Posts Tagged ‘Tank’

SC moved to interpret ‘consultation’

ISLAMABAD – A constitutional petition has been moved in the Supreme Court with a plea to interpret the scope of ‘consultation’ between the President and the outgoing Leader of the House and the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly for the formation of caretaker governments during the next general election.
PILDAT, an independent political think tank of Pakistan, has …

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Russian destroyer escorts commercial vessels in Gulf of Aden

A new task force from Russia’s Pacific Fleet has escorted its first convoy of commercial vessels along the designated safety corridor after its recent arrival to the Gulf of Aden, the fleet’s spokesman said on Sunday.
The task force, which comprises the Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Tributs, the Pechenega tanker and a rescue tugboat, left the home port of Vladivostok on December 10 …

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Israeli strike kills two Palestinians in Gaza

GAZA: An Israeli aircraft and tank strike killed two Palestinians close to the border fence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, medical officials said. Residents of the north Gaza town of Beit Hanoun said Israeli planes and tanks had fired into the area. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the attack and an army statement [...]

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S.Korean tanker sinks in Yellow Sea, 3 crewmen dead

A South Korean freight ship carrying fuel exploded in the Yellow Sea on Sunday morning, killing three crew-members and causing eight others to go missing, Yonhap news agency reported, referring to the Coast Guard.
The 4,191-ton vessel Doola No. 3 exploded in waters three miles north of Jawol Island near the port city of Incheon at around at 8:05 a.m. Five people aboard the ship were rescued.
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Taliban slay 15 FC soldiers

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PESHAWAR – The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed on Thursday to have killed 15 Frontier Constabulary personnel, who were kidnapped from Mullazai Fort in Tank on Dec 23, to avenge the killing of their colleagues in Landikotal.
According to pamphlets distributed by the Taliban to the media, it was stated that on Jan 01, the security forces of Pakistan killed TTP fighters and one woman. They …

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TTP claims responsibility of killing 15 FC personnel

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The banned Tehrek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants have claimed that they killed all the 15 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel they had kidnapped two weeks earlier from Mullazai Fort situated near Tank city.
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Ahsanullah Ahsan said Thursday that the kidnapped FC men had been shot and their bodies dumped in the North Waziristan tribal region close to …

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Russia ranked 2nd biggest global arms exporter

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Russia became the world’s second largest arms exporter after the US in 2011, said Igor Korotchenko, the head of the Moscow-based arms think tank Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT), Friday. The CAWAT ranking revealed that Russia occupied the second position for world arms sales in 2011 with…

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Militants attack security check post, one FC man killed, 30 missing

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At least one Frontier Constabulary (FC) jawan was martyred and another injured while more than thirty went missing when unidentified terrorists attacked a check post located in Malazai area of Tank district.
Security sources said that dozens of militants equipped with rocket launchers and modern weaponry assaulted the check…

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Militants attack paramilitary base, 15 soldiers abducted

Militants attacked a paramilitary base on Friday in the Mulazai area of the northwestern Tank district, killing a soldier and wounding two others, DawnNews reported.

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War with Pakistan top threat for US in 2012

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WASHINGTON (AFP) – A conflict with Pakistan, the euro crisis, and a political instability in Saudi Arabia and have emerged as top potential threats facing the United States in 2012, an influential think-tank said Friday.
The Council on Foreign Relation’s Center for Preventive Action anonymously surveyed US officials and experts…

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Twenty trucks torched in attack at Nato terminal in Quetta

QUETTA: Up to 20 trucks were destroyed in a rocket attack Thursday on a Nato trucking terminal in Quetta supplying troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, police said. A number of oil tankers and goods trucks were parked in the temporary terminal after Pakistan shut down supply lines for Nato forces in anger at a deadly cross-border [...]

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Germany denies controversial tank sale to Saudi

  BERLIN: Germany denied reports on Wednesday that it had agreed to export 270 Leopard battle tanks to Saudi Arabia, a deal that would draw stinging criticism from many Germans and opposition lawmakers. Echoing reports of a secret tank deal between the two sides in July, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit cited an official at [...]

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Russia-India tank deal in doldrums

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MOSCOW – Russia on Wednesday termed media speculations that it was trying to refuse to fulfil a decade-old licensed production of T-90s main battle tanks in India as futile.
“We are timely and completely fulfilling all agreements with India on the licensed production of T-90 tanks, including the delivery of…

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Nato supply routes blocked on 5th day

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The supply of fuel and other prerequisites necessary for ISAF and NATO forces to carry on combat against Taliban militants in Afghanistan through routes that lie on Pak-Afghan border stood closed for 5th day at a stretch.
Meanwhile, All Pakistan Oil Tankers Association (APOTA) have vowed expanding the blockade of…

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The how, what and where of Nato supply trucks

KABUL: Nato helicopters attacked a military checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing up to 28 troops and prompting Pakistan to shut the vital supply route for Nato troops fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said. Nato supply trucks and fuel tankers bound for Afghanistan were halted at Jamrud town in the Khyber tribal region near [...]

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Three Nato oil tankers gutted in Mastung

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At least three Nato oil tankers caught fire when some unknown miscreant opened fire on convoy in Balochistan. Sources said on Sunday that incident took place in Dasht area of Mastung district of the province, adding the gunmen were safely managed to escape from the spot after attack. The sources…

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Yemen government troop shelling kills 11: officials

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Yemeni security forces fired tank and artillery shells at a restive central city on Friday, killing 11 people, including three women and a nine-year-old boy, a medical official said. Violence has escalated in the Arab world’s poorest country following nearly nine months of a popular uprising seeking to oust longtime…

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