A senior American defence official is under investigation after boasting to colleagues that he had operated a maverick network of private security contractors to gather intelligence on al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
Michael Furlong allegedly told colleagues that his group of contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan, many of them special forces…
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pakistan has cut by more than half a visa backlog affecting US officials and contractors needed to run American aid programmes aimed at combating extremism there, a State Department official said on Tuesday.
The United States and Pakistan were developing a “more cooperative, constructive relationship” in the…
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ISLAMABAD – Capital police on Monday recovered around 120-kilogram explosive material from a vehicle near Railway Carriage Factory on IJ Principal Road and arrested two persons including a woman.
According to details, three policemen including Assistant Sub-Inspector Afras, Head Constable Amjad and a constable intercepted a suspicious Toyota Hiace (LXK-1618)…
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NEW YORK — The US Defence Department is investigating a department official who set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, The New York Times reported Monday.
Citing interviews with military officials and businessmen in the United States and Afghanistan,…
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ISLAMABAD (APP) – National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence Production Tuesday recommended injecting a grant of US $250 million to the country’s mother defence industry – Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF) – to overhaul her aging production units.
The call came soon after the committee members, headed by Sheikh Aftab Ahmed,…
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ISLAMABAD (APP) – National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence Production Tuesday recommended injecting a grant of US $250 million to the country’s mother defence industry – Pakistan Ordinance Factories (POF) – to overhaul her aging production units.
The call came soon after the committee members, headed by Sheikh Aftab Ahmed,…
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ISLAMABAD – The funds allocated for expansion and rehabilitation of Kashmir Highway may lapse as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is taking extra long time in pre-qualifying contractors for the project.
The Authority had fixed December 31, 2009 as the last date for submission of documents for pre-qualification and 42…
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ISLAMABAD – The funds allocated for expansion and rehabilitation of Kashmir Highway may lapse as the Capital Development Authority (CDA) is taking extra long time in pre-qualifying contractors for the project.
The Authority had fixed December 31, 2009 as the last date for submission of documents for pre-qualification and 42…
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Chief Justice (CJ) of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry is chairing meeting of the Judicial Policy Committee at Karachi Registry of Supreme Court (SC), he said that although hundred percent targets of the policy have not been achieved but the overall performance of the judiciary is satisfactory.
The chief justices…
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LAHORE – Commenting over the reports of power theft during the public gathering organised the PML-N, Lesco Chief Executive Azhar Iqbal has commented that the factory in which the meeting the meeting was held has “sanctioned load”. He said if the illegal connections, popularly known as Kundas, were used from…
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WASHINGTON – Military contractors in Afghanistan working for the security company Blackwater regularly carried unauthorised weapons and engaged in “reckless” behaviour that included the accidental shooting of a fellow contractor, a US Senate investigation has found.
Investigators from the Senate Armed Services Committee also found weak oversight by the US…
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ISLAMABAD – The Benazir Tractor Scheme (BTS), the PPP’s first ever welfare project for the country’s peasants during its two-year rule, has caused huge financial losses to the national kitty mainly due to massive irregularities and nepotism, reliable sources have informed TheNation.
According to the informed sources, the tractors scheme,…
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LAHORE – Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that performance of the judges of the subordinate judiciary is not satisfactory despite the fact that they are getting handsome salaries.
Addressing the judicial officers of Lahore, Kasur and Sheikhupura at Punjab Judicial Academy on Saturday, the CJP questioned…
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ISLAMABAD – Minister for Interior Rehman Malik on Wednesday informed the Upper House of the Parliament that security agencies had confiscated a huge cache of explosives and suicide jackets from a house located on Chaman Bypass.
While winding up the debate on law and order situation, the Minister took the…
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The government has extended the tenure of Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt-Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, for a period of one year, reported a private TV channel Wednesday, quoting its sources.
According to sources, the decision was taken after the satisfactory performance of the ISI in the war…
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WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has acknowledged that an American contractor for the Defence Department is missing in Baghdad, saying attempts were being made to recover him.
The acknowledgment came after the League of the Righteous, portrayed in the US media as a Shiite group, posted a statement and video on…
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LOWER DIR (Agencies) – Senior NWFP Minister Bashir Bilour has confirmed the presence of Blackwater in the province and has said that the company is here to provide security to US firms and other non-government organisations, reported a private TV channel.
However, later he retracted from his stance saying that…
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