Tag: Defence

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz spokesman Siddiqul Farooq on Monday said the tragic incidents of Abbottabad and PNS Mehran in Karachi reflected the weaknesses in country’s...

The National Assembly Standing Committee on Finance supported on Wednesday increasing the budget of the Foreign Affairs Ministry by 40 percent, but unanimously agreed...

Unidentified motorists clubbed a 45-year-old man to death when he stopped them from teasing a girl in the Defence A Police Station precincts on...

Defence Minister Ch. Ahmad Mukhtar said that no one should have any doubt about the defence capabilities of the country and warned that any...

MANCHESTER - Amir Khan insists he is fully focused on his world title defence against Paul McCloskey on Saturday despite a turbulent build-up dogged by a wrangle over television money.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) light-welterweight champion could end up walking away with less money from a fourth defence than his challenger after a change in UK broadcasters that will show the fight. The fight at the MEN Arena in Manchester will now be screened by the pay-per-view channel

MANCHESTER - Amir Khan insists he is fully focused on his world title defence against Paul McCloskey on Saturday despite a turbulent build-up dogged by a wrangle over television money.
The World Boxing Association (WBA) light-welterweight champion could end up walking away with less money from a fourth defence than his challenger after a change in UK broadcasters that will show the fight.
The fight at the MEN Arena in Manchester will now be screened by the pay-per-view

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Army has sought an increase of Rs 81.46 billion in the defence budget in fiscal year 2011-12 against current year allocations in the wake of operation against terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Tribal Areas. As per details of the defence budget provided by the Defence Ministry to parliament, all three forces had recommended proposals of Rs 5.825 trillion, but the ministry had cut the amount by Rs 59 billion in view of severe economic meltdown and sent

LAHORE - Main Boulevard Defence, a thoroughfare leading to the Defence Housing Authority (DHA), continues to irk people because of a dilapidated condition of its service lanes over the last four years. The situation worsened after the service lanes were dug up to lay a new drainage system and this project has been in the doldrums for more than six months now.
The service roads, stretching over more than 1.5 km with width between 25 feet and 30 feet, are splattered with heaps of

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly's Standing Committee on Defence on Thursday recommended an 18 percent increase in the defence budget for the year of 2011-1012.
MNA Haider Ali Shah, a member of the committee, told Pakistan Today that the committee was given a presentation on the budget proposals for the next year, adding that it was briefed that the devaluation of the rupee and the expenditure in operations conducted in Swat, Bajaur and South Waziristan were major reasons for

RIYADH - US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates was holding talks in Riyadh on Wednesday with Saudi King Abdullah, with both sides concerned by Iranian intentions in the region and spiralling unrest in Yemen.
"Iran will be a major focus of their conversations, both in terms of the regional threat they pose but also lately in the role they've been playing in trying to exploit the unrest in the region to their advantage," Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said ahead of the meeting.

COLOMBO - The South Asian countries have expressed grave concern over worsening sanitation conditions in the region and demanded increase budgetary allocation to tackle the issue by slashing the defence expenditure.
In this connection, the ministers from the SAARC countries, including Pakistan, on Wednesday adopted Colombo Declaration which says that the governments in the region would make legislate to make the right to sanitation a part of the respective countries'

ISLAMABAD - United Kingdom Defence Staff Chief General David Richards called on Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Khalid Shameem Wynne in Chaklala on Tuesday.
"He discussed matters of mutual interest with the CJCSC, especially emphasising emerging regional and geo-strategic environments," said an Inter-Services Public Relations statement.

MILAN - Inter Milan will be hoping to produce an improved defensive display when they host Schalke 04 in the Champions League quarter-final, first leg at the San Siro on Tuesday. Defensive solidity was one thing missing from their hugely disappointing 3-0 top-of-the-table derby defeat to AC Milan in Serie A on Saturday.
Coach Leonardo believes Andrea Ranocchia, who only joined from Genoa in January as cover for Samuel, has the potential to be a mainstay at both club and

LAHORE - The FIA has failure in implicating my client in the NICL land deal, Moonis Elahis' defence lawyer said. He said the FIA is concocting stories to malign Elahi's reputation. Commenting on the 14 days physical remand, he said the FIA had used all methods in the book but were unable to come up with evidence against Moonis Elahi. He said that this was undeniable proof of Moonis Elahi's innocence.
Moonis Elahi's defence lawyer said that it was now evident to all that the

It has emerged that Hollywood star George Clooney and footballer Christiana Ronaldo may be called to testify as defense witnesses for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the 'bunga bunga' sex trial.
The 'Ocean's Eleven' actor and Real Madrid striker were named on a list of 78 possible witnesses, including Clooney's Italian girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis as well as several other prominent TV personalities. "The list includes several personalities as well as cabinet

LAHORE - Justice Umar Ata Bandial of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday sought reply from defense ministry on a petition of Jamatud Dawa Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed seeking directions for the government to defend him being a citizen of Pakistan before an US Court which issued summons to him, ISI incumbent chief and other officials on a law suit filed by relatives of US nationals killed in Mumbai attacks.
As proceedings started on Tuesday, a deputy attorney general submitted a

KARACHI - A 60-member delegation of the National Defence University, Islamabad along with senators, elected representatives from all provinces, civil society representatives, journalists, bureaucrats and social workers, led by Maj Gen Azhar Ali Shah called on Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Minister's House on Wednesday.
Sindh Senior Education Minister Pir Mazharul Haq, acting Chief Secretary Abdul Subhan Memon, secretaries of Education, Mines and Mineral