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Singapore’s military construction engineering teams to Afghanistan
SINGAPORE: Singapore is sending two military construction engineering teams to Afghanistan, the defence ministry said. In the tiny city-state’s latest military contribution to the area, 12 team members will be deployed in two groups over about six months in central Bamiyan province, the ministry said. They are to supervise construction of a regional health training [...]
Continue reading...Thousands flee as US military operation gets under way
2. May 2008
KABUL: Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and seek refuge in different parts of Helmand Province as a US military operation in and around Garamsar District against Taliban gets under way, provincial officials said. “Our preliminary reports indicate that more than 1,000 families [5,000-7,000 people] have left the area and more [...]
Continue reading...Minister directs PMAD to maintain strict financial discipline
28. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Defense, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar has directed the Pakistan Military Accounts Department (PMAD) to maintain strict financial discipline of defense-related transactions and ensure prompt and efficient payment to the concerned organizations. He stated this while chairing a meeting in Ministry of Defense to review the performance of PMAD. The Military Accountant General (MAG), [...]
Continue reading...Northrop Grumman KC-45: Why We Won - Mission Capability
28. April 2008
By Azhar Masood The U.S. Air Force found Northrop Grumman’s bid to build the next generation of aerial refueling tankers superior to Boeing’s in four of the five most important selection criteria. Despite this fact, the losing bidder wants the Government Accountability Office to overturn the Air Force decision to award the contract to Northrop Grumman. Coming [...]
Continue reading...New Star War
26. April 2008
By azhar Masood Russia’s rearmament program, approved in 2006 for a period until 2015, provides for supplying modern weapons to its armed forces. One of them is the Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback fighter-bomber, which will replace the Sukhoi Su-24 Fencers. The process has begun, but some say the replacement is taking too long. The new fighter-bomber is [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan Defense Industries Attract Buyers
24. April 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan Defense Industries attracted many buyers and finalized business deals with Indonesia and Australia, while business deals with number of other countries entered into an advance stage. During the four days Defense Asia Exhibition which concluded in Kuala Lumpur, today, defense delegates from Philippine, Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar, Poland, India, Bangladesh, Japan Singapore and [...]
Continue reading...The Evolution Of Weaponry Is Truly Darwinian
21. April 2008
By Azhar Masood Even the B-52 and the C-130 pale in longevity compared with Russia’s Tupolev Tu-95 Bear. Charles Darwin was right — at least for weapons systems: Principles of evolution and the struggle for survival of the fittest apply there all the time. Weapons systems have to keep evolving. And when they can’t evolve any more [...]
Continue reading...Another space intelligence race
16. April 2008
By Azhar Masood NASA’s Terrestrial Planet Finder is one of several instruments intended to detect planets around other stars. If Watson’s model is correct, even if some of those planets turn out to be Earth-like, they’re unlikely to host intelligent life. Credit: NASA/JPL Advanced ground and space-based telescopes are discovering new planets around other stars almost daily, [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan to participate at Defence Services Asia 2008
15. April 2008
Azhar Masood ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is all set to setup a pavilion in the International Defence SERVICES ASIA (DSA) 2008 exhibition to be held in Kaula Lumpur Malaysia, from 21st to 24th April, 2008. Pakistan defence industry will have one of the biggest presence in the exhibition and would introduce wide variety of defence [...]
Continue reading...Senate takes suo motto notice of amended Army Act 1952
9. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has taken suo-moto notice of the amended Army Act 1952 under PCO, which permits investigation and trial of civilians by the armed forces. The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights met at the Parliament House on Wednesday under the Chairmanship of Senator S. M. Zafar to discuss [...]
Continue reading...Pakistan, China to further boost cooperation
9. April 2008
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and China have reiterated their desire to further expand and consolidate bilateral cooperation in the areas of trade, economy and defence. This was discussed at a meeting between Federal Minister for Defence, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar and the Chinese ambassador to Pakistan Luo Zhao Hui, who called on the Minister here at the Parliament [...]
Continue reading...Pak, Sri Lanka liberalize ASA: MOU signed
9. April 2008
RAWALPINDI: Delegation of the Governments of Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka met here Wednesday to liberalize the existing Air Services Agreement (ASA) between the two countries. Pakistan delegation was led by Major General Mir Haider Ali Khan, Additional Secretary-I. Ministry of Defence, whereas the Sri Lankan delegation was headed [...]
Continue reading...NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge - US Winners Announced
9. April 2008
By Azhar Masood NAVTEQ has announced during an awards ceremony at CTIA WIRELESS 2008 that Ten 23 is the Grand Prize Winner of this year’s NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge — Americas. As the Grand Prize Winner, Ten 23 received a prize package valued at $525,000, including $50,000 in cash, $225,000 in NAVTEQ data licenses and [...]
Continue reading...Army well equipped to thwart any danger: Kayani
12. December 2007
KHARIAN: Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that Pakistan Army is well equipped, highly motivated and fully capable to defeat all dimensions of conventional and unconventional threat posed to security and integrity of the country. Addressing officers at Garrison here on Wednesday, he said that it is harmonization of socio-political, administrative [...]
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