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Pakistan Navy on Wednesday demonstrated its ability to respond to any aggression by conducting a test fire of a cruise missile from its recently commissioned PNS Himmat near Karachi. The Fast Attack Craft (Missile) PNS HIMMAT, built at Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Limited (KS&EW), was...

Nadeem Javaid, the Chief Economist of Pakistan gave a presentation on the Socioeconomic impact of CPEC recently at Karachi School of Business and Leadership (KSBL), where he is also an Associate Professor. I'd suggest everyone watch this video. Clears up a lot of misconceptions on CPEC...

The statement about North Korea readying its nuclear weapons came from the state-ran news and reported to have come from Kim himself while on a tour of an army artillery unit. The fear is that North Korea could use these weapons in preemptive attacks on South Korea. This terrifying possibility...

India is not adequately safeguarding its booming nuclear installations and material, U.S. officials and experts say. KALPAKKAM, India — On October 8, 2014, Head Constable Vijay Singh awoke before dawn and scurried across the ochre gravel outside the constabulary barracks at the Madras Atomic...

Credit goes to Mohan Tiwari on another forum, here is an interesting analysis by the people on the other side: Source: Launch of Pakistani Shaheen-II (Hatf-VI) Ballistic Missile on Novembe…

ECUADOR HAS grounded its remaining three HAL Dhruvs and terminated its support contract with the manufacturer, following four crashes. The decision was announced by Ecuador’s Minister of Defence, Fernando Cordero Cueva, on October 14. Ecuador had ordered seven Dhruvs for the Fuerza Aérea...

It’s truly amazing that anybody survived the Cold War. Over the past decade numerous stories have come out about Soviet and American military personnel who were given orders to fire nuclear weapons between the 1960s and 1980s. Their conscience stopped them, only to learn later that it was a...

A couple of weeks ago, I was scheduled to take a trip from New York (JFK) to Los Angeles on JetBlue. Every year, my family goes on a one-week pilgrimage, where we put our work on hold and spend time visiting temples, praying, and spending time with family and friends. To my Jewish friends, I...

Newly declassified documents, obtained by George Washington University's National Security Archive, appear to for the first time acknowledge the existence of Area 51. Hundreds of pages describe the genesis of the Nevada site that was home to the government's spy plane program for decades. The...

A deluge of articles have been quickly put into circulation defending France’s military intervention in the African nation of Mali. TIME’s article, “The Crisis in Mali: Will French Intervention Stop the Islamist Advance?” decides that old tricks are the best tricks, and elects the tiresome “War...

KARACHI: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain said on Friday that peace talks can not be held with those who were killing policemen and security personnel and attacking mosques and Imambargahs. Asking the armed forces and establishment to take a bold decision, he said that if the...

KARACHI Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) Chief Altaf Hussain on Friday urged all office bearers, party workers and peace loving citizens in Karachi and across the country to submit within a week the details of all muftis and ulemas (clerics) in their localities, regardless of their sectarian...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has told Washington that US forces must seal the Afghan border in the event of any offensive against the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network in North Waziristan, an official said Saturday. The Haqqanis, blamed for some of the deadliest attacks in Afghanistan and whose leaders...

This is the 155mm Field Howitzer 77. It's one of the deadliest artillery pieces in the world. It was manufactured by Swedish weapons company Bofors in the 80s, but this model is new—a complete mechanical and electronics overhaul over the old one. It is called the 155mm Field Howitzer 77...

Is a Computer Worm Causing Iranian Nuclear Facilities to Blast AC/DC’s ‘Thunderstruck’ At Night? Heavy metal has been weaponzied. At least that's the claim by a computer security researcher who says an Iranian nuclear scientist emailed him to say he and his fellow scientists were under...

Hey everyone, My friends are taking part in the CIMA Global Business Challenge. They won the Pakistan final and will be participating in the Global final at the end of this month. They were asked to make a team video for the video competition and I helped them make it. I'd appreciate it if...

Dry taps and open sewers: welcome to India's 'Millennium City' GURGAON, INDIA: Sarika Kapoor lives in a spacious home in one of the wealthiest cities in India. But something as simple as having a shower is fraught with problems. Most days there is just a trickle of water from the taps and...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has agreed to award contracts without bidding for multi-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan (IP) and Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline projects to Russia, which will also extend financial assistance. However, in an understanding reached with Russia...

After the successful launch of the communication satellite PAKSAT-IR last year, the country’s space agency, Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), is all set to launch an advanced high resolution remote sensing satellite system (RSSS) technology. Expanding...

Was traveling on the Superhighway in Karachi, when i saw a tall cylindrical building to my right. Looked in Google Maps and found this: Anyone know what it is?