Article Archive for April 2011
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ISLAMABAD, April 29 (Xinhua) — Pakistan on Friday successfully conducted flight test of indigenously developed air launched cruise missile, which “can deliver nuclear and conventional warheads with great pin point accuracy,” the …
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Shaheen is a born flier high and above the rest, to dive and strike is its favourite sport.
By S. M. Hali
In an era of sophistication and state-of-the-art technology, Indian Air Force (IAF), which enjoyed an …
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Islamabad has predictably denied a report in Wednesday’s editions of the ‘Wall Street Journal’ that Pakistan is trying to wean Afghanistan away from the United States and draw it into China’s orbit. …
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By Asif Haroon Raja
Pakistan-Afghanistan relations have remained frosty ever since Pakistan came into being. King Zahir Shah, Dawood, Taraqi, Hafiz Amin, Dr Najibullah and Babrak Karmal remained friendly to former Soviet Union …
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ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau has unofficially conveyed its apprehensions to some leading security agencies of the country that certain USAID officials, apparently monitoring and executing development work in the tribal areas …
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The appointment of Gen. David H. Petraeus as director of the Central Intelligence Agency puts him more squarely than ever in conflict with Pakistan, whose military leadership does not regard him as …
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ISLAMABAD: As ties between Washington and Islamabad reach one of their lowest points in over a decade, Pakistan’s top diplomat is on a trip to Beijing from Thursday (today) to shore up cooperation …
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SRINAGAR: A soldier in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire on his own unit, killing four fellow soldiers and wounding one other, an army spokesman said.
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By Sajjad Shaukat
While exposing India’s ambitious defence policy, Washington-based Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) has disclosed in its report of April 2011 that India has planned “to spend an estimated …
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Pakistan has successfully conducted the first flight test of the newly developed Short Range Surface to Surface Multi Tube Ballistic Missile Hatf IX (Nasr), much to the chagrin of Indian defence planners, as is evident …
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Crumbling unity among militants could provide the Pakistan army an opening to conduct a limited offensive against a particularly vicious Taliban group in a strategic tribal region, according to analysts and a …
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PESHAWAR: Two Pakistani personnel were wounded when Afghan and Nato forces attacked the Pakistani border check post in South Waziristan’s Angoor Adda area on Wednesday, Dawn News reported.
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By Brig Asif Haroon Raja
PM Gilani accompanied by Gen Kayani visited Kabul at a time when a visible thaw has occurred in Pak-Afghan relations. Karzai has repeatedly expressed his keenness to remove misgivings …
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by Matthew Rosenberg
Pakistan is lobbying Afghanistan’s president against building a long-term strategic partnership with the U.S., urging him instead to look to Pakistan—and its Chinese ally—for help in striking a peace deal with the Taliban …
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For Pakistan, the costs of this subservience to the US and surrender of national sovereignty has proven extremely costly and far outweighs any short term gains that may have been made.
By Imran …
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Imran Khan join Maher Bukhari to discuss Electricity, Drone Attacks & Politics.
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US media launches a campaign to harass and stigmatize legitimate Pakistani civilian nuclear projects. No word on how US government allowed named Indian defense-related companies to be eligible to trade in militarized …
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By Sajjad Shaukat
During his trip to Islamabad on April 20 this year, while praising Pakistan’s military operations against the militants, US Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen blamed in …
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RAWALPINDI: A spokesman of Pakistan’s military, on Monday, denied a British newspaper’s report that Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has been communicating with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh …
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Nearly 500 inmates of Kandahar prison disappear down 1,000ft tunnel – just in time for ‘fighting season’
Kandahar’s prison may not be Stalag Luft III but in terms of ingenuity, organisation and sheer cunning the …
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KARACHI: The chief of banned organisation Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) Hafiz Muhammad Saeed has challenged India to prove his organisation’s link to the Mumbai attacks, claiming India would never be able to substantiate this allegation.
Speaking to DawnNews, …
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By Raja Mujtabah
A few months ago a distinguished Think Tank; the Carnegie Endowment published a well researched report regarding the current situation in Afghanistan. The report entitled, “The Afghanistan at the Breaking Point …
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By Bushra Tarrar
The unity of Muslims the world over is the need of the hour, not for any aggressive design but for own survival, salvation, growth and development. Only unity can bring them …
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A few commentators in the Pakistani media are going against the national consensus and are supporting United States’ war in Pakistan and the murder of innocent Pakistanis.
By Akbar S. Babar
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Pakistan …




