{"id":1418,"date":"2026-02-09T17:12:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:12:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T17:12:56","slug":"in-phone-call-with-pm-sri-lanka-president-urges-pakistan-to-play-t20-world-cup-clash-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"In phone call with PM, Sri Lanka president urges Pakistan to play T20 World Cup clash against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/02\/0921594220cb6da.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday urged Pakistan to play its T20 World Cup clash against India.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he made the remarks during a phone call with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan fully supported the Sri Lankan cricket during the terrorism in Sri Lanka,\u201d he was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPakistan gave priority to its long-standing relations with Sri Lanka above all else, and the Pakistani cricket team continued to tour the country to play cricket despite terrorism,\u201d Dissanayake said.<\/p>\n<p>The premier welcomed the Sri Lankan president\u2019s sentiments and noted how Colombo also stood with Islamabad during difficult times and kept cricket going in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecently, the Sri Lankan team took an unforgettable step for the Pakistani nation and cricket fans by not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1954722\">cancelling the tour of Pakistan<\/a>,\u201d PM Shehbaz was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, PM Shehbaz said he would inform the Sri Lankan president about a \u201cfinal decision\u201d regarding the Pak-India match after consultations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>More to follow<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1972086\/in-phone-call-with-pm-sri-lanka-president-urges-pakistan-to-play-t20-world-cup-clash-against-india\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Monday urged Pakistan to play its T20 World Cup clash against India. According to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}