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February 15, 2023
AMAN-23 to make region peaceful: PM
8th Edition of Multinational Maritime Exercise Aman-23 finally concluded
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February 11, 2023
Flag-hoisting formally kicks off Aman-23 naval drill
KARACHI: The flag hoisting ceremony at the Pakistan Dockyard formally kicked off the 8th edition of Multinational Maritime Exercise Aman-23 in which...
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February 11, 2022
Balochistan suffering from botched prescriptions
News AnalysisThe frequent episodes of violence in Balochistan, is the outcome of exploitation of festering human rights, socio-economic and...
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December 20, 2021
Tughril gives quantum leap to Pakistan’s naval air defence
Tughril Class or Type 054A/P frigate is a state-of-the-art, multi role, most modern frigates ever developed by China
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October 29, 2021
Bombed judgements — 2
Against this backdrop, the military campaign was making no strategic headway as both the senior civilian and military leaders misled the public...
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October 28, 2021
Bombed judgements — 1
The August 15, 2021 US debacle in Afghanistan was the result of the decades-long confusion in US goals, internal organizational battles and skewed...
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September 27, 2021
After escape from Afghanistan: Anti-Pakistan terror outfits regrouping in Balochistan
“Nearly 200 activists of different Baloch militant organisations and Daesh/ISK-P cells have been reported in and around Nago hills of Mastung and...
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September 14, 2021
Counter terrorism: Afghanistan opens doors to new challenges, more opportunities
KARACHI: The ISKP instrumental in attacking innocent Hazara Muslims has suffered a serious jolt with reports of the execution of a long-sought-after...
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June 28, 2021
PNA preparing transformational, battle worthy officers
KARACHI: Sea faring is tough, but the Navy is for the toughest, cruising day in day out over swelling and tossing, furious seas and oceans in...
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June 04, 2021
De-weaponisation key to solving Sindh dacoits problem
KARACHI: Though there are scores of influentials harbouring dacoits in Sindh, but Sindh Assembly Speaker, a Sindh cabinet minister, two...
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April 27, 2021
Quetta Serena bombing: TTP reappears from cold
KARACHI: Investigators have claimed they have found leads to a terror group operating from the Afghan border city of Kandahar that is likely behind...
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April 03, 2021
The nests of terrorists, tangled, untangled across Karachi, Balochistan
KARACHI: A couple of incidents across the country have raised the terrorism profile while counter terrorism actions and detection is in full...
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February 17, 2021
AMAN-21 to pave way for making region peaceful, secure, says Alvi
The President of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, expressed the hope that AMAN-21 will pave the way to make the region more peaceful and secure with combined...
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February 13, 2021
AMAN 21 inaugurated: Naval exercise to help tackle maritime security challenges, says Admiral Niazi
KARACHI: The guns boomed and the band struck high notes as the flags of over 45 countries were hoisted at the Karachi Shipyard and Engineering...
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February 06, 2021
Over 40 international navies coming to Pakistan for Aman 2021
KARACHI: The Pakistan Navy is holding its eighth edition of the annual multinational exercise ‘Aman’ from mid-Feb, in which navies of 46...
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January 15, 2021
Mach episode exposes confused security mechanism of Balochistan
KARACHI: Mach tragedy goes to underline the fact that Balochistan continues to reel from relentless terrorism due to systemic adhocism and security...
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September 20, 2020
Qaisar Mahmood: a caring soul has passed away
Qaisar Mahmood has passed away!!!!!!! It looks so unbelievable. How can it be? Knowing life is fragile, is sniffed out in a flickering moment, but...
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September 12, 2020
Qaisar Mahmood: a caring soul passes away
Qaisar Mahmood has passed away!!!!!!! It looks so unbelievable. How can it be? Knowing life is fragile, is sniffed out in a flickering moment, but...
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July 29, 2020
Karachi needs autonomous LB system to avoid becoming a ghetto
The rains that inspire poets, enrich the soul, bring life to dead and desiccated earth, the clouds thunder and the bolts of light crackle also bring...
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July 27, 2020
Total lack of governance by a govt that has abdicated its responsibility: Karachi requires autonomous LB system to avoid becoming a ghetto
Rains inspire poets, enrich the soul, bring life to dead and desiccated earth, but the clouds, thunder and bolts of light crackling also bring a...
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May 27, 2020
Ansar — you will be sorely missed
Life and death resemble the budding, blossoming and wilting flower that spreads its fragrance and the bright colours refreshing lives of many but...
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April 13, 2020
Covid-19: Path to ease restrictions poses difficult questions
The federal government continues giving confused, mix signals which initially delayed the locked down in three other provinces and Islamabad....
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February 07, 2020
Bickering over Sindh IGP hurting federation, police
A nonissue of the IGP appointment in Sindh has brought the federal and the provincial government relations under strain, kicking up a needless...
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February 06, 2020
Bickering over Sindh IGP hurting Federation, police
A nonissue of the IGP appointment in Sindh has brought the federal and the provincial government relations under strain, kicking up a needless...
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January 25, 2020
Bush asked ruler of Dubai to provide money to Pervez Musharraf
KARACHI: The former US President George W Bush had asked King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and the ruler of Dubai Prince Muhammad to provide USD 4...
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January 12, 2020
How Indian Navy missed the boat in 1971
Horrible tragedies befall nations when real politic overwhelms the larger dominant interests of its people providing eager enemies lurking around in...
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January 10, 2020
How Indian Navy missed the boat in 1971
Horrible tragedies befall nations when real politic overwhelms the larger dominant interests of its people providing eager enemies lurking around in...
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January 10, 2020
How Indian Navy missed the boat in 1971
Horrible tragedies befall nations when real politic overwhelms the larger dominant interests of its people providing eager enemies lurking around in...
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November 23, 2019
Karachi Police botches it up, yet again
KARACHI: The Karachi Police are once again bracing up to add another chapter of infamy in their records through botched-up investigations.It has...
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November 04, 2019
Kashmir militancy and classic guerrilla struggle
The annexation of held Kashmir and the ‘collective punishment’ inflicted on the Kashmiris by holding them incommunicado nearly over...
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October 08, 2019
Powerful group subverts reform to convert Quetta, Gwadar into police zones
Powerful group subverts reform to convert Quetta, Gwadar into police zones
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October 07, 2019
Radical movements in Kashmir to harm self-determination struggle
The annexation of held Kashmir and the various forms of ‘collective punishment’ inflicted on the people over the decades are radicalizing the...
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October 07, 2019
Radical movements in Kashmir to harm self-determination struggle
The annexation of held Kashmir and the various forms of ‘collective punishment’ inflicted on the people over the decades are radicalizing the...
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October 06, 2019
Radical movements in Kashmir to harm self determination struggle
The annexation of held Kashmir and the various forms of 'collective punishment' inflicted on the people over the decades are radicalizing the...
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August 08, 2019
Dynamics of LoC escalations
Another round of vicious ceasefire violations has begun to kill and maim new victims, adding to the list of hundreds of innocent men, women and...
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August 07, 2019
Dynamics of LoC escalations
Another round of vicious ceasefire violations has begun to kill and maim new victims, adding to the list of hundreds of innocent men, women and...
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June 24, 2019
Daesh cell behind Hazarganji bombing unearthed
KARACHI: The Quetta Counter Terrorism Department and intelligence agencies have achieved a major headway by busting a local Daesh cell and...
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June 17, 2019
Climate change catching Pakistan unprepared
KARACHI: The highly acclaimed South Asian Climate Outlook Forum has forecast a “weaker monsoon for Pakistan, almost like that of the last year,”...
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May 28, 2019
Dirty fuel, urban heat island effect making heatwaves unbearable
The mere mention of ‘Heatwave’ stirs nervousness, scare and panic across the city administrations and residents of Karachi alike, rekindling the...
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May 15, 2019
Levies have no place in today’s Balochistan
The Baloch tribal sardars and the bureaucracy remain the biggest resistance to modern policing helping province to continue to be the black hole of...
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April 24, 2019
Violations and the LoC
Hundreds have been killed and maimed in the senseless, mindless violence across the Line of Control ever since it came into being in 1972, mostly as...
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April 10, 2019
TTP expands footprint in Balochistan as Quetta Safe City project remains in limbo
The TTP’s vicious attacks from January to March around Loralai came as a rude shock because the province that had borne the brunt of terrorism had...
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March 25, 2019
India lays bares coercive diplomacy against Pakistan
India has since long indulged in a zero-sum game with Pakistan, refusing dialogue and employed instead a series of counterproductive coercive...
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March 16, 2019
India-Pakistan tensions: A strategic insight
India sought strategic compellance from Pakistan by ratcheting up military escalation raising fears of increased hostilities among the nuclear armed...
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March 09, 2019
Big data transforming Sindh Police
The Sindh Police are embracing ‘smart policing’ principles with the adoption of data-driven technologies to fight crimes efficiently. The IT...
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February 23, 2019
A confused Sindh Special Branch losing its edge
The Sindh Special Branch, is in shambles, reduced to a twisted, contorted form of the glorious past.From an organisation whose Addl IGs and DIGs...
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February 19, 2019
Fibre optic project: Special Branch Sindh limping on Rs50 million crutch
A Rs 50 million data automation and communication project for the Sindh Special Branch has been left non functional, leaving the intelligence unit,...
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December 26, 2018
Catching up with the climate
Raging forest fires in California, lurking cyclones in the Arabian Sea and the deadly heatwaves are the many ways global warming is increasing...
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November 15, 2018
Something in the air
Miasmas, itching eyes, irritated throats and wheezing are the new normal of the atmosphere in the major cities of Pakistan, which have a large...
