Islamabad: President Asif Ali Zardari, on behalf of the government and the people of Pakistan, has extended his warm felicitations to his Sri Lankan counterpart Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the government, and the people of Sri Lanka on the occasion of the country's 78th Independence Day.

According to Radio Pakistan, in a message, he said Pakistan and Sri Lanka have a time-tested friendship and both countries have stood together through thick and thin.