Sen. Levin moves to block Blackwaters $1 billion Afghanistan contract
By The Associated Press
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
A senior Senate Democrat said Thursday the Pentagon should consider barring Blackwater, now called Xe Services, from a new $1 billion deal to train Afghan police...
Controversial contractor eligible for lucrative new Pentagon bids
By Suzanne Simons and Mike Mount,
CNN
February 26, 2010 4:47 p.m.
Washington (CNN) -- Despite revelations in a congressional investigation of a subsidiary's mismanagement and questionable vetting of employees, the company...
Blackwater: Company Non Grata in Pakistan
For months, the Pakistani media has been flooded with stories about Blackwater's alleged growing presence in the country. For the most part, these stories have been ignored by the US press and denounced as lies or propaganda by US officials in...
The Counterterrorism Tag Team in Karachi
The covert JSOC program with Blackwater in Pakistan dates back to at least 2007, according to the military intelligence source. The current head of JSOC is Vice Adm. William McRaven, who took over the post from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC...
The Secret US War in Pakistan
By Jeremy Scahill
At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted...
History of Blackwater
In the late 1990s, Erik Prince spent part of his inherited wealth to purchase about 6,000 acres (24 km2) of the Great Dismal Swamp, a vast swamp on the North Carolina/Virginia border, now mostly a National Wildlife Refuge. Here he created his state-of-the-art private...
THE Supreme Court the other day had a word of praise for the parliamentary committee on constitutional reforms keen eye in detecting that the word freely had been deleted from the text of the Objectives Resolution.
In its original form, the resolution required the state to make adequate...
QUETTA: Chief Minister of Balochistan Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani dismissed the Minister for minority affairs Jaffer George from his office, Geo News reported Sunday.
According to government sources, the Balochistan CM sacked the minority affairs minister on receipt of report from the...
THE announcement of Sindhs Rs442bn budget for 2010-11 has been met with a mix of hope and trepidation. Though there has been a significant increase in the development outlay, there is also a Rs25bn deficit. Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah assured the assembly on Friday that additional...
PUBLIC land like parks should be run by public entities. This was the gist of the 62-page Supreme Court verdict on private development/commercial activities in a major Islamabad park. The verdict on Fatima Jinnah Park reinforces a 2006 SC ruling directing the Capital Development Authority to...
We expected better from a popularly elected government that had promised to ease the misery of the people. Its predecessor was the product of a military dictators tailored democracy in which government officials were answerable only to one man.
The current administration, in sharp...
Try as they might though some may argue they arent trying at all the Supreme Court and the executive just cannot seem to get along. Friday brought more unhappy tidings on two fronts.
First, the Supreme Court bench looking into the matter of the implementation of the NRO judgment...
The recent spate of acquittals of alleged terrorists has brought into question the authorities capacity to investigate and try terrorism-related crimes.
Since April, at least 33 alleged terrorists have been released by anti-terrorism courts, mostly because of lack of evidence. They had been...
The beautiful game has come to Africa. With South Africa hosting the month-long 2010 football World Cup, the nation has shown it has come a long way since the dark days of apartheid.
South Africa has hosted various international sporting events since the end of apartheid in 1994, including the...
my suggestion is regarding award of army ranks to members.
1.there should be one general being the chief of the site
2.then like corps commanders there should be limited number of Lt Gens
3. Maj Gen also limited and others
4. promotion upto the rank of major should be on number of posts...