Tag: Military

Architects of the endgame

They’re all ‘coping with frogs’ The two-day trilateral summit of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, which concluded in Islamabad on Friday, 17 February 2012, has exposed...

Britain warns Israel over military action against Iran

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday that Israel would not be "wise" to attack Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, saying it should...

17 militants killed, 18 injure in encounter

Seventeen militants and died eighteen others injured in an encounter between the militants and Security forces in the different areas of Orakzai and Khyber...

Bowing out

And knowing when to leave To be fair to the ISI chief, he has not himself asked for another extension. So the blame for propagating...

20th Amendment

No mean feat Despite the various failures and shortcomings of the PPP-led coalition, it goes to the government’s credit that it has managed to take...

Amendment for the better

Twentieth time’s the charm The ruling coalition and the opposition have both been successful with their agendas. The opposition wanted to ensure that the government...

Militants outlaw attacks against army in NWA

Pakistan’s leading militants have called on fighters to honour an agreement not to attack the Pakistani military in the most important sanctuary for the...

Kashmir erupts in protest after army shoots innocent

Protesters blocked a main highway in restive Indian Kashmir on Saturday after a young man was shot dead by the army in what military...

Protests erupt in Kashmir after youth slain by army

Protesters blocked a main highway in restive Indian Kashmir on Saturday after a young man was shot dead by the army in what military...

Egypt braces for strikes to mark Mubarak’s ouster

Student activists held strikes in Egypt on Saturday to mark a year since they toppled Hosni Mubarak, leaving an increasingly unpopular and defiant military...

Police SI allegedly abducted by military personnel

Unidentified armed men on Wednesday kidnapped a sub-inspector posted in Misri Shah police station. Police sources said Sub-Inspector Muhammad Javed of Misri Shah police...

Signs of a thaw

About time too The over two month long tension between Pakistan and the US seems to be easing now. Domestic and American media reports indicate...

Seven Pakistani soldiers, 18 militants killed in lower Kurram

Seven Pakistani soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a Taliban attack on their check post in the country's northwestern tribal belt, according...

Bara residents protest against military operation

The Tehreek-e-Mutasareen Bara Khyber Agency held a sit-in outside the Governor’s House to protest against the military operation in the area and imposition of...

Nine rockets fired at military academy in Abbottabad

The wall of Pakistan Military Academy (PMA) Kakul was partially damaged when rockets fired by unknown miscreants hit it in the wee hours of...

The runaway general

It seems that Musharraf’s return has been ‘delayed’ even though he had claimed to return very soon. It is very easy for some of...

Age of military coups is over: Imran Khan

Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan on Wednesday said the age of military coups was over and there would be no coup in Pakistan despite opposition’s...