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    My enemy's enemy no longer a friend

    My enemy's enemy no longer a friend The Australian March 08, 2010 12:00AM But recent developments in this war suggest that military planners have finally realised the risks of this most dangerous of relationships. Army chief Ashfaq Kayani recently noted that a Taliban society at home...
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    A Civil War Among Afghanistan's Insurgents?

    A Civil War Among Afghanistan's Insurgents? By Tim McGirk / Kabul Monday, Mar. 08, 2010 The mujahedin insurgents who wrecked the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s went to war with one another after the Red Army had departed. But the Taliban and allied insurgents are skipping...
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    Pakistan F-16 Discussions 2

    There is another batch of PAF technical and ground staff currently being trained at Lockheed Martin, Fort Worth, Texas. I have heard that the number is around 60. I have not yet met any of them personally but many in the Fort Worth community have met them at Jummah prayer.
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    Controlling Pakistan's military

    Controlling Pakistan's military Asia Times Mar 9, 2010 By Syed Saleem Shahzad A Pashtu-speaking retired Pakistani general and a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Ehsan ul-Haq, was the eyes and ears of his then-chief of army staff, Musharraf, before the October...
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    Blast in Model Town, Lahore

    5 killed, 45 injured At least 600-kilogram explosives have been used in the blast RIP
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    Blast in Model Town, Lahore

    Five dead in Lahore blast Updated at: 0910 PST, Monday, March 08, 2010 LAHORE: At least four people were killed and 22 injured in a powerful blast in Lahore area of Model Town, which seemed to have targeted a government office, Geo News reported Monday. The deceased include two...
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    Now India and Pakistan Can Get Down to Business

    Now India and Pakistan Can Get Down to Business High-level talks in February, billed by some as a failure, actually set the stage for progress By NAJAM SETHI On initial appearances, the first high-level bilateral talks between India and Pakistan since November 2008 weren't a success...
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    Sky is the limit for Pakistan’s women fighter pilots

    Duplicate. Already posted.
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    France And The Radar Thieves

    Let me take a moment to thank taimikhan and adios amigo for their excellent rebuttal. I posted this article not as a derogatory but on a funny note as I was very amused when I read this and felt member might get kick out of it too. Not sure if it’s ignorance or jealousy or pure frustration on...
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    Sky is the limit for Pakistan’s women fighter pilots

    . Sky is the limit for Pakistan’s women fighter pilots Sunday, 07 Mar, 2010 In a country where extended family is important and most middle-class women rely on servants for household work and child-minding, Ambreen and Nadia may be saved some of the problems faced by women in...
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    France And The Radar Thieves

    . France And The Radar Thieves by James Dunnigan March 6, 2010 India and the United States are pressuring France not to allow Pakistan to buy advanced radars and other electronics for the Pakistani built JF-17 jet fighter. This is because China did most of the development on the JF-17...
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    903 FC men dismissed from service

    . 903 FC men dismissed from service Sunday, March 07, 2010 By Said Nazir Afridi BARA: The Frontier Constabulary (FC) dismissed as many as 903 personnel, who had conducted a successful operation in the Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar last week, for not fulfilling the order of their...
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    Please delete the thread I just opened. It's duplicate and I failed to search this time. Sorry...

    Please delete the thread I just opened. It's duplicate and I failed to search this time. Sorry and my appology. Thanks 'US accepts Pakistan as nuclear state: US media'
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    Girl explaining the problem of Pakistan

    . Girl explaining the problem of Pakistan YouTube - speech about Pakistan and Pakistani politicizes
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    Pakistan's Taliban War: Bringing Back the Music

    Pakistan's Taliban War: Bringing Back the Music By Tim McGirk / Peshawar Wednesday, Mar. 03, 2010 At his desk inside Bala Hissar, an ancient brick fortress that looms above the rooftops of Peshawar, General Tariq Khan heard an unusual sound drifting up. "It was music," says the general...
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    Pakistan Ordnance Factories facing financial crisis

    Pakistan Ordnance Factories facing financial crisis By Iftikhar A. Khan Thursday, 04 Mar, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF), the largest defence-industrial complex in the public sector, is facing a severe financial crisis, forcing it to cancel orders worth $500...
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    Bad two months for the Taliban

    . Bad two months for the Taliban March 3, 2010 I’ve lived in Pakistan for more than two years and this is the worst two-month stretch I’ve seen the Taliban suffer through during my stay. The Taliban are in a slump and much of it has to do with Pakistan’s top spy agency and Pakistani...
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    The VIP vice

    The VIP vice Wednesday, March 03, 2010 Anjum Niaz The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting Last Sunday on a PIA flight from Karachi to Islamabad, we had a VIP travel in the first-class cabin. When the flight...
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