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Khyber agency, April 23, 2015, a large quantum of narcotics destroyed in Khyber agency on Thursday. The corps commander 11 corps Lt General Hidayat Ur Rehman, who was chief guest of the program attends the ceremony. IG frontier Constabulary Major General Taib Azal also attends the drug burn ceremony in the area of Shah Kas. Army official, political agents of Bara and civil official of different departments of Khyber agency also attend the drug burn ceremony. Official brief the Corps commander about the Drug and they informed that 72716 Kg Hashish , 117 Kg Heroin , 389 Kg Opium ,...

The US has delivered four refurbished Mi-17 helicopters to the Pakistan Army. The overhaul programme, carried out at an American facility, provides critical support to the Pakistan Army by expediting maintenance and returning urgently needed aircraft for flight operations, the US embassy said in a statement. The US has funded maintenance overhauls for 24 Mi-17s in Pakistan Army, 12 of which were completed and returned to Pakistan last year. The remaining eight helicopters are scheduled for delivery later this year. The US is coordinating with the Pakistan Army to fund overhauls for another ten Mi-17s, and recently delivered to them...

The Pentagon on Thursday said Pakistan would decide when to move against extremists in North Waziristan and that it was not Washington's role to dictate timing of military operations in the country. US officials have long urged Pakistan to take its offensive against Islamist militants to North Waziristan, home to an array of extremists including Al-Qaeda and the so-called Pakistani Taliban. Revelations that a foiled car bomb plot in New York City may have been linked to the Pakistani Taliban have added fresh urgency to US requests for action by Islamabad in North Waziristan. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell repeated...

Operation Rah-e-Nijat has been termed as the ‘mother of all battles’ and is considered to be the most serious drive yet by the army into South Waziristan. This time around, the military’s objectives are to re-establish the writ of the state in a region where it has conducted operations thrice before, all of which have concluded prematurely with peace deals. According to the military, South Waziristan is the center of gravity of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) which has waged a brutal war on the country, killing scores of innocent civilians and military personnel. The militants also understand the strategic...

via translation - ALERT - Pakistan: General killed in the attack near Islamabad ISLAMABAD - A general in the Pakistani army was one of four people killed Monday in a suicide attack in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, told from the security services.

RAWALPINDI: Pervez Musharraf stepped down Wednesday from the Army Chief post handing over the Army command to Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, who took charge as 14th Chief of Pakistan Army. Musharraf addressing the change of command ceremony in this garrison town, said he was leaving the Army in a best state. He said he knows Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani for last 20 years who is a best soldier and the Army officer. “After passing 46 years in the Army I am saying farewell to the institution,” President Musharraf said. “I am sad to leave the Army, which is like...

Bhutto: Musharraf to quit Pakistan army By Isambard Wilkinson in Islamabad Last Updated: 2:11am BST 29/08/2007 Gen Musharraf has agreed to resign as army chief after striking a deal with Benazir Bhutto President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has agreed to resign as army chief in a power-sharing deal with Benazir Bhutto, the exiled former prime minister claimed yesterday. He had previously insisted that he would remain army chief while standing for re-election as president. But a deepening political crisis appears to have forced the general, a key ally in the US-led war on -terror, to compromise. After months of secretive...

War brutalizes man, every afghan bears living testimony to this. If the landscape of Afghanistan bears the craters of the endless war, the political and military leadership in Afghanistan also carries war's indelible scars. It is important never to lose sight of this. Ahmed Shah Mas'ud was born to an army family in 1953 in the Panjshir Valley north of the Afghan capital Kabul. His father was a colonel in the Afghan Army and enrolled his son at Kabul's Lycee Istiqlal High School. Upon graduation Mas'ud joined Kabul's Polytechnic Institute. In 1973 King Zahir Shah was deposed and exiled by...

A London accountant has described how Pakistan's disgraced nuclear hero Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan visited the West African state of Mali on three occasions between 1998 and 2000. Abdul Ma'bood Siddiqui accompanied A.Q. Khan on three mystery trips  between 1998 and 2000. Their final destination was Timbuktu, a remote outpost in the desert that has always been a magnet for explorers and adventurers from around the world. The mystery behind the visits has deepened following recent revelations that Khan is also the owner of a small hotel in the town that he has named after Hendrina, his Dutch-born wife and...