Senator Farhatullah Babar speaking on a point of order in the Senate on Wednesday drew attention to the reports that a serving military office was being appointed as director general military lands and cantonments department and called for rejecting the summary reportedly moved to safeguard the interests of the federal government as the owner of […]
Pakistan military said Wednesday that Indian troops resorted to unprovoked firing into its areas along the Line of Control, which divides the two countries in the disputed Kashmir region. Military officials said, “The Indian troops resorted to unprovoked small arms and artillery firing at Line of Control in Battal and Neza Pir sectors at […]
The army on Friday rejected as baseless a recent report by the Amnesty International that journalists in the country are under “serious threat” from state security forces, some political parties and religious militant groups. The Amnesty report says that several journalists claimed to have been threatened for reporting on the military, political parties or […]
Pakistani Taliban Friday claimed responsibility for attack on the army and police near Peshawar, which killed at least two military personnel. Seven, including three policemen, were injured when militants ambushed their vehicles late Thursday. Heavily armed militants attacked a police Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) which was on a routine patrol on Kohat Road […]
The military army said Sunday that three soldiers and 22 militants were killed in clashes in a Khyber agency and Balochistan province. The military said the security forces captured two string hideouts of the militants in the mountainous Tirah Valley in Khyber tribal region late Saturday. “In a successful operation security forces last night […]
Hundreds of troops were deployed in several sensitive areas of Karachi on Friday as part of Pakistan Army plan to deploy nearly 70‚000 troops for election-related duties. The Election Commission of Pakistan had sought army’s help in aid of the authorities to ensure peaceful and smooth polling on May 11. Army sources said […]
Pakistan Army has started deployment of 70‚000 troops for election-related duties that include security and maintenance peace and order, the military spokesman said Thursday. Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa told a press conference in Rawalpindi that the armed forces have been called upon to act in aid of the civil power under constitutional provision. […]
Pakistan army said Wednesday that rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-hit areas of Balochistan province are in progress. An earthquake, measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, Tuesday hit Mashkeel area in Balochistan, bordering Iran, and killed at least 34 people and injured 80 more. Correspondents in the region said that many houses […]
Pakistan on Sunday rejected U.S. media reports that the country has struck a deal with the CIA over a secret drone campaign in the tribal regions. The New York Times has reported that Pakistan and the United States had signed the deal in 2004 and a U.S. spy aircraft, in its first strike had […]
Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, has reiterated his call for quitting the U.S.-led war saying there is no military solution to the violent extremism. When asked about impression that he is a supporter of the Taliban, Khan told radio Pakistan in an interview that he has never supported the Taliban. “I was opposing […]
Army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Monday urged the top commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan to help Pakistan check cross-border attacks launched from inside Afghanistan, the military said. General Kayani and General Joseph F. Dunford, Commander International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), met in the garrison city of Rawalpindi and discussed a variety […]
The army on Friday assured the Election Commission its complete support in peacefully holding the upcoming parliamentary polls, the military said. The assurance comes at a time when the recent series of deadly bomb attacks in parts of the had raised concerns over peaceful elections, likely to take place in May. Ministers say the […]