Tag: Defence

ISLAMABAD - Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Director General Major General Athar Abbas told a private TV channel on Sunday that the usage of funds in civilian departments should be streamlined instead of criticising the defence budget.
Abbas said that misleading propaganda was being spread under well-planned conspiracies about the expenses of the army. The conspirators were saying that the defence funds could be used for the prosperity of the country, he said.
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ISLAMABAD - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is likely to extend its contract with M/S Agility, vendor of Pakistan Customs Computerised System (PACCS), the automated customs clearance software. The software has previously been declared a 'security risk' both by the office of Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) and the FBR itself.
"The FBR has almost decided to extend the contract with M/S Agility and a notification in this regard will be issued within a few days," an official

ABU DHABI - Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum inaugurated the 10th International Defence Exhibition and Conference, IDEX 2011, on Sunday.
General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of Abu Dhabi, was also present. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said Abu Dhabi's IDEX was gaining prominence and wider acclaim among the countries and companies producing weapons and defence equipments, as the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the counsels for Bahria Town to produce till February 28 the affidavits of compromise reached between the accused of drag car race and the legal heirs of the five victims.
A four-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo moto case pertaining to the killing of five persons during an

KARACHI - The chief engineer of the Cantonment Board Clifton (CBC) assured the Cantonment Board president at a meeting held at the CBC office on Wednesday that the work on new pipelines in Defence would be completed in the next two months. Chief Engineer Niaz Hussain told the CBC President 5 Corps Brigadier Anis Ahmed that the work is being carried out in a professional manner.
CBC Chief Executive Officer Muhammad Hayat Mahar, Board Member Aziz Suharwardi, Lt Col Zafar Iqbal, Lt

LAHORE - Valuables worth Rs 1.5 million were reduced to ashes when a fire erupted in a house located in Defence Police Station precincts on Sunday. According to details, the fire erupted due to short-circuit in Abdul Majeed's house located in 155 S-Block Defence Housing Authority (DHA) close to the residence of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif (240-S) due to which appliances, furniture and valuables were reduced to ashes but no casualties were reported.
According to police,

ISLAMABAD - Secretary Defence Lt General (retd) Syed Athar Ali Khan on Thursday failed to tell the status of DHA City Lahore to the Public Accounts Committee.
During PAC meeting, when Riaz Fitana asked the secretary defence to clear the position of DHA City Lahore, secretary defence said, "Either DHA City Lahore is the part of Defence Housing Authority or it is a private entity and if it has been launched by a private company then why is the name 'DHA' being used?"
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LAHORE - On the 5th of January, Haji Maqbool Ahmad (63), of Engineers Town, was reading a newspaper on his terrace when a stray bullet hit him in the back and he died instantly. His autopsy report confirmed that the bullet removed from his body matched other stray bullets recovered from the area, bullets that residents allege originate at the Army Firing Range, about 2.5 kms from Haji Maqbool's house.
A Pakistan Today investigation into the incident reveals that residents of

BEIJING - US attempts to shore up rocky military relations with Beijing were overshadowed Tuesday by a test flight of China's stealth fighter jet, reflecting the growing rivalry between the two powers. Chinese state media carried photos purporting to show the maiden flight of the J-20 warplane just as US Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with President Hu Jintao -- who heads to Washington next week -- and other officials.
The timing of the flight appeared to be a snub to

LAHORE - Fire broke out in 'Hot n spicy' restaurant's kitchen in the police jurisdiction of the Defense D block in the late night hours on Saturday. No injures were reported.
Per details, fire erupted in the kitchen because of short circuit and engulfed the whole kitchen and some area of the first floor. Hotel management informed Rescue 1122 who rushed to the scene immediately and extinguished it in 15 minutes. Hotel management told Pakistan Today that no injures had been

ISLAMABAD - A four-member larger bench of the Supreme Court on Monday directed S M Zafar, counsel for one of the PCO judges, to conclude his arguments by today (Tuesday).
The bench, comprising Justice Mahmood Akhtar Shahid Siddiqui, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Parvez, was hearing contempt of court cases against the superior courts' judges who had taken oath under the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) in defiance of a seven-judge

LAHORE - A retired colonel was kidnapped by some unidentified men in Defence A police precincts on Saturday. According to the police, Col (r) Manzoor retired from the army three years back and was serving in DHA.
His wife called the police and narrated that Manzoor left the house to drop his friend Col (r) Jamil at his residence in X block of Defence housing society and during his return he called her and told that he was coming back after buying breakfast from a local market.

LAGOS - West African regional military chiefs have set in motion plans to oust Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo if negotiations fail, a Nigerian defence spokesman said Friday.
The decision was reached at a meeting in Abuja of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) attended by military chiefs from Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Senegal, Togo, Niger and Nigeria. "The committee of chiefs of defence staff met on Tuesday and Wednesday to put machinery

ABU DHABI: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is meeting on Thursday with Emirati leaders on Iran's nuclear programme and Al Qaeda threat in Yemen, as WikiLeaks exposed Gulf Arab fears of the Islamic republic. Gates was to meet the deputy commander of the United Arab Emirates armed forces, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed al-Nahayan.
Their talks will touch on military cooperation and "challenges that we are working together to try to solve," press secretary Geoff

ISLAMABAD: The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has refused to brief the National Assembly's Standing Committee on Defence on the US' reported intention to expand drone attacks to Quetta and the latest position of the war against terrorism, a source told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Directing the Ministry of Defence to organise a special briefing for committee members at the ISI Headquarters, the committee in its recent meeting had asked the ISI director general (DG) to give a

KARACHI: Defence cogent power plant is not functioning for six months due to compressor faults and the Defence Cogent Ltd (DCL) management, major share holder of the project, is not willing to repair it, sources said on Monday.
The plant is the only steam power plant of the city that can produce 84 megawatts but is switched off because the DCL management claiming scarcity of funds required for plant reparation, sources told Pakistan Today.
The plant generates electricity as

TOKYO: Japan will identify North Korea as a threat and call China's military activities a concern in a review of its defence policy that will include plans to beef up its ability to cope with Beijing's rise, a newspaper reported on Monday.
The update of the National Defence Programme Guideline, the first since 2004, is expected this month as Japan confronts China's military build-up and North Korea's deadly shelling of a South Korean island. The review will be the first since