Gen.Kayani Invited to Moscow

Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kanayi has been invited to visit Moscow and the visit may take place shortly. Gen. Kayani may visit Russian Federation later this month.

It is believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is planning to visit Pakistan in the second half of this year and his visit may open a new phase of Pakistan-Russian relationship. Early this week Russia’s Special Envoy on Afghanistan Ambassador Zamir Kabulov visited Pakistan and had meetings with Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and a separate meeting with Gen. Kayani.

Presidents Asif Ali Zardari and Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in China the sidelines of Shanghai Cooperation Council Summit June 6-7.

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Armies of India, Pak biggest hurdle in solving Siachen: Pak minister

ISLAMABAD: Ahead of its key talks with India on the Siachen issue, Pakistan has claimed that the biggest hurdle in resolving the military standoff on the world's highest battlefield are the armies of the two countries.

Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, who was the defence minister till yesterday and has now been given the water and power portfolio in a minor Cabinet reshuffle, said India and Pakistan both stand to benefit from resolving the Siachen issue.

Both countries stood to gain nothing from the standoff on Siachen and the matter only served to satiate egos, he claimed during an interview with BBC Urdu.

He said the only way for India and Pakistan to coexist was to sit at the table and discuss the Siachen issue.

The Pakistani minister claimed that the biggest hurdle in resolving the military standoff on the Siachen glacier are the armies of Pakistan and India.

Senior Indian and Pakistani officials are set to hold talks on the Siachen issue in Islamabad on June 11 against the backdrop of renewed calls from the Pakistani civil and military leadership for the demilitarisation of the world's highest battlefield.

In response to a question, Mukhtar claimed Siachen was Pakistani territory and Pakistan had "responded" when India claimed the glacier.

"We think we can come to an agreement. India wants to talk on the Sir Creek issue first, we want to talk about Siachen first - the same issue of egos," he claimed.

"I think (Pakistan army chief Gen) Ashfaq Parvez Kayani understands this issue better than all of us and will help reach a decision when the time comes."

Asked how the Defence Minister, who is placed higher than the army chief, would allow a subordinate to take a decision, Mukhtar said that "Kayani would offer guidance (and) support, just as the government cooperates and supports the army."

Responding to a question why Pakistan is not making the first move of unilaterally withdrawing its troops to resolve the Siachen issue, Mukhtar contended that India was a big country and Pakistan expects it to demonstrate magnanimity by making the first move.

In response to another question, he said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh want to resolve the Siachen issue through dialogue.

Indian and Pakistani troops have been engaged in a standoff on Siachen since 1984.

The guns have largely been silent since late 2003, when the two countries put in place a ceasefire along the frontiers in Jammu and Kashmir, and more troops have died on the glacier due to adverse weather than combat.

Since an avalanche killed 139 people at a high-altitude Pakistan Army camp in the Siachen sector in April, security analysts and civil society groups have questioned the deployment of troops in the hazardous terrain

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Pak Army Chief General Ashfaq Will Meet Gen Mattis & Gen John Today

Pak Army Chief General Ashfaq will meet Gen Mattis & Gen John today.commander of U.S. Central Command James Matisse North Road, and the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, John Allen will appeal to the Pakistani army Chief of Staff General Kayan Swayze TODAY ‘Today (Wednesday).
According to inter-utility (ISPR) issued a statement, it was the events Salala after the first high-level meeting will focus on the investigation into this incident and improve coordination procedures at borders.
The meeting was also the day after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Barack Obama at the summit meeting in Seoul in nuclear margin.

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MEMOGATE~ Government's ill will to defame Pak Army Nailed

Despite having a ‘deep desire’ to see the government complete its term, the army and intelligence chiefs could simply not ignore the rumors surrounding the memogate scandal in spite of defaming them. Government was caught red-handed in its treachery, courtesy the memogate scandal of Traitor Hussain Haqqani, and their masters in White House tried their level best to save the government.

Mansoor Ijaz, an American business man exposed that controversy in his article also claimed that he has proofs with him about the conversation between him and Hussain haqqani about the memogate. An accuse which was blatantly defied by the Government and now If the government is being honest about the memo being nothing more than a piece of paper that has no existence, then why is it putting in so much effort to prevent Ijaz from appearing before the judicial commission that has been set up by the Supreme Court.

According to the recent statements by Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Ijaz will be apprehended when he arrives in Pakistan and his name will be added to the Exit Control List (ECL) through the approval of Parliamentary Committee of National Security. The only purpose of giving such a statement at a time when the Pakistani American businessman is due to record his statement before the judicial commission is to keep him away from the commission. The incessant intimidation by Gov to Mansoor Ijaz, abstained him to enter Pakistan which was portrayed as a ploy of Pakistan Army in order to contort the facts.

While in response to the ill will of government in wake of defaming Army, one should not be oblivious of Gen Kayani statement that there is no threat to democracy in Pakistan and the Army would continue to support the democratic process. On the other hand, character assassination of Mansoor Ijaz was also orchestrated by the Government of Pakistan to instill an image in general public that his reports about memogate are spurious as his own character is dubious. And now as the gov's ploy about Masoor is succeeded, it has started accusing Pak Army that it has stipulated with Mansoor Ijaz to stay quite. But these frail concoctions of Government are not going to end in their favor and this whole episode, instead of being celebrated, should be taken as a humbling experience for our media and institutions. They need serious soul searching after this.

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