Taliban officials call for urgent help as rescuers try to save people trapped in debris in the wake of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Herat province.
The death toll from powerful earthquakes in western Afghanistan is estimated to be 2,000, a senior Taliban leader said, adding that the number...
Pakistan to pay Britain Rs42b for O-level exam
Precious foreign exchange continues to outflow as PKR plunges
Due to the consistent deterioration of the local education standards and currency devaluation, foreign exchange worth billions of rupees are moving out of Pakistan as the fees...
Irrespective of expats and dual nationals literally financing and supporting the country through remittances and other activities etc, my point is that when they take other nationality, they commit an oath to be loyal to that country and in case of British and other commonwealth nations, they...
Advanced Drone Tech Poses Threat to Special Forces in Middle East
10/31/2022
By Stew Magnuson
Gen. Bryan P. Fenton
Stew Magnuson photo
AQABA, Jordan — The leader of U.S. Special Operations Command on Oct. 31 joined several Middle East military officers in expressing his concern about terrorist...
By JULIET LINDERMAN, CLAIRE GALOFARO and MARTHA MENDOZA
The young Afghan couple raced to the airport in Kabul, clutching their baby girl close amid the chaotic withdrawal of American troops last year.
The baby had been rescued two years earlier from the rubble of a U.S. military raid that...
A drone exploded at a structure in the Parchin military technology complex on Wednesday. The attack fit a pattern of past Israeli strikes on Iran.
Missiles on display in Tehran in January. Iran develops weapons technology at the nearby Parchin military complex, which was struck on...
For those who are participating, have you thought of participating as a group? Maybe those PDF members who live in same city can get together.
P.S: Poll and thread for Pakistanis only.
@Norwegian you in Pakistan? Otherwise how will you participate in Islamabad? I want honest polling yaar.
Israel to Hold Military Exercise Simulating Large-Scale Attack on Iran
The Israeli Air Force plans to conduct a military exercise later this month simulating a large-scale strike on Iran, according to The Times of Israel.
The drill, dubbed...
China-Pakistan Defence Ties
China and Pakistan relations date back to 1951 when both nations diplomatically established formal relations. In March 1963, both nations settled the disputed boundary through talks and reaffirmed commitment to strengthen their ties. Pakistan was an ally of the...
Pakistan Air Force: Punching Above Its Weight
Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah on a visit to the flying school of then RPAF located at Risalpur on 13 April 1948 said,
“A country without a strong Air Force is at the mercy of any aggressor. Pakistan must build up her Air Force as quickly as...
Pakistan set to participate in ITF's wheelchair team competitions
KARACHI: Pakistan is all set to participate in International Tennis Federation’s wheelchair team competitions in Turkey and Asian Paralympics Games in China later this year.
“One of our goals is to take part in ITF’s wheelchair...
By Faras Ghani
Published On 14 Jan 202214 Jan 2022
When Tariq Saeed was hit by a cricket ball just above his right eye, the life of then-college student underwent a remarkable change.
Up until then, Saeed wanted to play cricket, do well at it and perhaps one day represent Pakistan, a dream of...
RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s first female general, Nigar Johar, who in November was appointed colonel commandant of the Army Medical Corps, has hailed Saudi Arabia for introducing “commendable” reforms for the welfare of women.
Lt. Gen. Johar joined the Army Medical College in 1981 and graduated...
Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry announced on Friday that government has decided to allow permanent residency scheme for foreign nationals and linked it with their investment in the real estate sector.
In line with the country’s first-ever National Security...
A major problem was that the Indians would not want to be “frozen into [a] position of nuclear inferiority” vis-à-vis China. Moreover, the Indians believed that assistance would have to be given to a Pakistani peaceful nuclear program, a “prospect which India would find very worrisome.” In...
Note 1: All JF 17 BLK 1 are considered upgraded to BLK II standard. All Dual Seater Thunder versions are considered to be Block II-B.
Note 2: (-) Minus sign depicts written off.
Note 3: (==>) Arrow sign shows both written off and depleted current strength.
The ratio stands at ≈ 1.8:1...
President Biden hosted Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, forging closer ties between two leading Indo-Pacific powers, the United States and India. As the world’s oldest and largest democracies, the United States and India are committed to values of freedom, pluralism, openness, and respect for...
Fighting is raging around three major cities in southern and western Afghanistan as Taliban militants seek to seize them from government forces.
Taliban fighters have entered parts of Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar.
They have made rapid gains in rural areas since it was announced almost all...
Asad Toor Affair: Exposed Unprofessionalism of Pakistani Media
Editor Global Village Space examines how this episode has exposed media's unprofessionalism, country's civil military fault lines and failure of state institutions to provide protection to common citizens and women against...