By Saman Indrajith in The Island, Nov 24, 2023Dissident SLPP MP Dullas Alahapperuma told Parliament yesterday that 27,000 soldiers had deserted during the past two years.Participating in the third reading debate on Budget 2024 under the defence ministry expenditure heads, the MP said that the enmasse desertion by service personnel should be taken seriously by the defence authorities. “There seems to be a serious problem here and it warrants immediate attention because there could be dangerous…
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by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Sept 11th, 2023• Minister says TTP using Afghanistan as launching padISLAMABAD: As Pakistan faces a surge in terrorist attacks, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Sunday downplayed the increase in militancy, saying there was no need for alarm as “a little surge [in terrorism] is not so big as to make us panic”. The statement by the interim minister came amid reports of almost daily skirmishes between the security…