could request a ceasefire wi... [More]

The pangs of proximity have its spill over effects on foreign policy. Tamils have been a very strong linguistic group that have depended identity based preferential politics. Their loyalty to language has literally bordered on fanaticism that now several political parties and the Tamil film personal... [More]