Colombo, Sri Lanka High Commissioner Mohan Vijay Vikrama on Monday assured Pakistan that the Sialkot lynching incident will not impact the bilateral relations.
"Pakistan and Sri Lanka are friends and will remain friends. I assure you that this incident will not affect our relations," Vikrama said.
He also thanked Pakistani people for their sympathies toward the incident.
He further said, "I am sure that the government of Pakistan will take steps to ensure that the family of Priyanta Deyawanda Kumar gets justice. This is a murder.
The Sri Lankan government is sure that it has nothing to do with Pakistan and Sri Lanka. We have seen that Pakistan has taken immediate action."
He, however, said, Sri Lanka and Pakistan do not "claim" to be friends.
Pakistan and Sri Lanka have social, defence, and commerce ties, and this incident will not impact the existing relationship," he said.
On Monday, the mortal remains of Sialkot lynching victim, Priyantha Kumara, have been sent to Sri Lanka from Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport.
According to a report by Dawn, Kumara's body was brought to the airport in an ambulance where Punjab Minister for Minority Affairs Ejaz Alam Augustine received it and dispatched it via a Sri Lankan Airlines flight with state honours.
The incident took place on Wazirabad Road in Sialkot on Friday. Priyantha Kumara was a senior manager at a leading Sialkot factory that manufactures and exports sports products.
A frenzied mob in Sialkot in Pakistan tortured a Sri Lankan factory manager to death and then burnt his body in public allegedly over allegations of blasphemy.
According to Dawn, leaders of Muslim, Christian, Hindu and Sikh communities on Sunday declared the Sialkot mob lynching as ‘barbaric and brutal’.
While apologising to the people of Sri Lanka on behalf of the Pakistan, they demanded the Chief Justice of Pakistan to ensure a speedy trial of the culprits for an early justice.