Posts Tagged ‘Army’

Indian top military officer dismisses US report on China ‘limited’ war report

A top Indian military officer has dismissed a US intelligence assessment that the Indian Army is strengthening itself for a ‘limited conflict’ with China, asserting the country’s armed forces are more of deterrence to rivals.
‘The US intelligence publishes reports specially pertaining to other countries … our strong armed forces are more of deterrence to enemies eyeing our territories,’ Air …

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American brigadier general dies in Afghanistan

A 49-year-old US Brigadier general died of apparently natural causes in Afghanistan, the Army said Friday, the highest-ranking soldier to die during the war.
Brig. Gen. Terence J. Hildner was identified as the first of that rank to die in Afghanistan since the war began there in 2001.
The New Haven, Conn.-born Hildner, who listed Fairfax, Va., as his home, took command of 13th Sustainment Command …

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US military judge recommends court-martial for WikiLeaks’ source

WASHINGTON – A US military judge has recommended that Bradley Manning, a low-ranking intelligence analyst, face a general court-martial for allegedly disclosing hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic files and reports to WikiLeaks, the Army announced Friday.
Manning, 24, is charged with aiding the enemy, transmitting national defense information in violation of the Espionage …

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Part of Quaid-i-Azam House wall demolished

The army has demolished the boundary wall of the Quaid-i-Azam House Museum – a national monument which is protected under the heritage conservation and protection of antiquities laws – despite the Sindh Culture

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Via DAWN.com

At least 17 killed in Syria violence: activists

BEIRUT: At least 17 people, two of them children and nine of them government troops, were killed in violence across Syria on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britain-based group said a total of nine soldiers were killed in separate clashes with Free Syrian Army rebels in two villages in Daraa province, [...]

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Margat attack toll rises to 15

QUETTA – At least 15 Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers were killed and 12 wounded in clashes in Margat area, some 60 kilometers east of the provincial capital here on Wednesday.Defunct Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack. According to a statement of Frontier Corps, miscreants on Tuesday midnight attacked four check posts of FC established in Pakistan Mineral Development …

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Indian Army preparing for ‘limited conflict’ with China: US intelligence

Noting that India is increasingly getting concerned about China’s posture on its border, a top US intelligence official on Wednesday said that the Indian Army is strengthening itself for a “limited conflict” with China.
“Despite public statements intended to downplay tensions between India and China, we judge that India is increasingly concerned about China’s posture along their disputed border …

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SC orders spymasters to produce prisoners

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court hearing the case of 11 missing prisoners from Adiala Jail on Monday ordered the spymasters to produce the remaining seven prisoners on February 9.According to reports, 11 prisoners were allegedly picked up by the spy agencies after their release from Adiala Jail in 2010. The prisoners were convicted of attacking army installations including the GHQ and former …

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Adiyala prisoner’s case: SC orders seven remaining prisoners to be presented on Feb 9

A three member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry on Monday heard the case of the eleven missing prisoners of the Adiyala Jail.
The prisoners were convicted for attacking army installations including the GHQ.
During proceedings the counsel for the army and intelligence agencies, Raja Arshad informed the court that four of the eleven prisoners were …

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SC gives memo commission two more months to finish work

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted travel ban on Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani, who was barred two months ago from leaving the country for his alleged role in a memo that sought U.S. help against the army.
A Pakistani-American business tycoon, Mansoor Ijaz, had claimed late last year that he had been asked by Haqqani to deliver an alleged memo to the U.S. …

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Syria says at least 9 soldiers killed in bus ambush

The Syrian military launched an offensive to regain control of suburbs on the eastern edge of Damascus Sunday, storming neighborhoods and clashing with groups of army defectors in fierce fighting that sent residents fleeing and killed at least three civilians, activists said. Six soldiers were also killed when a roadside bomb detonated near the bus they were traveling in several miles south of …

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Akram Sheikh moves SC to record Ijaz statement abroad

Advocate Akram Sheikh, counsel for Mansoor Ijaz, the men at the center of memogate controversy, has moved an application in the Supreme Court of Pakistan, requesting that his client’s statement be recorded abroad. He said in the application that it seemed that the government and army had compromised over the memogate issue.

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Yemen: 5 killed in clashes with al-Qaida militants

Yemeni security officials say fighting between government troops and al-Qaida linked militants in the country’s south has killed at least five people. The army has been trying for months to dislodge the militants from the towns and territory they seized last spring in Abyan province, taking advantage of the security collapse in the country amid months of political turmoil. The security officials …

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4 BLA operatives held from DGK

LAHORE – The law enforcement agencies have arrested four alleged terrorists associated with the banned militant outfit Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) involved in an attack on a Frontier Corps Convoy in Kangri area of Musakhel district, 350 km northeast of Quetta on Nov 21 last year.
Above 15 security personnel including an FC Major and a non-commissioned officer were among the dead and …

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Imran Khan against any military control of state policies

NEW YORK- Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan has come out against any army control over the policies of a democratic government, and voiced his firm opposition to any sort of military takeover or intervention
“In a democratic government, the power is held by the state head. Every policy is supposed to be made by the government and not the army. Foreign policy is the job of the democratic …

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Opposition will not support any constitutional amendment: Nisar

Opposition leader Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Thursday that his party Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) will not be a part of any constitutional amendment.
Speaking to the media outside the Parliament House, Nisar said that he will bring all opposition parties together to talk to the government on the issue.
Commenting on Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani reversing his statements …

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Nisar flays Gilani for retracting anti-army remarks

Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Thursday criticized the government for its security policy and lambasted Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani for what he called ‘unjustified’ statements of the premier.
In a bid to defuse the worst tensions between civilian leaders and the military, the PM on Wednesday retracted from his remarks that army …

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