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...
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...
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...
Six major generals have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) announced on Wednesday...
In June, Nigar Johar became Pakistan's first female officer to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament approved a law on Saturday that will transform Popular Mobilisation forces, a mostly Iranian-backed coalition of Shia militias that played a role in fighting the militant Islamic State group, into a legal and separate military corps...
All the Shia blocs in parliament voted for the bill in a session boycotted by lawmakers from the Sunni minority who object to the existence of armed forces outside the army...
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... ...
ISLAMABAD: Thousands of Shias protested in Pakistan and Indian-held Kashmir on Sunday to condemn Saudi Arabia's execution of a leading Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr, as fury over the killing spread...
ISLAMABAD: Hundreds of people joined a Shia-led protest in Islamabad on Friday against the government's decision to join Saudi Arabia's 34-country coalition against extremism, as Riyadh's foreign minister ended a two-day visit to the country...
The protesters presented a memorandum to the Foreign Office spokesman demanding Pakistan to drop out of the alliance, which was announced in December and is seen as the latest sign of a more...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
ISLAMABAD: Amid criticism for withdrawing the proposal to bring the superior judiciary and armed forces under the ambit of a new accountability law, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) has come up with a justification that it took the decision to avoid a clash among institutions...
The ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), however, is keeping its cards close to its chest and has not yet expressed its opinion on the matter of...
A petition has been filed in Supreme Court's Lahore registry to include the words sadiq and ameen (honest and righteous) to the oaths taken by judges and army generals after their appointments...
Muhammad Anwar on behalf of Barrister Zafarullah Khan of the Watan Party, the petition states that accountability is being applied discriminately to civilians in Pakistan while judges and generals "are being sheltered and protected and...