Tag: Combat

Police trained to combat terrorism

GUJRANWALA: Gujranwala Corps Commander Lt-Gen Raheel Sharif has emphasised the importance of specialised training to combat the menace of terrorism. He stated this while addressing a passing-out parade of 6th batch of the 98 Punjab police personnel who were imparted anti-terrorism training by Pakistan Army at Sialkot Cantt. According to an ISPR handout, the corps commander was confident of the capabilities of the trained personnel and hoped the special anti-terrorism training imparted

LH CJ seeks lawyers’ help to combat corruption

LAHORE - Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry urged bar associations and lawyers to cooperate in eradication of bribery and corruption from courts and government departments with the same passion that was seen during the lawyers' movement for the restoration of independent judiciary. CJ Ijaz Chaudhry, while talking to a delegation of Tax Bar Association (TBA) Lahore, said, "If lawyers start pointing out corrupt elements with a national mission, they can root out the

Danish camera enters heart of Afghan combat

PARIS - Afghan war film "Armadillo" follows young Danish soldiers deploying against the Taliban for the first time, intimately recording their confrontation with a complicated conflict, the battles, the waiting, the emotions.
It is a film that director Janus Metz said "very consciously tried to break with the sort of news footage realism of Afghanistan to get behind the scenes" of a war that this band of soldiers sees as their generation's Vietnam.
It blurs the boundaries of