The former Governor of State Bank of Pakistan Dr. Ishrat Husain has said the current economic difficulties in his country starting from 2007 have arisen due to a variety of internal factors and policy and management lapses. Although, the constraints are formidable, however opportunities do exist both domestically as well…
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LAHORE – Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif has approved the posting policy for the newly-recruited 1,200 Medical Officers through Public Service Commission.
According to it postgraduate trainee doctors would be posted in the relevant teaching hospital so that they could complete their post graduation training. Explaining the posting policy…
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EGYPTIAN fighters are increasingly aiding extremists in the badlands of Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, providing training, financing and weapons, said a top Pakistani military commander.
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Examiner, 11th Corps Commander Lt-Gen Muhammad Masood Aslam said fighters from Algeria and the Sudan are also joining…
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Voicing concern over Pakistan’s inaction against perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks, including Hafiz Saeed, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirpuma Rao on Tuesday warned that India’s restraint should not be confused with weakness and said it is “very, very difficult” to resume composite dialogue at present adding that some of the leaders…
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Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani met the visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai here on Thursday and offered training to Afghan forces in Pakistan.
According to official sources, the Army Chief discussed the current security situation of the region with the Afghan President. The meeting also discussed…
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The Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said Wednesday Pakistan has formally asked Afghan government to train their National Army, adding, India is meddling into affairs of Pakistan through Afghanistan, a private TV reported.
He vowed to take up this issue with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his official visit to…
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LOS ANGELES (Agencies) – The top US diplomat in Pakistan has said that the US is gathering information with Pakistan and other governments to identify and locate people holding US passports who are receiving terrorist training then legally returning to commit violent acts.
The envoy said the Obama administration does…
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A top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan said on Friday that the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared overseas to train with al-Qaida or other terrorist groups, but the number is not thought to be large.
Speaking to the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los…
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An Azerbaijani Su-25 fighter jet crashed during a training exercise in the west of the ex-Soviet republic on Wednesday, killing its pilot, the defence ministry said. The accident occurred at about 5:00 pm local time (1800 PST) during a training flight over the Shamkir region near Azerbaijan’s border with Georgia,…
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Two South Korean fighter jets apparently crashed into a mountain Tuesday during a routine training flight near their east coast base, military officials said. The F-5s with a total of three pilots aboard went missing five minutes after leaving base at Gangneung 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of Seoul, the…
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Two South Korean fighter jets apparently crashed into a mountain Tuesday during a routine training flight near their east coast base, military officials said. The F-5s with a total of three pilots aboard went missing five minutes after leaving base at Gangneung 160 kilometres (100 miles) east of Seoul, the…
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When I was elected president more than a year ago, Pakistan was in a grave condition, strained by terrorism and a ravaged economy. Countering the effects of a decade of dictatorship requires bold actions, some of which are unpopular. I am working with parliament to run a country, not a…
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Five important militant commanders including Maulvi Alim Binori and Maulana Shamsul Haq were killed in Madain area of Swat tehsil of Behrain, a private TV reported Monday.
According to government sources, the security forces and the extremists exchanged fire at 4:20am today’s morning, where all five extremists were killed and…
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Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe on Sunday, leaving at least 16 people dead and more than a million households without power. Dubbed “Xynthia”, the Atlantic storm crashed against the western coasts of France and Spain overnight, bringing with it a band of foul weather stretching…
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WASHINGTON (Agencies) – Former officials familiar with the deal say that Blackwater is likely to get a Defence Department-issued contract worth hundreds of millions of dollars to train and mentor Afghan police.
Blackwater has contracts to do intelligence support, counter-narcotics support (with the Drug Enforcement Administration) and work on the…
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LAHORE – Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif on Friday restrained the federal and Punjab governments from extraditing five captured Afghan Taliban leaders to America or any other country besides seeking replies by March 15 on the issue of handing them over to America.
These Taliban leaders are…
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ISLAMABAD – Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Thursday told the National Assembly that Government had signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with the United States in September 2004 to impart training to Pakistani law enforcement agencies to combat terrorism.
No foreign agency has been hired for the training of law…
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