While all eyes are focused on the insurgencies raging on both sides of Pakistan’s western border, Pakistan’s military continues to develop its conventional military capability alongside its counterinsurgency (COIN) capabilities. There have been four major developments in the two last months:
December 8th – Pakistan received the first of seven Saab 2000 Erieye Airborne Warning [...]
Tags: J-10 · JF-17 Thunder · Pakistan Air Force · Predator UAV · Relations with China
Late Saturday night during a Democratic Party debate, presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton stated that if elected president, she would propose joint US-British oversight of Pakistani nuclear weapons. Within hours, media outlets from New Hampshire to New Delhi had all picked up on the story, with headlines screaming, “Clinton Proposes Oversight of Pak Nukes.”
MISSION [...]
Tags: Attack on Benazir Bhutto · Barack Obama · Benazir Bhutto · Benazir Bhutto Assassination · Bush Administration · Central Intelligence Agency · Hillary Clinton · Nuclear Security · Pervez Musharraf · Relations with China · Relations with United States · US Presidential Elections - 2008
The dust is settling after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in his capacity as Chief of Army Staff, placed the country in a state of emergency. Many are calling it a “State of Emergency (Plus)” or “Martial Law (Lite)” — this is just semantics — the fact of the matter is that the constitution [...]
Tags: Abdul Hameed Dogar · Benazir Bhutto · Chief of Army Staff · Emergency Declaration · Iftikhar Chaudhry · Pervez Musharraf · Provisional Constitutional Order · Relations with China · Relations with United States · Shaukat Aziz · Supreme Court · Video · War on Terror
