Bomb AttacksFour security personnel were killed and two others injured in a landmine explosion in Surali area, some10 kilometers from Sui town of Dera Bugti District, on Janaury1, reports Daily Times. According to sources, a paramilitary troop vehicle was on routine patrol in Sui, when it hit a landmine planted by unidentified militants, killing four…
IntroductionDuring my service I had occasion to experience some invisible and mysterious power that some have dismissed with incredulous looks and smiles. For the interest of our learned readers I am appending below some events and leave judgment to them. Whose blood was that?During 1979 I was granted commission and posted to the battalion of…
Carey Schofield’s book on Pakistan army is another addition to the work done on Pakistan army. Carey was given unprecedented access by then Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and President General Pervez Mussharraf. She made several trips to Pakistan over five years time period and was given access to several senior generals and visited many…
Faced with unexpectedly stiff resistance from Pakistan Army, the Indian offensive launched on 6th September 1965 in the Lahore-Kasur sector had floundered badly. Having failed to capture the vital bridges on BRBi Canal, XI Corps formations were unfavourably poised for further offensive operations towards Lahore. On a similar note, though Pakistan Army’s counter-offensive spearheaded by…
For war was not just a military campaign but also a parable. There were lessons of camaraderie and beauty and inscrutable fate. There were lessons of honor and courage; of compassion and sacrifice. And then there was the saddest lesson to be learned again and again. That war is corrupting. That it corrodes the soul…
We are at a turning point in human history. Human culture had evolved in a comfortable period beginning 12,000 year ago known as the Holocene period. All our culture was built on the assumption that the Holocene will continue, with its relatively mild global climate. But we have already left the Holocene and have entered…
Dear Readers, It is our great misfortune that over the last many years numerous challenges have continued to pound the ramparts of the State while those in power have never done enough to stop the rot – domestic terrorism, economic meltdown compounded by rising oil prices and downward spike of the Rupee, alarming food shortage…
The NATO investigation about the Salala attack has been completed two days ahead of the scheduled date. The full text of the report is yet to be released but some of the key findings were revealed in a press briefing by the Pentagon. In essence it has concluded that the unfortunate incident was not deliberate…
India on Tuesday January 31, 2012, selected French jet Rafale over the Eurofighter Typhoon for the Indian Air Force, by nominating Dassault Aviation of France as the preffered bidder. After this gigantic military deal of $20 billion MMRCA (medium multi-role combat aircraft) procurement program the frantic search by Indian Air Force for a new 5th…
Drone and suicide bomber are new facets of warfare. Drone is a bomb without man and suicide bomber represents the man as a bomb. Drone is an innocent looking name given to an unmanned aircraft or a remotely piloted aircraft, incorporating the entire range of lethal weapons that a piloted aircraft could carry. Drone functions…
