Tag: Coas

COAS visits Abbottabad

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani visited Abbottabad on Thursday in connection with Commanding Officers’ Conference of the Frontier Force Regiment....

Backtracking

Civilian, assert thyself. Or not. Gilani has gone back on his stand that the military leadership had violated the constitution and rules of business by...

U-turn for the better

Conciliation, not confrontation After several rounds of near head-on collisions with military institutions, the PPP-led government seems to have finally settled down for its pre-Memogate...

Of matters past

Bygones be not bygones A majority of readers and viewers have a gripe with us analysts who write in the press and speak on the...

Of Bonapartists

India has some too The issue of the two army chiefs, in India and Pakistan, still dominate the discussions. Chief of Army Staff V K...

PM, COAS, ISI chief discuss Pak-US ties, security

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani and Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General Ahmad Shuja Pasha discussed issues of NATO supply,...

Another petition

Of tensions and extensions The Supreme Court’s direction to the government to submit a written assurance within two weeks that it has no intention of...

Season of justice

But does it appear to be the same? This is Pakistan’s season of justice. And whatever else one may say about the ongoing cat and...

Chain of command

Apropos to your news item (14 Jan) that states that the former defence secretary will challenge his sacking. It is so strange that when...

COAS, ISI DG’s stance vindicated in SC verdict

Announcing its detailed judgement on the maintainability of petitions filed by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) President Nawaz Sharif and others seeking a probe into...

Petition seeks to restrain president, PM from removing COAS, ISI DG

A petition was filed in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday to restrain President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani...

Myanmar air chief calls on COAS

Myanmar Air Force Commander-in-Chief Lieutenant General Myat Hein called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani at the General Headquarters on...

Kayani spoke to me before releasing statement: Gilani

In a bid to melt the ice, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez...

Pervez MacArthur?

Waiting for the (in)glorious comeback It has been more than three years since Musharraf left the country, but it’s on the announcement of his return...

Gilani eats his own words yet again

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani made a startling revelation on Monday by contradicting his own statement as, in an interview with a Chinese newspaper,...

Defying logic

A long haul to March Going by the prime minister’s somersaults in the last few days, one can only surmise that there “something is rotten...

PM declines removal of COAS, ISI DG

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday said that those opportunists who are talking about removal of Army Chief and ISI DG are living...