The United Kingdom has decided to double the number of unmanned aircrafts flying combat and surveillance operations in Afghanistan, the Guardian reported on Tuesday. In a new squadron of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), five Reaper drones will be sent to Afghanistan and be in operation within six weeks, with control coming, for the first time, […]
Oct 23 2012 | Posted in
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Director General Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Captain Nadeem Yousafzai has said that neither there was any technical fault in the Bhoja Airline plane that crashed Friday near Rawalpindi nor the weather warning was too much high to raise the aerial limits. While addressing a news conference on Saturday, he said the last contact was made […]
A passenger jet with 127 people on board crashed Friday as it was landing at an airport near Islamabad, officials said. Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar told media the Bhoja Air jet crashed Friday, just a few kilometers (miles) away from the airport in Islamabad. He says the aircraft was traveling from the country’s largest […]
India and Pakistan exchange nuclear sites information Pakistan and India Sunday exchanged lists of their respective nuclear installations and facilities as well as lists of prisoners in each other’s custody, as required under bilateral agreements between the two South Asian nuclear neighbours. Senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Indian High Commission exchanged […]
India urges Pakistan to sign Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) With Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal a matter of growing global concern, India has pressed Pakistan to enunciate its nuclear doctrine and asked it to join global efforts for concluding the Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT). At the expert-level talks in Islamabad earlier this week on nuclear […]
Terror war cash rewards stuns parliamentary panel The Parliamentary Committee on National Security wondered over what Pakistan was getting from the United States (US) and NATO/ISAF against its services and sacrifices in war on terror. A member of the parliamentary body briefed the media saying Pakistan is getting minimum financial benefits against its strategic support […]
Dec 28 2011 | Posted in
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