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  • Four army officers including DG ISPR Asim Bajwa made three-star generals

    ISLAMABAD: A high-level promotion board on Tuesday approved promotion to the rank of Lieutenant-General of four Major-Generals including Director-General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-General Asim Bajwa...

    The board headed by Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif also promoted Major-General Amir Riaz, Major-General Sadiq Ali and Major-General Umar Farooq Durrani...

  • Army sentences two former generals in NLC corruption case

    RAWALPINDI: Two retired army generals and a civilian officer of the National Logistics Cell (NLC) were sentenced by an army court for violating NLC rules and regulations that caused financial losses to the organisation, a statement issued by military’s media wing said Wednesday...

    In light of findings of the inquiry committee, formed to probe irregularities with regards to the investment made by NLC, two accused retired generals — Maj...

  • 17 years on, NAB reopens case against three ex-army generals

    ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) decided on Tuesday to reopen a Rs2 billion corruption reference against four former senior army officers, including an ex-chief of the Inter-Services Intelligence, that remained dumped for more than a decade due to the anti-graft watchdog’s reluctance to act against military officers...

    The army officers are accused of transferring tens of hundreds of acres of prime railway land in...

  • US generals express concern over safety of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in wake of Taliban takeover of Afghanistan

    Top US generals are claiming that they had warned US President Joe Biden that a rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan could increase risks to Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and the country’s security...

    “We estimated an accelerated withdrawal would increase risks of regional instability, the security of Pakistan and its nuclear arsenals,” Chairman of the Joint Chief General Mark Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday... ...

  • US to send 450 more troops to Iraq on training mission

    WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama ordered the deployment of up to 450 more US troops to Iraq on Wednesday to advise and assist local forces in an effort to reverse the recent gains of the self-styled Islamic State group...

    Under the plan, the United States will open a fifth training site in Iraq, with the goal of integrating Iraqi Security Forces and Sunni fighters...

  • Accord with Russia signed for training of Pakistani troops

    ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Russia on Tuesday signed an agreement that allows for training of Pakistani troops at Russian military training institutes...

    “Both countries signed the Contract on Admission of Service Members of Pakistan in RF’s (Russian Federation) Training Insti­tutes,” the defence ministry said in a statement...

  • ‘Judges, generals should not be excluded from accountability laws’

    ISLAMABAD: The Ex-Servicemen Legal Forum (ESLF), an association of retired officers from the military’s Judge Advocate General (JAG) Branch, have expressed concerns about the exclusion of judges and generals from the ambit of the proposed national accountability commission (NAC)...

    Superior judiciary, army are not above the law, ex-servicemen’s forum says in resolutionThe parliamentary committee constituted to overhaul accountability...

  • Petition on accountability of judges and generals based on 'mala fide intent': SC objects

    The Supreme Court on Monday objected to a constitutional petition that sought the inclusion of the words sadiq and ameen (honest and righteous) in the text of oaths for the offices of judges and army generals...

    In the response, filed before the SC's Lahore registry, Barrister Zafarullah maintained that the absence of the words sadiq and ameen from the oaths of judges and generals was a violation of Articles 62 and 63 of the...

  • Report submitted to Supreme Court NAB director generals lack relevant experience

    MULTAN: A Supreme Court judgment in the inconsistent appointments in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) case can impact the appointments of five director generals (DGs), Dawn has learnt...

    “The post-experience certificate thus obtained cannot be deemed to be acquired purely in the field of investigation/inquiries/research or legal matters; it also does not indicate whether the same has been issued by the authority competent to...

  • Foreign minister chides America for policy shaped by 'frustrated' generals

    A day after lawmakers slammed US President Donald Trump's new South Asia policy, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif assured the Senate that their concerns had been heard and Pakistan's foreign policy would be devised keeping their guidelines in mind...

    Beginning his speech with an acknowledgement of Trump's assertion that "things have started getting better" in US-Pakistan relations, and thanking the American president for the endorsement,...

  • House divided over bringing judges, generals under ambit of new accountability law

    The Parliamentary Committee on National Accountability Law has failed to reach a consensus on the formation of National Accountability Commission over the clauses pertaining to its imposition on the provincial level, and to bring judges and generals under its ambit...

    He further said that the members associated with the PPP and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) will give their final nod to the proposed law after consulting with their...

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