Tag: Pakistan Army
Four officers promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General: ISPR
News Desk | On Friday, the Inter-Services Public Relations announced the promotion of four Major Generals to the ranks of lieutenant generals. The media wing...
ISPR cannot issue any letter to PEMRA: Inam-ur-Rahim
News Desk | News analyst colonel (r) Inam-ur-Rahim while commenting on Inter-Services Public Relations’ recent letter to PEMRA pertaining to the issue of inviting defense...
ISPR releases ‘proof’ to nullify Indian claims of downing F16
News Desk | Hours after New Delhi denied the Foreign Policy report that nullified its lies by stating that US defence officials had physically counted...
DG ISPR advises people not to wear Pak Army caps in...
News Desk | Major General Asif Ghafoor, DG Inter-Services Public Relations in his recent tweet has urged the people of Pakistan to not involve politics...
Raheel Sharif meets Gen Bajwa ahead of Crown Prince’s visit to...
News Analysis | Current Commander of an alliance of 41 Muslim countries and Pakistan army’s ex-chief Gen. (R) Raheel Sharif met with the current chief...
Why Pakistan needs a ‘Private Army’?
Zeeshan Munir | The services of private contractors are used around the world. P. W. Singer, author of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry...
“Inimical forces and foreign agendas”: COAS suggests state to get tough
News Analysis | General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), has made it clear on Friday that Pakistan will eradicate the menace of...
Daughter of Shireen Mazari ‘back on’ Twitter after criticizing Pakistan Army
News Desk | Imaan Mazari, the daughter of Shireen Mazari, the Federal Minister of Human Rights joined Twitter back after a brief deactivation of her...
What led to 1965 war? – Part 1
Saleem Akhtar Malik l The 1965 War Kashmir is simmering with a brazen homegrown resistance movement against the Indian state. Since last year, Kashmir is back...
The 2018 Election: Some observations – Muhammad Zahid Rifat
Muhammad Zahid Rifat | The casting of a vote in the general election for the National and Provincial Assemblies on July 25, 2018, was my...
What Imran Khan means to Indian occupied Kashmir
Murtaza Shibli | Ghulam Nabi Ganai, a 67-year-old retired executive engineer, is elated about Imran Khan’s victory. As I enter his home in Frisal, a...
Pakistan Army team wins international military drill competition in the UK
News Analysis | The Pakistan Army team won an international military drill competition known as the 'All Arms and International Pace Sticking Competition' held at...
Six dead after militants attack Pakistan border posts
AFP | Six militants have been killed after a thwarted attack on Pakistan army posts along the country's border with Afghanistan, the military said Sunday. Five...
Who is behind Nawaz Sharif’s Disqualification?
News Analysis | The ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has once again blamed the Pakistan Army as the sole reason behind all of his political...
A soldier’s romance with martyrdom
Samson Simon Sharaf | Colonel Sohail Abid Raja our little soldier boy was commissioned in First Sindh Regiment (Fakhar e Sindh). We called him Raja...
I am already a part of politics, just not electoral politics:...
News Desk | The man who could very well be described as the Jack of all trades. He was a police officer from Pakistan’s Central...
Nawaz Sharif- traitor or trader?
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | There's a famous dialogue attributed to Abu Sufyan in the movie ‘The Message’ when he refuses to re-attack the Muslim...
From a Yousafzai to Manzoor Pashteen – Not in my name!!
Shiffa Yousafzai | I am a proud Pathan – who speaks Urdu with an accent. Pashtuns may have entered the sub-continent from the North Western corridor,...
Pakistan Army backs PCB for progressive portrayal of country through revival...
News Analysis | Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, the Chief of Army Staff, has lavished praise on Pakistan Cricket Board and its chairman, Najam Sethi, for...
Pakistan Vs India: Whose Air Force is more efficient?
News Desk | When the 'Wright Brothers' flew the first ever airplane successfully in 1903, they had little idea that their invention would be modified...
Why Hussain Haqqani is considered a traitor by Pakistanis?
News Analysis | A treason case has been registered against Pakistan’s former ambassador to the United States Hussain Haqqani. Mr. Haqqabi has allegedly conspired against...
Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South...
Adnan Qaiser | CDA Institute Research Associate Adnan Qaiser, with a distinguished career in the armed forces and international diplomacy, reviews Myra MacDonald’s book on...
State Surrender
Saad Rasool | As the nation recovers from TLY’s dharnas in Islamabad and Lahore, one lamentable fact has become painfully clear: no matter who the...
India’s dirty war inside Pakistan – Part II
Asif Haroon Raja | In the last 15 years, India has been able to make successes against Pakistan:- It succeeded in maligning the image of Pakistan...
Indian propaganda trying to save Nawaz’s skin
Dr. Shahbaz Shabbir Gill | Indian media’s recent public expression of affection for Nawaz Sharif is quite uncharacteristic of its typical hostile treatment towards Pakistani...
Pulling the plug on Afghanistan
Ikram Sehgal | Recent reports coming out of Washington suggest that the proposal by US National Security Adviser (NSA) Mr. MacMaster for a moderate rise...
Husain Haqqani: An opportunist turncoat!
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | I must start with an apology because this is a very harsh indictment of Husain Haqqani. It is harsh because he...
Kashmiri civilians terrorized by LoC shellings
Attacks from both sides of the Line of Control have escalated in recent days, leaving Kashmiri civilians caught in between terrorized. Last week a teenage...
Can the SC disqualify the PM (and Maryam Nawaz) without referring...
Saad Rasool | What Dr. Shahid Masood calls ‘Operation Dhabardoos’, seems to be well under way. Braving through a barrage of criticism and character assassination, the...
Cockroaches- Part 2. The Rule of Law and due process
Syed Haider Raza Mehdi | "It is rejected," said Marium Safdar for her incredibly "long" attention spans, an admirable trait inherited from her father and...
Raymond Davis’s book ”The Contractor”: What’s behind the scenes?
Ikram Sehgal | A mercenary contracted to American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Raymond Davis recently published his book ‘The Contractor: How I Landed in a Pakistani...
Warnings and threats: Is an Indo-Pak war inevitable now?
News Analysis | If chest-thumping by politicians on both sides of the border was not enough to indicate troubled times, the Indian Army warned Pakistan...
Will judicial activism enable JIT to get accountability?
Ikram Sehgal | The Supreme Court’s (SC) seriousness of purpose in the PanamaGate case was evident from the brusque manner it dismissed Hussain Nawaz’s apprehensions...
Pakistan in the last decade: Democracy, Corruption, or Development?
Rida Hussain | According to the interpretation of the general notion, the accelerated development of Pakistan is directly proportional to the incoming dollars in terms...
Can India actually win a war against Pakistan?
Saleem Akhtar Malik | Indian Army releases a video showing the purported destruction, by artillery fire, of a Pakistani post along the LOC. Pakistan Army...
Nawaz’s Machiavellian politics behind Nisar’s new found love for the Army?
News Analysis | On Tuesday, the Interior Minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, defending the government’s drive against social media activists, said the government would not...