Pak Army:No New Operations This Year
January 22, 2010 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com Pak Army:No New Operations This Year:ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will not start any new operation against terrorists this year, said spokesperson for Pakistani army.
Pakistan army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told a British channel that new fronts against terrorists will not be open in next one year. The Pakistan army is engaged in [...]
Pak Army HQ Attack Exposes Extremist Threat: Hillary Clinton
LONDON: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the militant attack on Pakistan’s army headquarters Saturday served to underline the extremist threat to the Islamabad government.
Clinton, who arrived in London, late Saturday as part of her five-day European tour, said the measures being taken to root out extremists in Pakistan were “very important”.
Militants were holding up to 15 people hostage after a bid to storm the army headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi left six soldiers and four attackers dead, Pakistani officials said.
Clinton told reporters she had been briefed about the attack.
She said she wanted to “point out this shows the continuing threats to the Pakistani government and the very important steps that the civilian leadership, along with the military, are taking to root out the extremists and prevent violence and direct assaults on the sovereignty of the state.”
Up to 10 suspected Taliban gunmen in military uniform armed with automatic weapons and grenades drove up to the compound and shot their way through one check post.
Pak Army HQ Attack Exposes Extremist Threat: Hillary Clinton was first posted on October 11, 2009 at 11:06 am.
Power Supply Suspends In Diffrent Parts Of Country During Sehri
KARACHI, PAKISTAN: Despite government claims, electricity supply remained suspended at Sehri hours in different parts of the country, piling miseries on the people.
The federal government had announced no load shedding at Sehar and Iftar hours, but on the very first day of the holy month of Ramazan different cities and towns all across the country including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Sukkur went through the irksome suspension of electricity at the Sehri hours.
Islamabad area I-10, Karachi’s Delhi Colony, Gulburg, Nohammad Ali Town, Kot Lakhpat and Sandra in Lahore, while many parts of Sukkur remained deluged in darkness causing inconvenience to the citizens in making arrangements for the Sehi on the first day of fasting month.
District Karak including North Waziristan and Parachanar also suffered the power outage during Sehri hours.
Power Supply Suspends In Diffrent Parts Of Country During Sehri was first posted on August 23, 2009 at 11:11 am.
Kim Dae-jung’s State Funeral Hold By SKorea
SEOUL: Tens of thousands of mourners filled the lawn outside parliament for the state funeral Sunday of ex-President Kim Dae-jung, a longtime defender of democracy and advocate of reconciliation who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reach out to communist North Korea.
The funeral was held at the National Assembly where Kim — who endured torture, death threats and imprisonment during his decades as an opposition leader — triumphantly took the oath of office as South Korea’s president in 1998.
The mourning for Kim, who died Tuesday at age 85, lasted six days and included a high-level North Korean delegation.
The Pyongyang delegation’s visit included talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak hours before the funeral, Lee’s first high-level contact with the regime since taking office. Ties have been tense between the two Koreas since the conservative Lee became president in February 2008, but the talks Sunday with officials bearing a verbal message from Kim Jong Il were “cordial,” according to a presidential spokesman.
The two Koreas remain in a state of war because their three-year conflict ended in 1953 in a truce, not a peace treaty. Tanks and troops still guard the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone dividing the two sides.
Kim Dae-jung, however, was respected on both sides of the border. As president from 1998 to 2003, his “Sunshine Policy” advocated engaging the isolated, nuclear-armed North, and sought to ease reconciliation by plying the impoverished nation with aid.
He traveled to Pyongyang in 2000 for a historic summit with Kim Jong Il — a first between leaders from the two Koreas. Raising their hands aloft in a sight that would have been unimaginable just years earlier, the two Kims pledged to embark on a new era of peace on the Korean peninsula.
The following years saw a flowering of reconciliation projects, including the emotional reunions of thousands of Koreans separated from family members during the Korean War, the restoration of a cross-border cargo train and inter-Korean business ventures.
Kim Dae-jung’s State Funeral Hold By SKorea was first posted on August 23, 2009 at 1:51 pm.
SLanka Will Train Pak Army
LONDON: After its success in defeating the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan army has agreed to train Pakistani military in tackling insurgency and offered the same to India.
The Sri Lankan army’s new commander, Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya told British radio that Pakistan had already asked if it could send its military cadets to train in counter-insurgency operations.
“We’ll give a favourable response,” Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said of the request.
He said “Sri Lanka has offered similar training, through diplomatic channels, to other countries including India, the United States, Bangladesh and the Philippines.”
The Sri Lankan military envisaged specialist courses lasting up to six weeks, directed towards small groups from interested armies, he added.
Lt Gen Jayasuriya said there was external interest in how the military had defeated the rebel group in practical terms. The army now wished to construct a written military doctrine in English.
SLanka Will Train Pak Army was first posted on August 23, 2009 at 1:55 pm.
