evidence: Sri Lanka refutes reports on gifting elephants to Pakistan after death of one at Karachi Zoo Dismissing the media reports that Sri Lanka would gift two elephants to Pakistan, the Sri Lankan High Commission in Islamabad took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that no such request has been made so far. Sri Lanka on Tuesday strongly rebutted media reports about gifting two elephants to Pakistan's Karachi and Lahore zoos after the tragic death of an elephant at the zoological gardens here.