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Salala-like acts are damaging, says Kayani


By: Agencies | March 14, 2012


RAWALPINDI – Terming the border violations by the Nato troops stationed in Afghanistan and the attack on Salala Checkpost as intolerable, Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on Tuesday said these action damaged the cooperation in the on-going war against terror.

He said the sacrifices made by the Pakistan Army were more than that of the Nato forces in Afghanistan; therefore, it required appreciation and not the baseless accusations.

Kayani expressed these views during discussions with German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere and French Army Chief of Staff General Bertrand Ract-Madoux, who called on him separately at the GHQ.

The military leaders discussed issues pertaining to fight against terrorism, mutual cooperation and global and regional security.

According to a statement issued by the ISPR, Kayani said the success in the war against terror was impossible without Pakistan’s support, adding that a peaceful and stable Afghanistan was in the interests of Pakistan.

The German defence minister lauded Pakistan Army’s role and promised every possible support for the military.

He said although, his country was part of the Nato, but it did not take part in the Salala attack.

Meanwhile, Thomas de Maiziere also met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and exchanged views on mutual collaboration in the various fields, including defence production.
 
A sudden increase in deliberate violations of rules by ISAF, sound like a well thought, exit strategy in execution.

I wonder who will be made hero out of it !!!!!!!

Pitty... the 'useful idiots'
 
He is doing a great job in Balochistan Province of Pakistan.


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Pakistan Army took part in development of Balochistan & for providing job opportunity ISSB centre has been established in Quetta.



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1,013 Balochistan Students have been given technical training through Balochistan Institute of Technical Education (BITE) and Army School of Technicians (AST). Presently 511 Balochistan Students are undergoing training in BITE.



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Education Initiatives: 110 Schools have been renovated / refurbished by Pakistan Army in Balochistan.
16,204 Balochistan Students are being educated in 32 Army / FC Public School and Colleges.

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Army has established various technical institutes in collaboration with National Vocational and Technical Education Commission (NAVTEC). 1,013 Balochistan Students have been given technical training through Balochistan Institute of Technical Education (BITE) and Army School of Technicians (AST).



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4000 Balochistani Youth Inducted Into Pakistan Army



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A young recruit from Balochistan leading the marchpast.



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Pakistan army is undergoing many of developmental works in Balochistan and also provided job opportunities in Balochistan. Pakistan Government and Pakistan Army also provide quality education to Baloch youth.
 
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Quetta Institute of Medical Sciences(QIMS) launching ceremony was held in August 2011. QIMS is not a commercial enterprise and has been established purely as a welfare project people of Balochistan.



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Army field clinic in Balochistan


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Pakistan Navy establishes free medical camp in Gwadar



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ARMY’s CONTRIBUTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT OF BALOCHISTAN ;
Education Initiatives:

•1687 Schools have been renovated / refurbished by Army

•16,204 Balochistan Students are being educated in 48 Army / FC Public School and Colleges

•6,167 Balochistan Students are being educated in 16 Federal Government Schools and Colleges

•4,183 Students are being sponsored for free education through Chamalang Beneficiaries Education Programme

•100% free education is being provided to 1496 students by FC in FCPS & Cs

•FC is also sponsoring 22 students including 10 students in HITEC Taxila, 6 students in Military College Murree, and 1 student each in Cadet College Petaro, Sadiq Public School Bahawalpur, Bahria Foundation Quetta and 3 students in Public School Multan
 
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Balochistan Public School - Sui - 14 August, 2010


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Student studying in a school (Kawas Gharabi, Ziarat) run under the Army (Southern Command). To encourage maximum enrollment, each student will get free stationery, books and school bag provided by Army.


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Chamalang Beneficiaries Education Programme
Hostel for 100 Students from Marri and Luni Tribes belonging to Loralai and Kohlu districts has been established at Quetta Cantonment by Pakistan Army. Free boarding, lodging and medical facility along with monthly stipend of Rs 500/- is being provided to each student. An average, Rs 7,000/- is being spent on each student per month.


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Cover-up trails

Ikram Sehgal

Friday, April 13, 2012



To build and sustain a credible image for the country and/or lobby for a national objective it is not uncommon for “discretionary funds” to be available to various ambassadors and other designated officials for disbursement at their discretion. They are for a national purpose, and they are meant to be accounted for. An interesting revelation coming out of the Memogate Commission may be the “smoking gun”, the use of secret funds to facilitate a coverup.



The May 2 incident related to Osama bin Laden required Haqqani’s constant presence in the US for damage control. What was our ambassador in Washington doing in London on a mysterious private visit? What was the need to speak to Mansoor Ijaz in Monaco from London? Denying this ad nauseam, he finally had to accept, when confronted with phone records, that he did indeed speak to him, for more than a dozen minutes. Decrying Mansoor Ijaz’s failure to come to Pakistan, Haqqani’s lawyers and cronies in the print and electronic media (and interestingly enough Prime Minister Gilani himself) did a complete 180° turn, to justify Haqqani’s excuses to avoid appearing before the Memogate Commission in person.



The fundamental difference: Ijaz is a US citizen not bound by the Constitution of Pakistan. As a Pakistani citizen and former public official Haqqani is subject to the Constitution. Men of integrity are putty in the hands of consummate artists like Haqqani. “This man of his word” managed to get out of Pakistan by making the Supreme Court believe his word.



For the most part Mansoor Ijaz’s story gels and is corroborated by the various data he produced before the commission. In contrast, Haqqani’s continued refusal to make available his BlackBerry data is damning. With his attempts at cover-ups further undercutting Haqqani’s denials, his appearance in person would have amounted to suicide. His life is certainly may be at risk, not at the hands of the intelligence agencies but of those having a vested interest in shutting him up permanently. Loose ends are always a problem and possible approvers are hardly looked at with only a kind eye.



The disclosure of how secret funds were used, particularly in the period after Oct 15, 2011, can easily establish a cover-up by correlating the money disbursed into statements/news items/columns blatantly supporting Haqqani contrary to facts. Moreover, discretionary funds are not for personal purpose. Notwithstanding the right of the media to air a fact and/or opinion as it sees it to be, the credibility of the media is sacrosanct in the understanding that it cannot be influenced or coerced by money or power. Public censure is necessary for all those, the media or otherwise, who have been (and are) recipients of secret largesse.



While one must not grudge those who deservedly get handsome packages, out-of-the-ordinary affluence must be accounted for applying the common law for “living beyond one’s means” for everyone, media persons included.



Notwithstanding British pride in the integrity of their democracy, a number of politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, etc., were on Murdoch’s payroll. To their credit, the British public’s will prevailed against Murdoch’s money. The disclosure of the recipients of slush funds exposed the real character and integrity of those who claimed they only disseminated the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Incidentally, money is not the only motivation for influencing perceptions and/or evidence, fear of retribution can be. Chicago’s Al Capone was guilty many times over of publicly committing murder, mayhem and other crimes. Out of fear for their lives witnesses would never testify against him. Those who despair failing to ever get witnesses to court, please note that Al Capone was eventually incarcerated in a federal prison for tax evasion.



The “ephedrine” case is a case study for both money and influence being used for cover-ups. Health ministry officials Dr Rashid Jooma, Asad Hafeez and Abdus Sattar Mehrani gave statements under oath to the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) mentioning Yusuf Raza Gilani’s son, Musa Gilani, for badgering them on telephone to remove the ban on the import of this illegal banned substance in favour of his two favourite companies that ostensibly sold the drug on to drug smugglers.



On the ANF’s refusal to drop the case, all powers of investigation by the ANF were withdrawn on Mar 21, 2012, by the federal government. Guarantees of protection given by the Supreme Court mandating the ANF to continue prosecution of the case notwithstanding, on April 6, the director general of the ANF, Maj Gen Shakeel Hussain, was arbitrarily transferred back to the army and the ANF was put under the direct control of the secretary of Narcotics Control, Zafar Abbas Luk. If this is not a cover-up of the highest order, what is?


The “cover-up” trail in this case reaches the highest in government. With honest officers persecuted/sidelined by the use of high constitutional office, precedents are being set for public officials not only to condone but expedite crime. If criminals function in the name of justice, justice becomes crime.



Not a failed state, we are well on our way to becoming a criminal one. Aesop (620 BC-520 BC), a Greek slave of possibly Ethiopian origin to whom many fables through the centuries are credited, observed almost 2,500 years ago, in 550 BC: “We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” “Ecstasy” is the end product of ephedrine. Will justice be the by-product of the attempted cover-up? The Supreme Court is trying, quite unsuccessfully until now, to use reason and the Constitution instead of the force necessity to establish the writ of the rule of law.



The Saturday before the Annual Formation Commanders Conference in the GHQ in Rawalpindi, tragedy struck in Siachen, an enormous avalanche burying over 124 of our soldiers and 11 civilian personnel. Kayani rushed to Skardu to personally supervise rescue operations. But Instead of grieving for those who vanished under tons of snow while protecting our frontiers, our president, the Supreme Commander, was all teeth and smiles at a lunch in New Delhi hosted.



Kayani has an inherent responsibility as COAS to stand behind his command. Scrupulously honest and upright officers like ANF’s Shakeel Hussain and his colleagues were only doing their assigned duty. Notwithstanding an outstanding job uplifting the morale of the men in uniform, Kayani must seriously undertake self-assessment of what stops him from living up to his sacred trust whenever push comes to shove?



Protecting his men from avalanche in Siachen was impossible. But what about the constant barrage of the moral avalanche of perfidy they are being buried under in the name of a perverted form of socalled democracy and/or the Constitution? Repeated compromises afflicting Kayani and his conscience on issues of national security can ultimately only lead to an artificially created greater disaster.



Given that the detractors of Pakistan now seem to have solid support at the “ground zero” of the inner circles of our hierarchy, Memogate is probably only the tip of the iceberg!


The writer is a defence and political analyst. Email: isehgal@pathfinder9.com
 
There was a rumor, well a clarification by najam Sethi that the COAS stood up to PM on the removal of the DG ANF and had said to PM not to do these kind of things. But Gilani was steadfast.

And now, the PPP folks are saying that it is a army tradition to call back people who are near retirement, and COAS called back the DG ANF.
 
Is Kayani serious?

Indian Press

IT now appears that the Pakistani military is loath to miss the peace bus. For the first time its army has chosen to speak of resolving all issues with India, so that “peaceful coexistence” may become possible, leaving greater room for development. This pulpit talk from the head of the Pakistan Army, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, if meant seriously, should imply a completely new role for that country’s armed forces…. Only then will it have credibility. …Gen Kayani’s dove-like remarks … will mean something if he takes his forces back to the barracks. … Once that happens, and the politicians have well and truly taken over from the men in uniform, the ideal of “peaceful coexistence” that the general spoke of can be meaningfully pursued.

For now, however, it is hard to get away from the fact that the Pakistan Army’s formal doctrine is to fight India. This was underscored by Gen Kayani himself about a year ago. As long as this remains the case, the Skardu remarks should be discounted. Nearly 140 Pakistan Army personnel perished in the snows in the Siachen glacier region earlier this month, and there was a howl of protest in that country against stationing forces in the icy wasteland. This hostile public reaction is what appears to have made Gen Kayani resort to the camouflage of peace, and seek the withdrawal of both Pakistani and Indian forces from Siachen. But little may be expected to change on the ground.

Since Osama bin Laden was taken out by the Americans under the Pakistan Army’s nose last May, it has suffered much in public esteem. Besides, of late, Pakistan’s civilian leaders have made some fruitful moves on the economic side with India, which have been reciprocated. This seems to have gone down well with the Pakistani public, and thus cut into the Pakistan Army’s constituency. Gen Kayani is only making tactical moves to repair the damage. — (April 21)
 
Rawalpindi - April 24, 2012:
Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Muzaffargarh Ranges today, to witness ongoing training exercises.
The activities of the day comprised maneuvers of an armoured brigade group in conventional corps operations. PAF and Army Aviation elements provided close support to the maneuvering land forces. The modern battlefield was simulated by employment of UAVs for real time battle reconnaissance, along with state of the art data communication means. COAS appreciated the standard of training as well as various modifications indigenously carried out in field equipment, to make it more suitable to Pakistan Army’s needs.
Earlier, COAS was received at Multan by Corps Commander Multan Corps, Lieutenant General Shafqaat Ahmed.

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Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani witnessing training exercise at Muzaffargarh Ranges. (24-04-2012)- Photo ISPR
 
Some tanks were the target of those new laser blocker thingies as well.

Sorry don't know much about tanks.
 
Gen Kayani is only making tactical moves to repair the damage. — (April 21)
How would Kayani respond if India, as a good-faith gesture, unilaterally pulled back its forces from Siachen?
 
How would Kayani respond if India, as a good-faith gesture, unilaterally pulled back its forces from Siachen?

It never will. Lets just go a bit back, in the BB government, the Indians were going to pull back, but their army prevented them from doing so.

But if it does really happen, then there are going to be some guarantees from both sides (i.e no Kargil like ops, no covert ops or anything, and free observers). And then pakistan has no reason to keep it's army up there.

It is not going to happen unilaterally but if it does, then we pull them back as well.
 
let the indians do it, then our side would perhaps consider a response


there's a lot of confusion and baseless media/tabloid speculation about how the Siachen incident ''would'' or ''ought to'' soften up Pakistani stance towards the bilateral issues

if that is their belief, they are living in a total fool's paradise and clearly are fooling themselves


but i'm nobody to speak - so dont take my word for it alone ;)
 
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