Islamabad: Ahead of its key talks with India on the Siachen issue, Pakistan has claimed that the biggest hurdle in resolving the military standoff on the world's highest battlefield are the armies of the two countries. Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, who was the Defence Minister till yesterday and has now been given the water and power portfolio in a minor Cabinet reshuffle, said India and Pakistan both stand to benefit from...
01:10 PM, Jun 03, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday increased the defence allocation in its fiscal 2012-13 budget to Rs 545 billion (about $5.82 billion), marking an increase of 10 per cent over the outlay for the current fiscal. The allocation for the defence services amounted to 18.4 per cent of the federal budget of Rs 2,960 billion for fiscal 2012-13. Further details, including allocations for the three services and weapons acquisition programmes, were not...
12:05 AM, Jun 02, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistani cricketer Umar Gul's house in Peshawar was raided by the Pakistan Army commandos on Tuesday. Reports say his brother Meraj was arrested for allegedly providing shelter to his uncle Haji Daly, who is believed to be an active member of the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Islam. Two others were also arrested, said a report in The Express Tribune. Reports say Daly was injured in an operation in Bara and had...
12:23 PM, May 30, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan Army on May 29 declared all the 139 soldiers as dead who were buried alive by an avalanche at a high-altitude camp in the Siachen sector, proclaiming them as "shuhada" (martyrs). A military statement declaring them dead came days after rescuers recovered three bodies from the remote glacier where a huge avalanche buried them in early hours of April 7. The military said that the decision to proclaim...
01:07 PM, May 29, 2012
Islamabad: Nearly 50 days after an avalanche slammed into a high-altitude Pakistan Army camp in the Siachen sector near Indian border, search teams have found the body of one of the 139 people who were buried under dozens of feet of snow in the world's highest battleground. The body was identified as that of Mohammad Hussain, one of the 128 soldiers from the Northern Light Infantry who were buried by...
12:37 PM, May 27, 2012
Lahore: A Pakistan Army helicopter with two personnel on board crashed into the Chenab River in Punjab province on Wednesday while on a routine flight, officials said. A pilot and a trainee pilot were aboard the helicopter when it came down at a spot located 100 km from Lahore. Officials said that the helicopter was on a routine flight from a base in Gujranwala when it lost contact with the...
04:29 PM, May 23, 2012
Islamabad: India and Pakistan will hold their next round of talks on the military standoff on Siachen glacier in Islamabad during June 11-12 against the backdrop of renewed calls from the Pakistani civil and military leadership for the demilitarisation of the world's highest battlefield. "Pakistan and India will hold talks on the Siachen issue on June 11-12 at Islamabad," Foreign Office spokesman Moazzam Khan said in a brief statement on...
10:48 PM, May 10, 2012
Islamabad: Taliban beheads 13 Pakistani soldiers Taliban fighters have killed 14 Pakistani soldiers in a key militant sanctuary along the Afghan border, beheading all but one of them and hanging two of the heads from wooden poles in the centre of town, officials say. The killings in Miran Shah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, highlight the dilemma facing the military in dealing with an area used...
10:12 AM, May 08, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's powerful Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has waded into a standoff between the government and judiciary, saying the country's development and welfare depend on state institutions functioning within their constitutional limits. The country's Constitution has "clearly defined the responsibilities and functions of national institutions" and it is incumbent on them "to perform their duties within constitutional limits", he said while delivering an address at an event marking...
10:18 AM, May 01, 2012
Lahore: President Asif Ali Zardari has ruled out any unilateral withdrawal of Pakistani soldiers from Siachen, saying troops can be called back from the Himalayan glacier only if India agrees to do the same. "The withdrawal of Pakistani troops is possible provided India also agrees. It will not be a unilateral decision," he said while addressing a convention of workers of his Pakistan People's Party in Okara district, 100 km...
01:06 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Wednesday said all issues between India and Pakistan should be resolved to ensure "peaceful co-existence" which would allow the two countries to focus on development and the welfare of the people. In his first public remarks on the peace process that was resumed by New Delhi and Islamabad in 2011, the powerful army chief said, "All issues should be resolved and...
09:28 PM, Apr 18, 2012
The Pakistani government says that the exact number of casualties is not known yet and that rescue and relief operations are on. ...
01:22 PM, Apr 07, 2012
Islamabad: An avalanche trapped over 100 Pakistani soldiers near the Siachen glacier on the border with India on Saturday, the Army spokesman said. Several Pakistani television channels reported earlier that about 150 soldiers were trapped. "At six o'clock this morning this avalanche hit a (military) headquarters. Over 100 soldiers and personnel are trapped," said the spokesman, Major-General Athar Abbas, adding that rescue teams were headed to the scene. He said...
11:39 AM, Apr 07, 2012
London: Pakistan Army Chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Tuesday met top British officials and discussed defence issues of mutual interest, including bilateral military cooperation and the current situation in war-torn Afghanistan. Kayani, who arrived in London on Monday on an official visit, held meetings with senior civil and military leaders, including Minister of State for Defence Nick Harvey, National Security Advisor Kim Darroch, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan...
07:52 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Dubai: Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Pakistanis to revolt against their government and military in a video posted on the Internet on Friday, US monitors said. In a 10-minute speech uploaded to jihadist forums, Zawahiri argued that the Pakistani authorities only represented US interests, according to a statement from SITE Intelligence Group. Zawahiri, shown standing in front of a green curtain, urged Pakistanis to follow the example of...
04:51 PM, Mar 17, 2012
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