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This is an interesting article which discusses the current and future reforms envisioned by PLA. There are some interesting facts I did not knew earlier such as 50% of Chinese Soldiers are officers. It also touched the volunteers vs conscripts recruitment, Where China seems to implement/ed...

Came Across this news...any local news from Pakistan confirming the same ? Officials: Suspected US drone crashes in Pakistan By RASOOL DAWAR Associated Press Writer Published: Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010 - 8:09 am PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Intelligence officials and a local resident say a...

Not sure if this has been posted here earlier from Pakistan Paindabad Blog Sunday, August 09, 2009 Family Portrait – A Karachi Family in a Gurgaon Mall A slice of their Delhi afternoon. [Text and pictures by Mayank Austen Soofi] One afternoon I bumped into a Pakistani family in...

India, Qatar ink key defence cooperation pact Doha (PTI): Taking bilateral ties to a new high, India and Qatar have signed a landmark defence cooperation pact, described by officials as an agreement "just short of stationing troops" in the oil-rich Gulf region. Within hours of Prime Minister...

Russia, China resume talks on military transport planes 16:03 | 05/ 09/ 2008 GELENDZHIK (South Russia), September 5 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will continue negotiations on a contract to deliver 34 transport planes and four aerial tankers to China earlier frozen due to a disagreement over...

Operation Red Flag IMAX THE IMAX film, Operation red flag (2004) depicts the challenges and hardships endured by U.S. pilots and International ones from many nations afar. Get in the cockpit with some of the world's greatest fighter pilots and witness one of the most intense flying of your...

Pak govt scraps peace deal with Taliban 9 Jun 2008, 1654 hrs IST,PTI ISLAMABAD: Rattled by a fresh wave of suicide attacks, Pakistan government on Monday scrapped a deal signed last month with the Taliban that had been bitterly opposed by the United States and Afghanistan. "The Swat...

First Crash of Europe's NH90 Helicopter Posted by Joris Janssen Lok at 6/3/2008 11:32 AM CDT An Italian army NH90 has become the first NH90 to crash. The accident occurred yesterday (June 1) when the helo struck the surface of Lake Bracciano, narrowly missing people in canoes. A series...

Strangely most of people were not even aware of the exercise taking place until the missing soldiers news came out....probably it was meant to be a low key affair Marine Corps News Exercise Shatrujeet 2008 a learning experience for “Blackhearts”, Gorkhas March 15, 2008...

Jai Jawan with Vidya Balan (NDTV) shot at Kaman Post Kaman Post, the last point at the Line of Control (LoC) in the Uri sector on the Indian Side, on the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad road. This is frequenty observed by The United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan and the Bus...

Returning fighters, Algerian style MOSCOW. (Nikita Petrov exclusively for RIA Novosti) - Algeria will return 15 MiG-29SMT (Fulcrum) fighters purchased from the MiG corporation in 2006-2007 to Russia. The deal on the return was signed shortly before Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika...

The red star gave way to the two-headed eagle !!! Dress uniform for Army generals (foreground), Air Force generals (center) and Navy admirals. Deputy Defense Minister and Chief of Logistics Vladimir Isakov said President Putin who inspected about 70 uniforms gave his approval. Field...

Why Pakistan Matters Thursday, Jan. 03, 2008 By SIMON ROBINSON/ISLAMABAD Pakistani soldiers are deployed in a city market in Karachi, Pakistan. David Guttenfelder / AP As the new self-appointed standard bearers of Pakistani democracy, Asif Ali Zardari and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari...

Detailed Medical report (Scanned Copy) of Benazir Bhutto As posted on NY Times Report-->http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/20071231_INQUIRY_REPORT.pdf

Plot to assassinate Mush foiled, security tightened CNN-IBN Published on Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 18:33 in World section New Delhi: Pakistan intelligence agencies claim to have foiled an al-Qaeda plot to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf. He's survived two previous attempts on...

Pak test-fires nuclear-capable cruise missile-Hatf-VII (Babur) 11 Dec 2007, 1315 hrs IST,PTI ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday test fired a medium range nuclear capable cruise missile which can hit targets within a 700 km range, consolidating its strategic arsenal. The successful launch...

NDTV's The Jet Set- F-16,Gripen, MiG-35 and F/A-18 E/F episodes. According to Vishnu Som (NDTV) Vishnu Som flies in F16 with Black Widows Sq. See Here--> NDTV.com

Female suicide bomber killed in Pakistan blast: police Tue Dec 4, 5:01 AM ET PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - A burka clad female suicide bomber blew herself up at a checkpost in northwest Pakistan Tuesday, in the country's first such attack involving a woman, police said. There were...

Pakistan’s Pinstripe Revolution Gen. Pervez Musharraf never wanted to be a politician. But his emergency decree has made the return of civilian politics inevitable By Fareed Zakaria | NEWSWEEK Nov 19, 2007 Issue The first time I saw president Pervez Musharraf in person was in...

Lessons from Samarkand for madrasas 18 Nov 2007, 0000 hrs IST,Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar I am just back from Uzbekistan, after seeing the architectural wonders of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. The greatest of these is Samarkand’s Registan Square, flanked by three massive buildings...