Pakistan to Launch Long-Range Missile, Informs India

Just days after India successfully test fired its first Inter Continental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), Agni-V, Pakistan has said that it plans to conduct a long-range missile test. According to Indian Media, Pakistan has informed India that it plans to conduct a long-range missile test in the Indian Ocean over the next five days. Pakistan has asked New Delhi to issue a notice to all commercial airlines to steer clear of the area. The move by Pakistan...

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Not allies: 8 dead as TTP, Haqqani Network clash in North Waziristan

There was no estimate of how many fighters were involved, but sources said the number runs in the hundreds for both groups. PESHAWAR: Intense clashes between the Haqqani Network and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan left at least eight people dead in North Waziristan Agency, local sources said on Thursday. “Taliban attacked Malik Karim Khan’s tribe late Wednesday night. The tribe resisted the attack, leading...

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Afghan Taliban Appeal for Donations

Kabul: Afghan Taliban on Wednesday appealed to the Muslim world for donations for their insurgency in a rare move that analysts said was part of their media war. According to reports the appeal was posted on Taliban website with telephone hotlines and email addresses, asking Muslims worldwide to help the rebels in what they say is a “Jihad”, or a holy war, against non-Muslim “invaders”. “In the light of Islamic sharia, all Muslims everywhere...

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Balochistan Can't be Separated in Army Presence: Musharraf

KARACHI: Former president Pervez Musharraf has said as long as Pakistan Army was there, Balochistan could not be separated from Pakistan. Addressing retired army officers organisation 'Pakistan First' over the video link on situation in Balochistan, the leader of All Pakistan Muslim League and former army chief said Balochistan Liberation Army is an organisation of militants supported by foreign elements and targeting non locals in the province. He regretted that some politicians were supporting the separatists for political gains. The former...

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Another Pakistani wins 'Sword of Honour' at Sandhurst-UK

Bringing Honour to the NationIt was another glorious day for Pakistani nation when another Son of the Soil proved his metal on a foreign land. Pakistan Army's, Cadet Officer...

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Apna Pakistan – Pakistan Army to Set-up a Countrywide Radio Network

Islamabad - In order to expand media outreach throughout Pakistan, the army is planning to set-up a countrywide radio network parallel to Radio Pakistan and PTV to create what it calls ‘social harmonisation’ and to propagate ‘state vision’ in a ‘vibrant manner’ said a media report Published inExpress Tribune. After the successful execution of FM radio projects in militancy-hit areas of Swat, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) and Balochistan,...

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The tale of two ex-officials

There will be time; there will be time; time to repent, time to regret, time to feel sorry and time to lament; but that will be too late. The people playing in hands of the conspirators would one day feel sorry for no one else but for their own-self, one day when they would realize that they have been brutally exploited against their own people and against their own land. That is the actual story of tomorrow for those who are now joining hands with the western conspirators and helping them out in destabilising Pakistan, ignoring the reality...

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Over 8,000 Indo-Pak Soldiers Killed in Siachen

LAHORE: The deadly avalanche that struck the battalion headquarters of the Northern Light Infantry (NLI) on the Siachen Glacier has brought to light the human and economic costs of sustaining the two-decade-long bloody conflict over the possession of the geographically remote and climatically inhospitable area, which has claimed the lives of over 8,000 Indian and Pakistani soldiers between April 1984 and April 2012. The Saturday's avalanche at the highest and costliest battlefield in the world buried alive at least 125 people, most of them...

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A Letter from Siachen

Dear A, “We, the willing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.” This quotation was written diagonally on the first page of his diary as he showed me his poems. My host is a young man, whose spirits are still volatile despite the sub-zero temperature of this place. It is our first meeting. He does not know that the quotation is by mother Teresa, he does not know mother Teresa at all. He thinks it was said for him, dismissing any...

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U.S. Experts to Help Pakistan Find Avalanche Victims

The U.S. sent a team of experts Sunday to help Pakistan search for 135 people buried a day earlier by a massive avalanche that engulfed a military complex in a mountain battleground close to the Indian border. At least 240 Pakistani troops and civilians worked at the site of the disaster at the entrance to the Siachen Glacier with the aid of sniffer dogs and heavy machinery, said the army. But they struggled to dig through some 25 metres of...

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