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What is that instrument @0:39 and @ 0:46 I think its the live feed of UAV moniter
 
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it is the new laser attack system which is an indigenous system, much like the Type 99 JD-3 laser system, no further details are known.
 
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Air Marshal's post, number 1650, i cannot see anything.

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The news report.

Muzaffargarh Ranges: Kayani witnesses jamming of tanks

MULTAN:
Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Muzaffargarh Ranges on Tuesday to witness the concluding summer exercises.
The Pakistan armed forces successfully experimented with the technique of jamming movement of tanks and using laser technology in modern warfare. ‘Enemy’ tanks were tracked and jammed through centrally controlled laser technology via wireless supervision and monitoring.
The workout was held in reply to the recent exercises conducted by the Indian armed forces and after comprehensive deliberation by the research and strategic division of the Pakistan armed forces.
Armour troops exhibited their skill and crafty manoeuvres were seen during the exercises. Cobra gunship helicopters also engaged targets successfully at different positions. The Miraaj Aircraft of Pakistan Air Force also participated in the exercise providing air cover to the troops in offensive and defensive manoeuvres.
Infantry and Army troops also demonstrated their skills. The aim of the exercise is to provide a tactical environment to the troops of armour, infantry and artillery for handling weapons and equipment during war.
The COAS appreciated the high standard of professional skills displayed by the participating troops. He congratulated the officers and troops for their successful exercises and advised them to keep improving their professional training.
COAS, while talking to troops over lunch, said: “We are continuously focusing on the health and efficiency of our troops on individual and collective level.” He discussed the benefits of useful new insurance policies for the troops adding that they were highly beneficial for them and their families.
Kayani also discussed the new facilities launched by Canteen Stores Department (CSD) for the armed forces.
He personally met the troops of all regiments who shared their problems with him. The COAS assured them of being aware of their challenges and working to make improvements with the available resources.
Earlier, on his arrival at Multan, the COAS was received by Commander Multan Corps Lieutenant General Shafqaat Ahmed.


Muzaffargarh Ranges: Kayani witnesses jamming of tanks – The Express Tribune
 
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ASIA PACIFIC Date Posted: 27-Apr-2012

Pakistan Army chief hints at withdrawal from Siachen glacier


Farhan Bokhari - Correspondent - Islamabad

Additional reporting by

James Hardy Asia-Pacific Editor - London


The chief of the Pakistan Army has made a rare public statement calling for the demilitarisation of the Siachen glacier between Pakistan and India after 129 Pakistan soldiers and 11 civilians were killed by an avalanche in early April.

The avalanche buried a Pakistan Army battalion headquarters at Gyari on the glacier. Surrounded by peaks up to 7,720 m (25,330 feet) high, the glacier is the world's highest contested region and has been occupied by Indian and Pakistani soldiers since the 1980s.

Reviewing the rescue efforts on 18 April, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, chief of the army staff, told reporters: "I think this [avalanche and the related loss of life] is one good enough reason that this area should not be militarised".

Gen Kayani added that he hoped the issue would be "resolved so that both countries don't have to pay the cost. ... There should be a resolution of Siachen and other issues."

As the head of the army Gen Kayani is a key decision maker in Pakistan and his comments reflect the government's position, a Foreign Ministry source stated . "Gen Kayani's remarks underline a well thought-out position, which is that in Pakistan's assessment this is a futile battle," the source said. "A withdrawal [from Siachen] will be to everyone's advantage. The avalanche has acutely underlined the danger of keeping our militaries fighting in such an inhospitable region."

Since the 1980s Indian and Pakistani forces have sporadically launched offensives in Siachen but more troops have died in weather-related accidents than in combat. The two countries have held talks on withdrawing their troops from Siachen but have not succeeded in turning discussions into a final deal.

A Western defence official in Islamabad said recent improvements in bilateral trade relations have yet to translate into an agreement on Siachen.

"Both India and Pakistan value Siachen for its strategic importance. The confidence hasn't improved to the stage where these two countries will be ready to negotiate, agree and pull back from Siachen," the official stated .

Indian officials have reacted cautiously to Gen Kayani's comments. While Minister of State for Defence Pallam Raju told journalists in New Delhi that he was glad that "Pakistan is also realising the challenges and the economic problems of maintaining troops on the Siachen glacier", a senior Indian Army officer told the Times of India that "we won't give up the advantage we enjoy without a very credible and verifiable commitment from their side".
 
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An interesting article about Gen Kayani published in the News today.

Kayani’s doctrine of rapprochement

S Iftikhar Murshed
Sunday, April 29, 2012

In most men where there is honour, in Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani there is a void. The honourable course for him would have been to resign after being convicted for contempt of court because he stands automatically disqualified from continuing in office. But he has no such intention and it is uncertain with what fateful consequences this may be fraught. Political chaos with deleterious implications for the faltering economy and national security seem likely.

Thursday’s Supreme Court verdict has triggered reams of speculative analyses on what the future may bring. In the process a consequential pronouncement by Chief of Army Staff Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has faded from public memory.

Kayani’s remarks to the media on April 18 that Pakistan should spend less on defence and more on development has dealt a crippling body blow to the theory expounded by Norman F Dixon in his book, On the Psychology of Military Incompetence. Dixon’s work, published in 1976, sparked animated debate and, since then, has continued to be extensively reviewed.

It presents examples of incompetence in British military history over the near hundred year period from the Crimean War to the Allied defeat at Anaheim and identifies reasons for this failing which, he affirms, are applicable to all the armies of the world. The first is a tendency to suppress unpalatable information that conflicts with preconceptions, the second is a fundamental conservatism and adherence to outmoded traditions, the third is the overestimation of one’s own capabilities and a corresponding underestimation of enemy potential.

The three assumptions on which Dixon had based his thesis were belied by Gen Kayani. He came across as the ultimate realist when he told journalists that the Pakistan army understood “very well that there should be a very good balance between defence and development. You cannot be spending on defence alone and forgetting about development.” National security, he said, was inextricably linked to the wellbeing of the people.

There may not have been anything novel in this statement but, in the context of Pakistan, it was new thinking at its best. Never before in the country’s history has an army chief so emphatically stressed the primacy of self-sustaining economic growth as an indispensable prerequisite for national security and stability.

Kayani’s apprehensions find fearful confirmation in Pakistan’s economic profile. External assistance on which the country is so heavily dependent has reduced to a trickle, the deplorable investment climate has sparked a flight of capital, power outages have resulted in the closure of industries and rendered thousands jobless, and skyrocketing inflation has made an estimated 90 million people food-insecure.

This is evident from the Planning Commission’s biannual report on “Change in Cost of Food Basket (July-December 2011)” released last month. It shows that the prices of essential commodities such as wheat, sugar, pulses, vegetable oil and meat increased by a stunning 79 percent in the last four years. In 2007 the cost of this “minimum food basket” was Rs960 but by December 2011 it soared to Rs1,790.

The Kayani doctrine, therefore, envisages a comprehensive national security concept built around peaceful coexistence between Pakistan and India “so that everybody can concentrate on the wellbeing of the people.” Furthermore, never before has a Pakistani army chief declared so unambiguously that “we would like to spend less on defence, definitely.” This represents a radical departure from the previous concept under which India was considered the perpetual enemy and any change in this adversarial relationship was inconceivable.

The COAS acknowledged that the decades of enmity that had bedevilled the Pakistan-India equation would remain unless the outstanding disputes between the two countries were resolved through negotiations. This was reminiscent of President John F Kennedy’s appeal at the height of the Cold War: “Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.” But when he deviated from this norm the world was brought to the brink of a thermonuclear holocaust with the Cuban missile crisis.

In a nuclearised South Asia war is no longer an option but the tedious process of negotiating a settlement of Pakistan-India disputes has always been accident prone. The primary beneficiaries of tensions between the two countries are non-state actors in Pakistan. They thrive on chaos and it is strangely ironical that their objective of destabiliding the country is the same as that of hardliners in the Indian military and intelligence. To achieve this they have not only resorted to terrorist violence in the guise of religion but also to subtle propaganda aimed at maligning and isolating Pakistan.

Thus, in April last year when Maulana Shaukat Ahmed Shah, a moderate Kashmiri cleric and president of the Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadees, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Srinagar, the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) admitted that the assassins were from its own ranks, but then added: “Earlier we thought the Indian army or its agencies killed Maulvi (Shaukat Ahmed Shah) to defame the movement and create misgivings. We had not even imagined that the murderers would turn out to be our own men...it is possible that this order, this message (to kill Maulana Shaukat) may have come from Pakistan.”

The LeT statement implicating Islamabad in the assassination is similar to the kind of propaganda routinely churned out by Indian intelligence for portraying Pakistan as a state that sponsors terrorism. What should be clear is that none of the extremist parties, including the LeT, have any loyalty to the country. Furthermore, it has been established time and again that they all either have links with, or are sympathetic to, terrorist outfits.

Last month the government banned three religious groups that espouse violent extremism bringing the total number of such proscribed outfits to 38. Such measures are meaningless because the outlawed organizations resurface under a new name. Thus the LeT has emerged as the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and the venomously anti-Shia group Sipah-e-Sahaba has renamed itself Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat. Both are prominent members of the Difa-e-Pakistan Council, which has vowed to attack the US, Russia, Nato forces in Afghanistan and India.

A Pakistan-India rapprochement inherent in the Kayani doctrine will be opposed tooth and nail by these groups. Just one example is the February 5, 2011, diatribe of Abdul Rehman Makki, the deputy leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, at a Kashmir Day rally in Lahore. He railed against any thaw in Pakistan-India relations and demanded that the government establish a ministry of jihad. The new ministry would be funded entirely by the Jamaat, which would also provide the first batch of a million trained soldiers.

The obstacles in the way of Pakistan-India normalisation are formidable. Gen Kayani has demonstrated uncommon statesmanship which unfortunately is wanting in the civilian leadership. His April 18 statement has taken Indian analysts by storm and one of the comments emanating from New Delhi was: “The onus for creating an enabling environment for resolution of thorny issues between the two countries also lies squarely on Indian shoulders.”

For a start, New Delhi should grow out of the habit of blaming Pakistan for every terrorist incident in India. There was a refreshing departure from this trend last year after the Mumbai, Pune and New Delhi bombings when the Indian home minister, P Chidambaram, told the BBC “we can no longer point to cross-border terrorism as a source of terror attacks in India.” Of the three attacks he was “fairly certain” that two were carried out by “Indian modules or India-based modules.”

For its part, Pakistan, which is currently led by a convicted prime minister, will have to rein in the extremist groups which thrive on Pakistan-India tensions. Even a single cross-border attack by non-state actors is enough to push the two countries towards confrontation, as has happened in the past.


The writer is the publisher of Criterion Quarterly. Email: iftimurshed@ gmail.com
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Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Gayari, today, to see the progress of rescue efforts.

COAS was briefed about the progress of ongoing work including the efforts to create a water course to safely drain the lake formed by blocking of Gayari river by the avalanche. The satellite data link also became operational today, which will allow real time video monitoring of relief work from GHQ.

COAS remained with the troops for some time and lauded their motivation in face of tough conditions and extreme weather. He appreciated their resolve to upkeep Army’s proud tradition of not leaving a man behind, until humanly possible, regardless of cost.

COAS was also accompanied by Commander Rawalpindi Corps and a media team, invited to witness firsthand, the ongoing activities at disaster site.


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Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani during his visit to Gayari on Thursday with father of Major Zaka, who came under avalanche on 7 April 2012, talking to journalists. (03-05-2012) - Photo ISPR


 
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surprisingly, no Dunhill! :D



Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani giving away COAS Open Golf Championship - 2012 winner trophy to Mr Minhaj Maqsood on Sunday. (06-05-2012)- Photo ISPR

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surprisingly, no Dunhill! :D



Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani giving away COAS Open Golf Championship - 2012 winner trophy to Mr Minhaj Maqsood on Sunday. (06-05-2012)- Photo ISPR

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Lolll...he looks sooo different.... And Orange shirt?:cheesy:
 
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Definitely not.

You don't play golf with full sleeves, that too in summers.

well if you ask me personally, you dont play golf at all....you play squash. :laugh:


but on a serious note - maybe it was ''laundry day'' and the golf shirts were already used up.....his maid maybe on vacation
 
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well if you ask me personally, you dont play golf at all....you play squash. :laugh:


but on a serious note - maybe it was ''laundry day'' and the golf shirts were already used up.....his maid maybe on vacation

Lol...i guess we can cut the chief some slack here!!

How long have you been playing squash for??
 
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