Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

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No PR471/2010-ISPR Dated: November 11, 2010

Rawalpindi - November 11, 2010: Mr Franco Frattini, Italian Foreign Minister called on Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at General Headquarters today.

The visiting dignitary remained with him for some time and discussed the matters of mutual interest.

There is need of powerful lobby & it has to be work.

[Abu Zolfiqar]

ANP is a confused party with confused followers

[Xeric]

The Pakistan army consists of 500,000 active duty troops and another 500,000 on reserve. If Pakistan truly wanted to capture the Haqqani Network they would be able to drag them out of their caves by their beards within a few days.

After getting such reversals in Afg, they still believe this? This is baffling indeed.

[Abu Zolfiqar]

i think the State Department, the media and the PENTAGON need to have a massive press + Q & A day since it seems that for the past 10 years they are traversing on totally different tracks --at times at odds or contradicting eachother


well i'll ask a simple, rhetorical, elementary yet fundamental question


how DOES nato define 'victory' in Afghanistan?








according to some news reports, certain armies in the ''coalition of the willing'' were paying talebs not to attack them or their positions

[fatman17]

US delegation meets Kayani

ISLAMABAD: A United States Congressional delegation, led by Senator John McCain, called on the Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani at the General Headquarters, Rawalpindi on Friday. The visiting dignitaries remained with him for some time and discussed matters of mutual interest. app

[fatman17]

Kayani’s doctrine of escalation

The writer is director at the South Asia Free Media Association, Lahore [email protected]

Should we adjudge the ‘intent’ of India while framing our military defence, or should we look at India’s ‘capacity’ to harm Pakistan? Intent is when India says it wants a stable Pakistan and wants normal, good-neighbourly relations with it. Capacity is the actual capability of the Indian army to harm Pakistan, its induction of new weapon systems and the upgradation of the systems it has.


Our army chief, General Kayani, adheres to the second ‘realist’ assessment. He says he will frame Pakistan’s defensive strategy in line with India’s acquisition of Pakistan-specific weapons.

On Tuesday night, November 9, 2010 Dunya TV had anchor Najam Sethi saying that General Kayani’s doctrine opened Pakistan to an arms race that Pakistan simply could not afford and that the ‘doctrine’ was a new concept in Pakistan’s confrontation with India.

Anchor Dr Moeed Pirzada, a well-read person among our TV commentators, said that the ‘realist’ doctrine of General Kayani was the widely accepted yardstick of defence response among nations. It was much safer to study the war capability developed by the enemy state than to pay heed to the peaceful ‘intent’ expressed by it.

The doctrine was embraced by the US in its confrontation with the Soviet Union. It paid off because the latter also tacitly accepted it in the bilateral arms race at the global level. Finally, the Soviet Union quit the field of military competition in the face of President Reagan’s planned escalation under the rubric of ‘space wars’ initiative and was made to disintegrate later by its other internal contradictions. This happened after the ‘disarmament’ efforts by the two super-rivals had reached an advanced stage, delineating the nuclear status quo and precluding accidental nuclear conflict as far as possible. India and Pakistan are not even there as yet.

The Soviet Union simply could not keep up with the capacity of America’s free economy to innovate in the development of weapons. The totalitarian vision of Lenin, which rejected competition by calling it ‘economy of waste’, was gone by the time Brezhnev came to power in the Soviet Union in the 1970s along with much more realistic regional leaders like Gorbachev in Leningrad and Yeltsin in Moscow. The Soviet economy simply could not keep up with the new advances that competition in the US market had made possible. Where does one place Pakistan in this ‘realist’ military paradigm?

India’s economy, its high growth rate and its ability to indigenise military technology at a far higher scale than Pakistan, will go on compelling Pakistan to match India by inducting technologies it does not own. The ratio of its defence spending to the GDP is already too high to sustain. The arms race with India — including the acquisition of nuclear weapons — has damaged Pakistan; and the doctrine of escalation is already somewhat comparable to an imaginary acceptance of it by Cuba vis-à-vis America.

India has always thought of dictating Pakistan’s military build-up till Pakistan can no longer sustain it without affecting the quality of life of the common man. India ‘supported’ Pakistan’s nuclear programme when Pakistan’s growth rate was hitting rock bottom as opposed to India’s record high growth rate at the time of Pokhran. Pakistan did Kargil when its economy was almost belly-up, once again indicating the lack of realism among its military leadership. Now that its internal situation causes alarm across the globe, is it right to articulate this ‘realist’ policy of escalation?

Pakistan has always known that it can’t match India in military capability. That is why it adopted the asymmetric approach. India had the same kind of problem vis-à-vis China but it ignored the doctrine that General Kayani has embraced in his India-centric strategy. It also did not adopt the asymmetric war approach against China. Pakistan has come to grief after half a century of using non-state actors against India. It is isolated internationally and is under attack from the very non-state actors it once nurtured and patronised.

It is time we changed the paradigm of defence in Pakistan and returned to the normalcy of trade and trade routes. Pakistan’s revisionism vis-à-vis India must give way to compulsions of self-correction; and Pakistan must become open to international finance as an important adjunct to South Asia’s rising economy.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2010.
Khaled Ahmed

[fatman17]

23 brigadiers promoted as major generals

ISLAMABAD: The Promotion Board of the Pakistan Army on Monday approved the promotions of 23 brigadiers to the rank of major generals. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani chaired the board. According to sources, the officers who have been approved for promotion are Iftikhar Wyne, Naveed Mukhtar, Sadiq Ali, Ijaz Shahid, Maqsood Abbasi, Farhan, Javed Bokhari, Amir Azim Bajwa, M Iqbal Assi, Tariq Ghafoor, Abid Nazir, Hadiat, Arif Warriach, Zafar Iqbal, Anwar Ali Haider, Sajjad Rasool, Shahid Baig Mirza, Asim Bajwa, M Tauqir Ahmed, Waqar Ahmed, Akhtar Waheed, Salman Ali, and Muhammad Ahmed. app

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

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There were few Lady Doctors of the AMC whose promotion would be decided in that board , Surprisingly none were promoted to General.
Can you provide the names of all Brigs who were not promoted..!!

[fatman17]

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There were few Lady Doctors of the AMC whose promotion would be decided in that board , Surprisingly none were promoted to General.
Can you provide the names of all Brigs who were not promoted..!!

sorry only the army can do that.

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani offering Eid congregation alongwith senior serving and retired military officers at Ashra Mubashra Mosque Chaklala today. (17-11-2010) – Photo ISPR

[air marshal]

COAS offers Eid Prayer at Chaklala

ISLAMABAD, Nov 17 (APP): Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani offered Eid-Ul-Azha Prayer at Rawalpindi Ashra Mubashra Mosque Chaklala on Wednesday.

The largest Eid congregation at Rawalpindi held at Chaklala Ashra Mubashra Mosque which was attended by Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and large number of senior serving and retired Military officers, junior commissioned officers and jawans.

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Now that its internal situation causes alarm across the globe, is it right to articulate this ‘realist’ policy of escalation?

While I enjoy reading Mr. Khalid Ahmad, I will say that in the piece below, the analogy he offers, positioning Pakistan as the USSR and India as USA, is a bit of a stretch.

The reality of Indian strike corps poised at the border is not one any sober individual can deny.

[building7]

WHAT DOES THIS PHOTO SAY

Pakistan’s Photographic Warning of What Is To Come Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog
no prob we gonna pretend i wish kiani smaked the bastard never look down we are willin g to get nuked !!! never let the zionist ***** think she speak for humanity.

that picture am more than sure kiani didnt even know was taking place,stay awake kianio eye to eye ,fuckem if they got more firepower ,dont class yourself as lost ,bring there house down

[fatman17]

WHAT DOES THIS PHOTO SAY

Pakistan’s Photographic Warning of What Is To Come Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog
no prob we gonna pretend i wish kiani smaked the bastard never look down we are willin g to get nuked !!! never let the zionist ***** think she speak for humanity.

that picture am more than sure kiani didnt even know was taking place,stay awake kianio eye to eye ,fuckem if they got more firepower ,dont class yourself as lost ,bring there house down

petraeus is admiring kiyani's baton since he dosnt have one - we have many - we can dish em out for free! no problem.

[Karnal]

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good news...........