Kuwait may host US Iraq backup force
September 11, 2011 by Trend PK
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The troops will be kept as a backup or rotational training force for Iraq, after the Pentagon completes the scheduled withdrawal of its current 45,000-strong force from Iraq in December, US officials said.
The proposal, not yet announced, is among a number of options the administration is considering for extending its military training role in still-violent Iraq, whose divided government has been reluctant to ask Washington directly to keep troops on its soil beyond this year.
All troops are to leave Iraq by Dec. 31 under a 2008 security agreement, but senior US officials worry that without more training the Iraqi forces may squander hard-won security gains. The Iraqi army, for example, is only now taking delivery of US battle tanks, on which they have yet to be trained.
Iraq s security forces are improving but still lack the capability to defend fully Iraqi air space, borders and territorial waters, US military officers say.
“There are some gaps in their military capabilities, their security capabilities, that we believe we could offer some assistance with,” Navy Capt. John Kirby, a spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Thursday. Discussions with the Iraqis on this are in an early stage, Kirby added.
The Obama administration favors a proposal that would leave 3,000 to 5,000 US troops in Iraq next year to train Iraqi forces, US officials said this week. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because Iraq has not yet asked for any extension of forces.
It has not previously been reported that staging US forces in Kuwait as a part of that training mission, or possibly along with that mission, is being considered. One of the US officials said the administration would foresee the Kuwait arrangement lasting for three years, starting in 2012, with troops rotating into Iraq for six-month stints. No decisions have been made, and it was not clear whether direct talks with the Kuwaiti government have begun.
Kuwait has played a pivotal role in the Iraq war from its beginning. The bulk of US ground forces launched the invasion from Kuwaiti territory in March 2003, and the tiny Gulf state has served as a transit point for coalition supply convoys and air transport throughout the conflict. The US uses Kuwaiti air and land bases and maintains a small force in the country now. The Iraq backup forces would be besides that contingent.
BB murder case: Court grants bail to accused officers
Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi Judge Rana Nisar Ahmed has approved the petition filed for bail of former City Police Officer Saud Aziz and former SP Khurram Shahzad in Shaheed Benazir Bhuttos murder case.
Earlier, both the officers appeared before the court and assured the latter of consistent appearance on orders and submitted Rs0.1million bonds. It merits to mention that FIA filed a petition in the court that BBs security officer CPO Saud Aziz changed her security at the eleventh hour, which caused her murder. While SP Khurran Shahzad told a court that Aziz forced him to change his duty venue.
Dr. Imran Farooq’s funeral procession arrangements finalized
November 5, 2010 by Trend PK
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Staff Report
KARACHI: The local leaders of Mutahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the officials of Karachi’s Quid-e-Azam Internation Airport have finalized the security arrangements for the arrival of remains and the procession of Dr. Imran Farooq’s funeral.
To finalize the security arrangements, a combined meeting of the officers of Airport Security Force (ASF), the officers of Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and MQM leaders, Babr Ghauri and Rauf Siddiqui, was held in the Civil Aviation Headquarter.
The meeting decided that on the morning of November 6, from 7.00am, the security of all routes from Star Gate to old terminal will be handed over to the volunteers of MQM.
The airport officials will issue two hundred security passes for the volunteers of MQM to go to the old terminal to perform their assigned security duties on November 6.
The funeral
Ten ministries to be exterminated by January: PM
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani has said that 10 federal ministries would be exterminated by January, 2011. He added that the government does not want a confrontation with the judiciary. Nothing would happen on 13th October, he said.
Talking to journalist in Islamabad the Prime Minister said that judiciary wants democracy to nourish and flourish. He said that those who dream and prophecy of the dismissal of government, would be disappointed. Situation is not disappointing like that of 1980s and 1990s, he added. Prime Minister expressed the governments desire to see the institutions develop and gain strength. He further said that he does not enjoy the power of appointing chairman NAB. PM told that he counseled with Raza Rabbani on the issue who briefed him that chairman NAB is not a constitutional designation; in fact its the prerogative of the President to appoint chairman NAB. PM also told the journalists that the government is patronizing meritocracy and the promotions given to the officers today are symbolic of this stance.
Court annuls warrants against Turkish coup suspects
August 7, 2010 by Trend PK
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ISTANBUL: An Istanbul court Friday annulled an arrest warrant issued against 102 Turkish officers, including 25 serving generals and admirals, over an alleged 2003 coup plot, a news agency reported.
The court accepted the request for the annulment of the warrant filed by the officers” lawyers, agency reported without providing details of the judge”s decision.
The warrant was issued against the officers on July 23 after the discovery of an alleged coup plan codenamed Operation Sledgehammer.
The plot was reportedly hatched shortly after the Justice and Development Party (AKP), an offshoot of a banned Islamist movement, took power in Turkey in 2002.
The arrival of the AKP to power raised concerns among a significant portion of society and the military, which sees itself as the guardian of the secular nature of the Turkish state and which has unseated four governments since 1960.
The plotters allegedly planned to bomb mosques and provoke tensions with neighbouring Greece to spark political unrest and shape public opinion in favour of a military coup, before seizing power.
The alleged mastermind of the plot, former First Army commander and four-star general Cetin Dogan, was arrested last month and hospitalised the following day for heart problems.
He has denied the charges, arguing that papers from a contingency plan based on a scenario of domestic unrest had been doctored to look like a coup plot.
Top Indian Naval officer dies in accidental firing
July 7, 2010 by Trend PK
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NEW DELHI: The third senior most officer of the Indian Navy was killed in an accidental firing during a training session at its southern Naval base in Kochi on Wednesday.
The Navy has ordered a Court of Inquiry (CoI) into the accidental death of Rear Admiral SS Jamwal, who was the Chief-of-Staff of the Southern Naval Command in Kochi.
As per reports, SS Jamwal was shot dead in an accidental firing when the officers of the Southern Naval command were being trained in the firing range of INS Dronacharya in Kochi.
The tragic incident has come as a major shock for the Naval forces and a CoI probe is likely to throw light on the sequence of events leading to the death of Rear Admiral Jamwal.
Baghdad bombs kill three, including Iraqi general
June 29, 2010 by Trend PK
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BAGHDAD: Bombers killed three people in Baghdad on Tuesday, one of them an Iraqi general, as insurgents sabotaged a key oil pipeline on the northern outskirts of the capital, security officials said.
The general, whom police identified only by his first name Khodr, was blown up by a magnetic bomb in Aden Square in the Shiite shrine district of Kadhimiya in the north of the city.
A second magnetic bomb killed one person and wounded two outside an army officers” club in Al-Hurriya in northwest Baghdad, police said. There was no immediate word on whether the casualties were soldiers or civilians.
A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded four in a car in the southern district of Dora, police said.
Saboteurs blew up the oil pipeline in Rashidiyeh district on the northeastern fringes of the capital, Baghdad operations command said.
A major pipeline links an oil refinery and power station in Dora with the northern town of Baiji, another refining and power generating hub that is a key junction point on the supply network from Iraq”s northern oil fields around Kirkuk.
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June 13, 2010 by Trend PK
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Rehman Maliks pleas against sentences rejected
Lahore High Court has rejected the appeals filed by Federal Interior Minister Rehman A Malik challenging the sentences announced by accountability courts in different references on Monday.
It should be mentioned that Accountability courts declared three-year sentences for not appearing in two different cases. At the outset of the case, the court suspended his sentences on his plea and granted him bail.
The legal experts said the sentences meted out to Malik stood as restored technically after his appeals for the repeal of the sentences were discharged by the court and he might be arrested.
Intra-institutional clash imminent: Haroon Rashid
Senior analyst Haroon Rashid, while talking to Dunya News, noted that Rehman Malik is a burden for the government in wake of courts decision.
He feared that clash among the institution is imminent, adding that the government should be aware of the fact that the public endorsed courts and not the former in this regard.
Rehman could be nabbed: Khalid Ranjha
Senior legal expert Khalid Ranjha, while talking to Dunya News, said that Rehman Malik could be arrested after the court decision. He maintained that the ruling showed that the judiciary is free and could not be pressurized. He, however, added that only the apex court could suspend the ruling, but Supreme Court could only accept the plea only after Rehman surrenders.
Rawalpindi: Formation commanders meeting underway at GHQ
Pakistan Armys formation commanders conference is underway under the chair of Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at GHQ, Rawalpindi.
According to sources, all formation commanders, principal staff officers and corps commanders attending the moot. The moot would review in detail the results of recently concluded Pakistan Army’s exercises.
The Army Promotion Board meeting will be held on third day of the conference to approve promotions of the officers to the ranks of Colonel and Brigadier.
