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Gen Austin to be nominated next US CENTCOM chief

US Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen Lloyd Austin will be nominated to be the next commander of the Central Command, according to a...

Gen Sabahat, Farook, Tariq lead in Governor’s Cup Golf

At the conclusion of the 2nd round in this three rounds Millat Tractors sponsored 29th Governors Cup Golf Tournament, the top contenders for the...

Gen Wynne spends day at IDEAS-212

On the second day of IDEAS-2012, General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), spent a busy day here and met...

Gen Allen to leave Afghanistan post

Marine Corps Gen John Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, is expected to leave his post early next year and take over the US...

Perceptions of Afghan Taliban victory dangerous: Gen Rabbani

The withdrawal of most combat troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2014 has raised questions from Kabul to Brussels to Washington about the...

Gen Tariq Majeed’s son-in-law recovered

Law enforcement agencies on Thursday recovered the son-in-law of former chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Lt General (r) Tariq Majeed. Amir...

Gen Mattis to iron out new ‘terms of engagement’ during visit

The US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM) chief, General James N Mattis, who is expected to visit Pakistan in a week, will give final shape...

US aid cut to affect anti-terrorism efforts, says Gen Musharraf

Former President Pervez Musharraf said the Obama administration’s suspension of $800 million in aid to the Pakistani military was not in the interest of...

Gen Kayani shows no signs of quitting soon

At the height of the storm which swept Pakistan after the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden, army chief General Ashfaq Kayani spoke...

Kayani fighting to keep his job: NYT

Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is fighting to save his position in the face of seething anger from top generals and...

Gen Musharraf is a wanted man

An anti-terrorism court hearing the Benazir Bhutto murder case on Monday declared former president Pervez Musharraf a proclaimed offender and ordered publishing advertisements against...

Russian army chief calls on Gen Wayne

Colonel General Alexander Postnikov, Commander-in-Chief Russian Ground Forces, called on General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), at Joint Staff...

Gen Pasha doesn’t divulge Osama’s ‘host network’

Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General (DG) Lt General Ahmad Shuja Pasha shied away from divulging any information on the “host network” of Osama bin...

Gen Wynne cancels US visit

In a clear reflection of profound anger prevailing among the country’s defence circles over the covert US operation in Abbottabad on May 2, Chairman...

Chinese troops on LoC: Gen Parnaik

JAMMU - A top Indian Army Commander blamed that China's presence in Pakistan -administered Kashmir is "increasing steadily" and its troops are "actually present" along the Line of Control (LoC), , adding the Chinese footprints are "too close for comfort" for India.
"Chinese presence in Gilgit-Baltistan and the Northern Areas is increasing steadily. There are many people who are concerned about the fact that if there was to be hostility between us and Pakistan, what would be the

ANP gen secy, MQM man among 5 killed

KARACHI - An ANP general secretary and a MQM activist were among five killed in separate incidents of violence across the city on Monday. ANP Sindh District West General Secretary Hanif Khan was attacked in the Metroville area. Sixty one-year-old Khan was shot in the street while he was on his way to a mosque. MQM activist Sajid Butt was gunned down in Zia Colony near the Lyari Expressway in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. In another incident, one Misar Gul was stabbed at Khayaban-e-Tanzeem in the

Fleeing Taliban have taken refuge in Pakistan, says Gen Petraeus

LAHORE - The coalition forces have forced out the Taliban out of territory they had held for up to five years and many of them had escaped to sanctuaries in Pakistan, Gen David H Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said on Tuesday, according to New York Times. He said coalition forces would focus in the coming months on a strategy called "defence and depth", blocking the Taliban's their return through strategic border regions that the insurgents traditionally used,