by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, December 14th, 2023WASHINGTON: Chief of Army Staff Gen Asim Munir commenced his first working day in Washington on Wednesday with a meeting with the US defence secretary at the Pentagon. The Pentagon issued a brief statement after the meeting, saying: “Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III hosted Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir at the Pentagon today, where the two officials discussed recent regional security developments and…
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By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Dec 8, 2023Foreign Minister Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (07) said that the government could not do anything about the activities of ex-military officers overseas.Minister Sabry said so in response to The Island query whether the Sri Lankan law prohibited Sri Lankans from joining the armed forces of Ukraine. Three ex-military personnel including a former Special Forces officer serving with what is widely referred to as Ukrainian Foreign Legion aka…
by Shahin Rao in The Nation, Nov 23, 2023ISLAMABD – The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Wednesday summoned Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar, defence minister and others to appear in person on November 29 in a case related to the missing Baloch students. A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani conducted hearing of a case regarding the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry directed them to appear before…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Daily Morning, Oct 26, 2023While it is up to the Defence Ministry to decide whether to implement the Parliament’s Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on National Security’s recommendation to inform United States (US) Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung to refrain from making remarks regarding the internal affairs of Sri Lanka, the said SOC stated that their message has, however, reached the relevant parties. The said SOC had recently recommended the…
report on Nepalnews.com, July 24, 2023Member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Yuan Jiajun paid a courtesy call on Acting Prime Minister and Minister for Defense Purna Bahadur Khadka on Sunday. In the meeting held at the Ministry of Defence, Singha Durbar, Acting PM Khadka extended his best wishes to the visiting Chinese leader for assuming office some time ago and expressed his confidence that Nepal-China relations would…
by Shahzad Chaudhry in The Express Tribune, Dec 16th, 2022The writer is a political, security and defence analyst.Pakistan’s Afghan sore continues to bleed. As a policy, relations with Afghanistan have mostly bordered on superficial, aspirational and delusional. In search of an ideational chimera termed ‘strategic depth’ it has been a policy of unrealistic promise and zero return. The policy can essentially be divided over three phases. Till 1979 Afghanistan was a neighbour which shared ethnic…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Dec 16, 2022 Following the announcement of a general amnesty period by the Ministry of Defence to tri-forces absentees, over 15,000 military personnel have come forward to resign from their respective services. Speaking to The Morning, Army Spokesman Brigadier Ravi Herath said that these personnel are longstanding absentees. Out of 15,891 other rank officers who were absent and have reported to their regimental centres, 15,619 were given the clearance…
by Rashed Rahman in Business Recorder, Nov 20, 2022Outgoing COAS General Qamar Javed Bajwa in an address to the Defence and Martyrs Ceremony at GHQ on November 23, 2022 made an unprecedented admission about the army’s unconstitutional interference in politics for 70 years, while criticising the political parties for their errors, which include being intolerant towards rivals. Most of the latter criticism was aimed at the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) for crafting a “fake and false”…
By MAHADIYA HAMZA in EconomyNext, Nov 15, 2022 at 7:30 pmSri Lanka’s budget experts raised concerns over higher defence allocation in 2023 budget and said the move gives wrong signal on rationalizing the public spending. President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as the finance minister presented 2023 budget in the parliament on Monday (14) which was expected to signal the policies needed to move out of the county’s economic crisis including hard reforms to satisfy…