The Dawn, Jan 1 RAWALPINDI, Dec 31: A United States-operated training facility for Pakistani security forces at the Police College Sihala has been closed for being vulnerable to terrorist attacks, a senior police officer told Dawn. College commandant Nasir Khan Durrani confirmed the closure, saying: “Yes, I have been verbally informed by the interior ministry about it.” American instructors had started training Pakistani police in counter-terrorism techniques at the facility in 2003. The presence of…
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed in The Dawn, Jan 1 ISLAMABAD: Weeks after denying that Pakistan had an extradition treaty with the United States, the government said on Thursday that the two countries had an accord for return of fugitives as per a 1973 notification. “We have an extradition treaty with the US,” Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at a media briefing. The US-Pakistan accord has roots in a US-UK treaty of 1932, which was…
The Dawn, Jan 1 GILGIT, Dec 31: Speaker Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) Wazir Baig has urged people to visit government offices without any hesitation for resolution of their problems as “officials are public servants not rulers”. Addressing a gathering on environment, organised by Gojal Rural Support Organisation, he said “conspiracies are afloat to steal treasures underneath the surface of Gilgit-Baltistan as the black mountains are full of natural resources”. Speaker Baig said that development was…