Madurai, May 31: Tamil Nationalist Movement President Pazha Nedumaran today demanded that the Centre drop the idea of entertaining joint-patrolling of the strategic Palk-Straits by the navies of India and Sri Lanka, describing it as a ploy by the island nation to engage New Delhi in its fight against the Tamil Tigers.
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India is urging Sri Lanka not to buy weapons from China and Pakistan to fight Tamil rebels, New Delhi’s national security advisor said.
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Chennai, May 31: National Security Advisor M.K. Narayanan Thursday said Sri Lanka, facing frequent air attacks from Tamil rebels, should not approach Pakistan or China for weapons though he added that India cannot supply “offensive military equipment”.
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Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels fired mortars and artillery at a village in the north on Thursday, forcing villagers flee the area, defense officials said.
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National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan on Thursday asserted that Sri Lanka should source its military requirements only from India and not China or Pakistan. At the same time he declared that India would not provide any ‘offensive’ weaponry to the embattled island nation.
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NEW DELHI: The Manmohan Singh government, which allowed its policy towards Sri Lanka to be dictated by the preferences and prejudices of its southern allies, has finally woken up to the threat that Colombo’s closeness with China and Pakistan poses to Indian interests.
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Tamil-speaking Muslims from Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu and Malaysia are now re-discovering and re-establishing linguistic, cultural and religious ties which had weakened considerably over the last 400 years. Islamic literature in Tamil has provided the rallying point for the new hands-across-borders movement.
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Objecting strongly to indications from Sri Lanka that it would shop for weapons in China or Pakistan for its war against the Tamil Tigers, National Security Adviser M K Narayanan today said the Island Nation should approach only India whatever its requirements . But India would not provide any offensive weaponry and the assistance would […]

May 31, Colombo: Sri Lanka Ministry of Plantation has launched a program to increase the coconut plantations by 20,000 acres a year.
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May 31, Colombo: The residents of Athawetunawewa village in the Vauniya district, Welioya Defense Colony in Sri Lanka are reportedly fleeing the area due to mortar attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), sources from the area said.
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