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Can India be a great power? By Dr Haider Mehdi | Published: February 2, 2010 Part II It was Mahatma Gandhi who once said: “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” Centuries before Gandhi, the Roman poet Virgil had stated: “Anger carries the...

Obama seeks boost in Pakistan aid Adam Entous and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON Mon Feb 1, 2010 1:40pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday proposed a half-billion-dollar increase in funding next year to help train and equip Pakistani security forces to fight...

Who’s who in the Pakistan Taliban New reports surfaced Sunday that Pakistan Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died after a US drone attack Jan. 14. A look at other senior figures in the group. By Issam Ahmed Correspondent / February 1, 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan Questions resurfaced...

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A nation takes off By Huma Yusuf Monday, 01 Feb, 2010 Pakistani planes, both military and commercial, have come to symbolise national identity, in good times as well as bad. Pakistani history can be charted through flights that have landed, crashed, been shot down, or hijacked on this...

Part II The upgradation and expansion of road infrastructure was yet another milestone. The six-lane highway from Seoul to Pusan, the southern port city, was again completed in record time during that period with several industrial zones established in various parts of the country, all having...

Learning from Korea Part I Saturday, January 30, 2010 Javed Masud This article has been provoked by the observations and analysis of your distinguished columnist Shafqat Mahmood, based on his recent visit to South Korea, as published in The News of November 27, 2009. Mr Mahmood...

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Wasted aid Dawn Editorial Sunday, 31 Jan, 2010 And we wonder why our friends abroad are so hesitant to help Pakistan in its time of need. USAID’s inspector general recently posted audits of two Washington-funded programmes collectively worth $145m that apparently yielded little or...

T-50: (PAK-FA) A Preliminary Analysis Posted by Bill Sweetman at 1/29/2010 10:07 AM CST Well, this brings back the old days when Flug Revue would pop out some over-the-fence shots obtained from the Military Missions in East Germany, and the assembled reptiles at Flight would adjourn to...

Nishant UAV Crashlanded during a Test Flight Sunday, January 31, 2010 An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Nishant, which was on a test flight, crashlanded in an agricultural land at Chikkatumutagiri in Bangarpet taluk on Friday following technical problem. The UAV was scheduled to land at...

Weby: Why I get the error message when uploading a pic: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 12000 bytes) in /home/defence/public_html/gallery/image-inc.php on line 116 Regards

Lecturing Pak to accept Indian domination Dr Raja Muhammad Khan Following the US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the people of Pakistan remained apprehensive about its role and future designs in South and Southwest Asia. Majority of analysts believe that the US has a long-term...

Why PAF did not opt for Mirage-2000 in 1990's - some explanation that I found After the re-evaluation of Mirage-2000 in the early 90s, it was deduced that Mirage-2000 is a state of the art, deep strike fighter with BVR technology, but in turning dogfights at medium and low altitudes it was...

I read this with graet interest that Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft will be jointly designed by Russia and India. However, I do have few questions as follows for Indian readers as India joined the project after the plane had already been designed: 1. What will India provide to the project...

China protests US arms sales, warns of 'serious' impact Updated at: 0200 PST, Saturday, January 30, 2010 WASHINGTON: China on Friday protested the US decision to sell 6.4 billion dollars in weapons to Taiwan and warned of "serious" damage to relations and cooperation with Washington...

Very interesting debate and both sides have put forward some valid facts to get across their point of view. However, I do have some questions as follows for the experts: 1. As we all know, technology has created improved weapon systems, but at the same time has dramatically increased the...

US announces $6B arms sale to Taiwan Jan 29, 3:29 PM (ET) WASHINGTON (AP) - In a move sure to aggravate China, the Obama administration on Friday announced plans for more than $6 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the self-governing island the Chinese claim as their own. The sale would...

Weby: I uploaded a pic which had mark from another site. Would you please delete that. The pic is for Wng Cmdr Shahid Latif with F-16. Thanks

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