8:28 PM
Muhammad Zai Khan
ISLAMABAD: DG Operations and Planning Major Gen. Tahir Ashraf and the parliamentary leader of Awami National Party Haji Adeel Khan exchanged harsh words in the meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Defence and Defence Production.
The meeting presided by Chairman standing committee Lt. Gen. (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi here in the Parliament House on Tuesday.
The exchange of harsh words began when Haji Adeel asked about the distribution of food items by the Army among the flood affectees.
Major General Tahir Ashraf said that they did not come in the meeting to organize their ‘postmortem or accountability’ by someone on which the ANP leader said that the country was not under martial law rule that Army Generals were showing ‘such attitude’.
The Secretary Defence Lt. Gen. (r) Athar Ali interfered...
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
10,000 Chinese troops in Gilgit-Baltistan
NEW YORK: Well known South Asia specialist and writer Selig Harrison, who has a long been a critic of Pak policy, has made a startling disclosure in his latest article in the New York Times, which has almost gone unnoticed in Pakistan. He says Pakistan has decided to hand over Gilgit-Baltistan to China and up to 10,000 troops of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have moved into the area.The article, published on Aug 26 in the opinion pages of the NYT, says a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China.Selig Harrison, who is director of the Asia Programme at the Center for International Policy and a former...
