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View attachment 176593 this APC is operated by the FC. kindly identify the make?
Textron APC M1117
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View attachment 176593 this APC is operated by the FC. kindly identify the make?
A US Army Lieutenant, a colleague whereas was a bit upset for being assigned to Afghanistan, but at the same time also cheerful when she announced that the $ 5K (her pay) she would be getting while at Afg would be totally TAX-FREE, that is to say, net income almost equal to gross pay!
Here, Khooni ultian lag jain so called Pakistanion ko if soldiers fighting Zarb e Azb would get anything tax-free!
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Afghan-Pakistani defence ties deepen
Farhan Bokhari
Islamabad
28/01/2015
Relations between the Afghan and Pakistani militaries have deepened in the wake of the 16 December Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar
The two militaries had previously eyed each other with suspicion amid Afghan claims that Pakistan was doing little to close down Taliban havens on its territory
The military commanders of Pakistan and Afghanistan will meet “regularly to discuss and debate strategic issues”, said a senior Pakistan intelligence official in an interview with IHS Jane’s on 28 January, a week after high-level military commanders from both sides made reciprocal visits.
The official said co-operation between the two states “has especially deepened following the 16 December” Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan’s northern city of Peshawar, which killed 150 people, mostly teenagers.
A day after the Peshawar attack, Pakistan’s army chief, General Raheel Sharif, visited Afghanistan and urged Afghan civil and military leaders to immediately order Afghan forces to attack Taliban sanctuaries in Afghanistan, close to Pakistan’s border. Pakistan’s military and intelligence officials say the militants involved in the Peshawar attack were receiving instructions from handlers inside Afghanistan.
Separately, a Western defence official in Islamabad told IHS Jane’s that the recent military exchanges were driven in part by the United States urging both militaries “to step up military co-operation because they face a common enemy”. Ahead of the conclusion of the US/NATO combat mission in Afghanistan at the end of December 2014, the Obama administration had for years urged Afghanistan and Pakistan to deepen their military co-operation, though without success.
In mid-January Lieutenant General Nasir Janjua, commander of Pakistan’s southern army command, based in Quetta, and Lieutenant General Hidayatur Rehman, commander of the Pakistan army’s corps in Peshawar, visited Afghanistan on invitation from their Afghan counterparts.
Then, on 25 January, the commander of the Afghan border police, Lieutenant General Mohammad Shafiq Fazli, and his deputy, Major General Sher Ali Shaharyar, arrived in Pakistan.
The recent high-level military exchanges are unprecedented for Pakistan and Afghanistan and suggest a growing comfort level between the two armies, which once saw each other as enemies.
For Pakistan, the growing military-to-military warmth begins to open doors for renewing military training for Afghan army cadets. For years the Pakistan Army has sought to formalise training for Afghan cadets on the grounds of cultural and linguistic similarities between the two countries. However, distrust in the past has been fuelled by Afghan charges that Pakistan had failed to act against sanctuaries on its territory used by Afghan Taliban militants.