by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 3, 2023Reacting to yesterday’s (2) announcement that the Government would release 108 acres of land in the North today (3), the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) noted that the decision to release these lands was taken as far back as 2018 and that the Army had even vacated the lands although the lands had not been handed over to the people in the North by the time the administration…
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report in Dawn, January 27th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army and police launched a joint search operation against terrorists in a forest along the Kurram River near Lakki Marwat city on Thursday. Official sources told Dawn that a large contingent of military and police personnel was dispatched to the riverside area o a tip-off about the presence of terrorists. They said that those personnel went to the area in the wee hours of the day…
Report in Dawn, Jnuary 24th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT/KHYBER: A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred in a bomb blast in Bannu and a suspected militant was killed in a joint operation in Khyber tribal district on Monday. A local official told Dawn that an improvised explosive device (IED) was planted by militants in the Janikhel area of Bannu district and it exploded when it was being defused by the bomb disposal unit. “The [explosive] device went off…
by Baqir Sajjad Syed in Dawn, Dec 29, 2022• In first meeting chaired by new army chief, commanders vow to ‘act against terrorists without distinction’• Restructuring, re-deployments said to be on the table amid talk of austerity measures ISLAMABAD: The army on Wednesday signalled a strong response to the country’s escalating terrorism problem. The corps commanders at their monthly conference at the General Headquarters — the first after the change of command last month, according…
report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 22, 2022The Supreme Court has issued a short-term interim order against the Nepal Army’s invitation to award the contract of the sixth package of the Kathmandu-Nijgadh Fast Track project to a Chinese company—China First Highway Engineering Company Limited. After hearing the writ petition registered by advocate Rojan Khadka on behalf of an Indian company—Afcons Infrastructure Limited, a single bench of justice Tanka Bahadur Moktan issued the interim order valid…
by Zahid Hussain in Dawn, December 21st, 2022The writer is an author and journalist.THE events of the past week present a theatre of the absurd. Hours after Imran Khan announced his long-awaited decision to dissolve the Punjab Assembly, Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi made it clear that he was not on board. Khan’s outburst against his erstwhile benefactor, former army chief retired Gen Bajwa, apparently was the reason for breaking his vows. It may not…
By Mosharraf Zaidi in The News, Nov 29, 2022The writer is an analyst and commentator……….It would be nice to be able to say that Pakistan is turning the page today as a new chief of army staff (COAS) takes command in Rawalpindi. Such naivete may be forgivable for those with a memory that is shorter than six years. For all other Pakistanis, it is not only not possible to turn the page so easily, but…