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With the inauguration of Metro Bus Service, Pakistan has joined the metro transport club of 147 countries. The 27-kilometer, two-lane, 10-metre-wide road has been prepared with a speed capacity of 60km/h. However, the speed limit… Read More »Lahore Metro Bus Service: Salient Features
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan Saudi Arabia has been playing a vital role in the socio-economic prosperity of Muslim World since its inception. Time and again, the leadership of Saudi Arabia stressed the need to achieve… Read More »Saudi Arabia: A Dynamic Country
ISLAMABAD/NEW DELHI – In an explosive revelation, Colonel (r) Ashfaq Hussain has accused former president General (r) Pervez Musharraf of aggression against India in 1999, saying the former army chief had himself crossed the Line of Control (LoC).
Hussain, in his book Witness to Blunder, said the Kargil mission was masterminded by Major General Javed Hassan, General Mehmood and General Aziz. “They made Musharraf agree to the plans which later led to a limited conflict between India and Pakistan,” he wrote. Hussain claimed Musharraf had himself crossed the LoC and spent a night on the Indian-controlled side. “On March 28, 1999 General Pervez Musharraf crossed 11 kms beyond the LoC on a helicopter and was escorted by Colonel Amjad Shabbir at a location named Zakriya Mustakar.” He wrote Pakistan began its operation in Kargil on December 18, 1998 when Captain Nadeem, Captain Ali and Hawaldaar Lalak Jaan crossed the LoC to carry out a recce.Read More »Musharraf himself crossed LoC during Kargil mission
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER In this world of conspiracies, spreading of depression has proved one of the very successful strategies used as the war tactics and its repercussions are more fatal and lethal than those of… Read More »ALL AGAINST TERRORISM
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan The leadership and government of the United Arab Emirates are taking all possible measures to tackle the looming danger of water scarcity. Water security has become mantra of every government around… Read More »UAE and International Water Summit 2013
Association asks Supreme Court to allow kite flying in rural areas
LAHORE: As authorities are planning to continue the ban on the festival of kites this year, the All Pakistan Kite Flying Association has urged the Supreme Court chief justice to allow holding the festival outside the urban areas so that the centuries-old tradition could be preserved.
All Pakistan Kite Flying Association Chairman Khawaja Nadeem Wayn said that around 150,000 people in Lahore and 180,000 people in Gujranwala and Kasur districts, affiliated with the kite industry, had lost their jobs and were facing hardship, as they had no other means to earn livelihood.
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Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan UAE and WFES 2013 United Arab Emirates, being the leader of renewable energies and technologies in the region and one of the active exporters of renewables around the globe once again… Read More »UAE and World Future Energy Summit 2013
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
A few weeks back the Pakistan army published its new Green Book which identified internal insurgent forces as the country’s principal national security threat. The book also indicated a shift of concentration of the Pakistan army from Eastern borders to the western front. This doctrinal change was warmly welcomed by various sections of the national and the international society and it was being hoped that the relations between Pakistan and India would get better as a result of this shift of concentration. Moreover it was also expected that the process of giving India the status of the ‘Most Favoured Nation’ would also expedite. But unfortunately just after the announcement of the policy of this shift in Read More »HOSTILE FRIENDS
Mehmood Ul Hassan Khan Most recently, the People’s Republic of China during Communist Party Central Committee (CPC) 18th meeting changed its top leadership and the reins of governance and decision making power has been handed… Read More »China’s New Vision and Expected Strategic Challenges
PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER
According to the New York Times, an ex-CIA officer Mr. John C. Kiriakou is scheduled to be sentenced to 30 months in prison as part of a plea deal in which he admitted violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act by e-mailing the name of a covert C.I.A officer to a freelance reporter. The paper says Mr. Kiriakou, 48, earned numerous commendations in nearly 15 years at the C.I.A some of which were spent undercover overseas chasing Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. He led the team in 2002 that found Abu Zubaydah, a terrorist logistics specialist for Al Qaeda, andRead More »LEARNING FROM THE USA