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The second round of US-Pakistan mid-level defence dialogue begins in Washington on Monday (today) to consider various options for strengthening ties between the two establishments.
The two military establishments have maintained close ties despite disagreements on political issues.
Last week, social media reports about the mid-level defence talks created an impression that Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir was visiting the United States. The hype created by the social media compelled ISPR DG Major General Ahmed Sharif to clarify that COAS was not visiting the United States.
On Twitter, the DG said Gen Asim was on an official visit to the UK from Feb 5 to Feb 10 in connection with the fifth Pakistan-UK Stabilisation Conference.
we need a parallel land route to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia & beyond. currently its via Iran and filled with uncertainties.
Terrain is utterly inhospitable; Wakhan corridor route is bereft of roads, at its narrowest it is less than 20km across. More importantly China is certain to counteract any action which leads to its physical separation from Pakistan.
^^ It is a strategic imperative to cut off the land corridor between Pakistan and China.
Absolutely inhospitable terrain is nothing new for us. We need to get the land even if a single blade of grass doesn't grow. Who knows, a few decades later, Afghanistan may actually eat up some parts of Pakistan like KP and parts of Balochistan and Wakhan may not be the only corridor around at that time.
If the question is "why to do it", then there is sufficient reason.
If the question is "how to do it", I don't foresee any immediate ways. But Bakis being Bakis will eventually try something foolish and give us a casus belli to make a grab for it. Or they just implode and make it easier for everyone.
NORTH WAZIRISTAN: One security forces personnel embraced martyrdom and 14 others, including civilians, sustained wounds when a convoy of security forces came under attack in Mir Ali sub-division of the North Waziristan district on Saturday.
The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Local officials said a convoy of security forces and employees of the Marri Petroleum Company was on its way from North Waziristan to Bannu when a rickshaw struck the forces’ vehicle in the Khajori area of the sub-division.
“This rickshaw was parked on the roadside in the middle of parked vehicles when it suddenly appeared and struck a vehicle of the security forces,” a local official said.
On Sunday, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah allowed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to arrest former finance czar Shaukat Tarin after the completion of an inquiry against him in the audio leak case.
On Saturday, the agency requested permission from the interior ministry to initiate legal proceedings against Mr Tarin and his detention, claiming that Shaukat Tarin's conversation was an attempt to derail the IMF deal and he wanted to harm the country's security and national interests.
Earlier, audio of PTI leader Shaukat Tarin surfaced in which he allegedly asked the Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa finance ministers to backtrack from the IMF commitments in order to pressurise the federal government.
srin wrote:^^^ There is rona-dhona starting on regarding the Baki wimmen being left out of WPL and why we yindoos need to pay jaziya to the Baki cricketers
India scored an extra four runs in their innings after umpire Jacqueline Williams accidentally allowed an extra seventh ball to be bowled in their seventh over of the innings against Pakistan.
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Monday increased natural gas prices in the range of 16 per cent to 112.32 pc with retrospective effect from Jan 1 for six months in a bid to raise an additional Rs310 billion from the majority of domestic and all other categories of consumers to secure early disbursement of $ 1.2 billion tranche.
The minimum slab for residential consumers before the increase was 50 units per month (0.5 hm3), which under the new price mechanism was reduced to 25 units. This means consumers with low consumption would be hit under the new price mechanism to collect maximum revenue from the bulk of domestic users.
A fixed rate of Rs 50 per month from protected consumers and Rs 500 from non-protected consumers will be collected in addition to the increase in gas prices.
The hike in gas tariff for industries, a major source of electricity generation, will push up the cost of production. The industrial sector will then pass on this increase to end-consumers. As a result, inflation will further increase in the months to come.
NORTH WAZIRISTAN / DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Eight people, including women, suffered injuries in a bomb attack on a vehicle carrying a wounded police official in the Ghulam Khan area along the border with Afghanistan on Sunday.
Unidentified people had attacked Assistant Sub-Inspector Aminullah inside his home at around 4am on Sunday.
Officials said the police official sustained injuries in the attack and was being shifted to the hospital in a car when a bomb near the vehicle went off.
“He was in the car and was about to be shifted when the explosion took place leaving eight people wounded,” a police official said, adding that two women were among the victims.
China has announced that it will be temporarily closing down the consular section of its embassy in Pakistan due to “technical issues”, local media reported.
security issues and killing of cheeni peoples in pukestan by TTP and the balochis has put the fear of god into the cheeni.
The cheeni have closed the consular section to show their extreme displeasure to the pakis.
This may be one way for others under the cheeni debt yoke to rid themselves of the hans
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The coalition government is going to table its money bill in the both houses of the parliament today to fulfill key demands of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Per the agenda, the National Assembly will meet at 3:30pm and Finance Minister Senator Ishaq Dar will present the Finance Supplementary Bill, 2023 in the lower house.
Sources told Dunya News that the bill is likely to be passed in one go in today’s sitting.
At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in a blast inside the Jaffar Express train in Punjab’s Chichawatni on Thursday morning, railways officials said.
Pakistan Railways spokesperson Babar Ali confirmed the injuries and casualties to Dawn.com over the phone. He said the nature of the blast was yet to be determined.
Ali added that the SP Railways had arrived at the blast site and would soon provide details regarding the incident.
Seeds sent along with a Chinese astronaut mission have been returned to Pakistan following a six-month-long stay aboard the Tiangong space station.
Pakistan sent sets of seeds from seven medicinal plant species to Tiangong aboard China's Shenzhou 14 spacecraft in June last year. The experiment sought to bring about beneficial mutations in the seeds' genes by exposing them to cosmic radiation and microgravity.
Shenzhou 14 and its crew returned to Earth on Dec. 4. A ceremony celebrating the return of plant seeds from Tiangong was held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Feb. 8.
The seeds are to aid Pakistan's research into developing more environmentally tolerant seeds. Pakistani scientists planned to plant these seeds and ordinary seeds at the same time to conduct comparative research on genes and growth characteristics, according to CCTV (opens in new tab).
China has itself long sent seeds into space in an effort to develop new varieties of crops with greater yields and adaptability.
The exercise is an example of international cooperation on the Tiangong space station, which will soon expand to seeing international experiments being sent to the three-module orbital outpost through a joint China-United Nations program. {TSP is always the Petri dish for Chinese international experiments, whether it is missiles, nuclear weapons, nuclear reactors, BRI, space, weapons, naval & air platforms etc.}
Beyond this, Pakistan has previously stated its intent to send its astronauts to Tiangong, though the Chinese side has yet to publicly confirm this will take place. The European Space Agency won't be sending its astronauts to China's space station anytime soon however, despite training exchanges in recent years.
NEW DELHI: Pakistan is no stranger to being berated on global platforms.
The Islamic nation's doublespeaks and dubious track records- including on security matters, harbouring terrorists and nuclear proliferation- have in the past earned it epithets like "international migraine," "pathological liar," and more. Now, it has been called "A cancer state in the name of Islam"- not by a western diplomat, but an Islamic terrorist organisation.
The Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), a regional affiliate of the dreaded Isis, has trained its guns on Pakistan’s religious scholars as well as its system of governance. In its ‘Khorasan Ghag’ magazine, ISKP has claimed that Pakistan is run by "an establishment which follows instructions from the United States."
To buttress the claim, it cited the example of Imran Khan's ascension to, and ousting from power. It said Khan was brought into power through rigging and removed after he visited Russia. It added that Pakistan army chief Gen Asim Munir's recent visit to US was to "take orders."
It has vowed to continue working against the Pakistani state and keep up its own agenda of jihad against "US agents."
The magazine also dedicated substantial space to a recent confrontation between pakistani scholar Mufti Taqi Usmani, a proponent of so called "Islamic banking," and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan's (TTP) Mufti Noor Wali.
Usmani had slammed Wali and TTP for acting against the Pakistani state.
Former prime minister Imran Khan announced on Friday that the party’s ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (court arrest drive) would commence from Lahore on February 22 (Wednesday).
Imran had announced the movement on February 5 after apparently running out of options to press the PML-N-led government to hold elections in two provinces — Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — and stop it from “political victimisation”.
In a televised address today, the PTI chairman said: “I am announcing, God willing, my ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ from Wednesday. I am telling my entire party today to prepare.”
He said that the movement would begin from Lahore before moving to other major cities in the country.
Meanwhile India generously invites Pakistanis -- but they give it a miss..
India showcases its IT hub to SCO national coordinators. TCS campus in Bangalore. (Pakistan delegation is the only country missing in this photo -- they did not want to see the TCS Campus.. )
So officially how many dead in the attack, why not Paki adopt Talibani rules, women need to be at home, no education, etc
To be applied in Karachi Islamabad, Lahore etc. Close all Cinemas and entertainment.
Aditya_V wrote:So officially how many dead in the attack, why not Paki adopt Talibani rules, women need to be at home, no education, etc
To be applied in Karachi Islamabad, Lahore etc. Close all Cinemas and entertainment.
Thats already the case west of Indus .. with the grace of all mighty this will become the case east as well..
