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Pakistan asks Sri Lanka training in counterinsurgency operations
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by Irawwan | August 21, 2009 at 02:35 am
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Reports says that Pakistan is seeking military training from Sri Lankan armed forces - According to Sri Lankan Defence officials. The stunning success of Sri Lankan military in tackling rebel LTTE militia invited attention from many governments countries those are facing similar problems at home. Basically Pakistan is looking for tactical and strageical training those Sri Lankan forces used successfully against LTTE rebels.
http://www.karachinews.net/story/533434
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.
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at 05:18 on August 21st, 2009
No country has been able to quell terrorism or insurgencies, totally. Success has been measured at various degrees.
In 1948, the Communist Party of Malaysia started an insurgency, heavily laced with terrorism, in Malaysia.
This insurgency was quelled with the help of the British Government and its forces. Following this, the British Army published a pamphlet (over 300 pages) called Anti Terrorist Operations in Malaysia (ATOM). in the 1950s.
ATOM was the 'Bible' of counter terrorism for all armies fighting insurgents and terrorists. This pamphlet has now become obsolete with the war in Sri Lanka.
The time has now come to publish a new pamphlet to educate those involved in counter terrorism and what better example can one get from, other than Sri Lanka.