Tag: Operations

Shahbaz hindering PBIT operations

The Punjab government is facing problems in running the Punjab Board of Investment and Trade (PBIT), as two of its chief executive officers (CEOs)...

Emirates completes 13 years of operations in Peshawar

Emirates Airline has completed 13 years of successful operations in Peshawar during the month of July. Emirates commenced its first flight to Peshawar on...

KESC suspends field operations in Karachi

The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has suspended its field operations and has announced that all offices will remain closed until the government acts...

Syrian army readies operations near Iraq border

The army is preparing to storm the eastern border town of Al-Bukamal, next to Iraq, where “armed groups” have created an “explosive” situation,” Al-Watan...

Saudi low-fare airlines starts operations

The Saudi low fare airlines, Nasair, has started its operations from the capital’s Benazir International Airport as the first flight of Airbus A320 landed...

Yemen’s al Qaeda extends operations in south

Yemen's al Qaeda wing has stepped up operations in the southern flashpoint province of Abyan, its embassy in the United States said, taking advantage...

‘CIA won’t be allowed operations in Pakistan’

Interior Minister Rehman Malik Saturday said Pakistan is a sovereign state and the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is neither conducting any operation...

Criminals will be shot on sight, says DIG operations

Lahore Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Operations Ghulam Mahmood Dogar on Thursday warned all criminals to give up or flee the city otherwise according to...

NATO extends Libya operations to September

NATO said on Wednesday it had extended its Libyan mission for a further 90 days, after Muammar Gaddafi made it clear he would not...

Japan’s Hamaoka N-plant to halt operations

The operator of Japan’s ageing Hamaoka nuclear plant, located near a tectonic faultline southwest of Tokyo, said Monday it would temporarily shut down its...

After Osama’s death US has no reason to remain in Afghanistan,...

Leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan said that after death of Osama Bin Laden, US no longer has solid reason to remain in Afghanistan...

Govt in the loop on all ISI operations: PM

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Wednesday came out in the open to back the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), saying the top intelligence agency’s actions...

HEC will continue its operations, says Khosa

LAHORE - University of Veterinary and Animal Science (UVAS) Chancellor and Punjab Governor Sardar Latif Khosa attended the 3rd convocation of UVAS at its Ravi Campus, Pattoki on Wednesday.' Addressing the convocation, Khosa said the Higher Education Commission (HEC) would continue its operations because the 18th Amendment did not absolve the federal government from its responsibility to promote higher education. He said it was time to rectify the stigma on Punjab and its judiciary

PALPA influencing postings in PIA’s flight operations

KARACHI - The Pakistan Airline Pilots' Association (PALPA) has virtually taken over the PIA and presently the organisation is dictating the postings in the flight operations section. Pakistan Today has learnt that after the successful campaign of Joint Action Committee led by the pilots' association, which resulted in the removal of the then managing director, the association has assumed the role of a dictator. In the first place, they have replaced all the important posts in the

‘CIA no longer needs ISI for FATA operations’

LAHORE - The Central Investigation Agency (CIA) has established its own spy network in the tribal areas of Pakistan, reported The Economic Times newspaper while quoted various sources.
The US said the CIA no longer required any collaboration with the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to specify targets for drone strikes. According to a US official, the network was developed during the last two years.
The newspaper says the meeting between the spymasters, CIA Director Leon

Army gets new DG Military Operations

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Friday reshuffled the Army's top brass and appointed Major General Ashfaq as Director General of Military Operations (DGMO). He will replace recently-promoted Lt-Gen Javed Iqbal who has been appointed Adjutant General (AG).
Javed will take over the charge from Lt-Gen Nadeem Taj who is retiring in the last week of this month. Similarly, Lt-Gen Muhammad Asif has been appointed Director General at Joint Staff

CIA will not halt operations in Pakistan

WASHINGTON - The Central Intelligence Agency has no plans to suspend "operations" in Pakistan against terror suspects despite objections from leaders in Islamabad, a US official said.
Pakistan has criticized missile strikes by US drone aircraft against militants in the country but CIA Director Leon Panetta has told intelligence officials that he has a duty to prevent attacks on the United States, the senior official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
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