{"id":50932,"date":"2016-01-10T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=50932"},"modified":"2016-01-10T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:22:34","slug":"lanka-drops-plan-to-buy-fighters-from-pak-after-indian-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/10\/lanka-drops-plan-to-buy-fighters-from-pak-after-indian-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"Lanka drops plan to buy fighters from Pak after Indian objects?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-7 col-sm-8 col-xs-12\">\n<div id=\"newsItemComplete\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adederana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"newsDateStamp\">\n<div class=\"fb-like fb_iframe_widget\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/adaderana\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"450\" data-show-faces=\"true\">Stiff opposition from India has forced Sri Lanka to drop plans, at least for now, to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft from Pakistan, the New Indian Express reported.<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsContent\">\n<p>The Sunday Express has learnt that New Delhi shot off a diplomatic missive a few weeks ago to Colombo on why it should not buy the JF-17 Thunder, including a negative technical assessment of the aircraft. It was also pointed out that the country\u2019s defence requirements did not need fighters.<\/p>\n<p>While questions were raised in Sri Lanka too about the reported $400-million deal, India\u2019s forceful opposition, conveyed through a non-paper, was one of the likely reasons that made Sri Lanka drop the plan for now.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani media were reporting that the deal for JF-17s would be signed during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif\u2019s three-day visit to Colombo which ended Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its own financial crunch, Pakistan was also said to be ready to extend a line of credit to Sri Lanka for the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Sharif and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the Defence Minister, signed agreements under eight heads in Colombo, but the sale of aircraft was not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adederana Stiff opposition from India has forced Sri Lanka to drop plans, at least for now, to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft from Pakistan, the New Indian Express reported. The Sunday Express has learnt that New Delhi shot off a diplomatic missive a few weeks ago to Colombo on why it should not buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}