Tag: Defence

The two-day secretary-level talks between India and Pakistan concluded here on Tuesday. The Pakistan side was led by Defence Secretary Nargis Sethi and the Indian...

Defence Police arrested two bandits recovering weapons, snatched mobile phone and cash NMC hospital on Friday. As per details, two bandits were trying to flee...

Pakistan on Friday increased its defence budget for the fiscal year 2012-13 by around 10 percent to Rs 545 billion. The budget documents presented in...

Federal Overseas Pakistanis Minister Dr Farooq Sattar has said for sustainable growth, the government will have to announce a welfare budget by cutting defence...

Defying the White House veto threat, the Republican-majority US House of Representatives has passed the $643 billion defence authorization bill for 2013 that among...

US lawmakers passed a sweeping defense spending bill Friday, defying the White House by exceeding a budget cap and refusing to make cuts outlined...

Opposing many provisions of a key defence bill, including conditions imposed on US aid to Pakistan, the Obama administration has threatened to veto it...

Hours after the departure of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani to the UK on an official visit on Tuesday, the Supreme Court released its...

India's tank fleet lacks ammunition, its air defences are "97 percent obsolete" and its elite forces lack essential arms, the country's army chief wrote...

The Indian Defence Ministry has given a clean chit to the Indian Army chief-designate, Lt General Bikram Singh, who was involved in a fake...

Japan on Friday readied its missile defence systems to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it threatens the country, as the UN chief...

Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has said the government would strengthen the conventional and strategic capabilities of the armed forces to make the defence...

India on Friday boosted military spending by 17 percent to $40 billion for the coming year as it seeks to counter China’s rapid military...

India on Friday boosted military spending by 17 percent to $40 billion for the coming year as it seeks to counter China's rapid military...

Expressing doubts over the statement of a police constable who claimed to present multiple evidence to Lahore for chemical examination, the defence lawyers on...

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani said on Monday that the allocation for defence was only 18 percent of the total national...

Iran plans to more than double military spending over the coming 12 months, according to an annual budget proposal by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented...