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Posts published in “Day: September 22, 2016

Interior Secy ordered to submit report on kidnapping: report in The News, Sept22, 2016

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court Wednesday directed the interior secretary to submit a comprehensive report over the kidnapping of IT expert Sajid Mahmood in one week. Justice Athar Minallah heard the case filed by Mahira Sajid wife of Sajid Mahmood over kidnapping of her husband from Sector F-10 Islamabad on March 14. The petitioner alleged that eight Elite Force personnel kidnapped her husband from nearby his home in the evening. During the course of proceedings,…

India’s intelligence war in Afghanistan: By Musa Khan Jalalzai in Daily Times, Sept 22, 2016

The writer is the author of Fixing the EU Intel Crisis Any intelligent state that wants to prevent its system from decaying needs statecraft, which is comprised on economic power, professional intelligence, a strong military and mature diplomacy. The case is quite different in India where emerging contradictions in the state system and failure of intelligence and internal security strategies generated a countrywide debate in which experts deeply criticised the waste of financial resources by…

AHPC confirm signing of peace deal with Hekmatyar on Thursday By KHAAMA PRESS – Wed Sep 21 2016

The Afghanistan High Peace Council (AHPC) confirmed the initial draft peace agreement between the Afghan government and Hezb-e-Islami led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will be signed on Thursday. AHPC said Wenesday that the initial draft peace agreement will be signed in the presence of media on Thursday. This comes as AHPC officials said Saturday that the peace agreement with Hezb-e-Islami party led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will be signed in coming two to three days. The peace…

Suicide attack organizer held with a would-be bomber by Afghan intelligence By KHAAMA PRESS – Wed Sep 21 2016

The Afghan intelligence operatives foiled a deadly suicide attack plot by arresting a suicide attack organizer along with a would-be bomber in southeastern Khost province. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the group was looking to target the government officials during Eid-ul-Adha. No further details were given regarding the exact time of the operation that led to the apprehension of the group but the raid was apparently carried out ahead of Eid holidays. A…

Chaman border closure leaves lasting effect: by SHAHZADA ZULFIQAR in Dawn September 22nd, 2016

CHAMAN: Though traffic flows normally across the Pak-Afghan border at Chaman today, a set of unfortunate incidents resulted in complete closure of the border for 14 days, with things returning to normal on Sept 1. The event had aggravated the already strained Pak-Afghan relationship, while also causing losses believed to be worth billions of rupees for traders and common people from both sides of the divide. The reason behind the border closure was that on…

Ishaq Dar meets Gen Raheel Sharif to discuss effective border management Report in Pakistan Today.Sept 21, 2016

Islamabad: Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar called on Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday (today) at General Headquarters. According to Inter Service Public Relations, financing matters related to capacity building for effective Pak-Afghan border management including raising of fresh 29 Civil Armed Forces wings were discussed. Earlier, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is due to address the United Nations (UN) General Assembly session today phoned Chief of the Army Staffs (COAS)…

Surgical strikes post-Uri?: by Imtiaz Gul in The Express Tribune, September 21st, 2016

The writer heads the independent Centre for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad and is author of Pakistan: Pivot of Hizbut Tahrir’s Global Caliphate Within hours of the Uri attack, many Indians began drumming up the idea of surgical strikes into Pakistan. This chorus takes one back to the outrage that the November 26, 2008 Mumbai attacks had caused across India. Then, the tone and tenor that most Indians, including some of their best writers such…

Pakistan- US Defense Consultative Group 25th meeting held Report in The Times of Islamabad, Sept 22, 2016

RAWALPINDI: (APP) United States-Pakistan Defense Consultative Group (DCG) in its 25th meeting here recognized the centrality of US-Pakistan bilateral security partnership to their overall bilateral relationship and acknowledged that continued cooperation remains vital to promoting peace, security and stability in the region and beyond. Pakistan’s delegation was led by Defense Secretary Lieutenant General (R) Zamir Ul Hassan Shah and the U.S. delegation was led by Ambassador David B. Shear, Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense…

Pakistan: statements of PM and COAS : edit in DailyTimes, Sept 21, 2016

Amidst vitriolic statements from Indian leadership over the attack on Indian brigade headquarters in Uri by armed militants and India’s attempts at shaping international opinion to vilify Pakistan, Prime Minister of Pakistan Mian Mohamed Nawaz Sharif and the military establishment have responded in their own manner. Prime Minister Sharif reached out to the international community by highlighting Indian excesses in the Indian-occupied Kashmir in his meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry and wrote…

Regional tensions: edit in Dawn, September 21st, 2016

IT is sensible advice at a time when common sense is in short supply in many parts of the region. Three former foreign secretaries and a former national security adviser have jointly framed a foreign policy and national security road map that ought to put this country and the region itself on a path towards stability and security. Their advice, as published in this newspaper yesterday: Pakistan must, for its own sake and for the…

The waiting game after Uri: by Michael Krepon in Dawn, Sept 21, 2016

Before the advent of nuclear weapon capabilities on the subcontinent, unresolved grievances over Kashmir resulted in wars. With the bomb’s appearance, unresolved grievances have led to mass casualty terrorism, crises and one limited conventional war. Crises have recurred because underlying grievances in both Pakistan and India are reaffirmed from one crisis to the next. So far, the most serious crises on the subcontinent were the 1999 Kargil War and the 2001-2 Twin Peaks crisis. These…