Shoaib Hashmi

SIALKOT: Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday visited 16 Baloch Regiment at Sialkot Cantt, where he was commissioned as second lieutenant back in the day. Both, the COAS and his father have commanded this regiment. The COAS spent the day with fellow soldiers, who felt proud that their officer had earned […]

RAWALPINDI: The ISPR has said that allotments of land to army officers are made through constitutional provision. In a recent statement, the ISPR said that the allotment of land to former COAS General Raheel Sharif also falls under the same provision and was through government and army procedures. The allotment of agricultural land to army […]

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan on Tuesday conducted its first successful flight test of the Surface to Surface Ballistic Missile Ababeel, which has a maximum range of 2200 kilometres. The missile is capable of delivering multiple warheads, using Multiple Independent Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) technology. The test flight was aimed at validating various designs and technical parameters of the weapon […]

    QUETTA: The Balochistan Frontier Corps conducted intelligence based and counter terrorism operations in the province in the last week, arresting 81 suspects and seizing a huge cache of arms and ammunition. The force, along with other law enforcement agencies, also carried out 32 cordon and search operations in Quetta in which young civilian […]

Rawalpindi: Sepoy Chandu Babulal Chohan, an Indian Army soldier stationed in Indian occupied Kashmir deserted his post at Line of Control (LoC) due to his grievances of maltreatment against his commanders. He willfully crossed the LoC on 29 September, 2016 and surrendered himself to Pakistan Army. As a gesture of goodwill and in continuation of […]

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa met with the Saudi ambassador to Pakistan Abdullah Marzouk Al-Zahrani at GHQ on Friday. In a statement, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said that General Qamar Bajwa, during the meeting, reassured the Saudi ambassador that the Pakistani Army holds the defence of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia […]

    RAWALPINDI: United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador to Pakistan Essa Abdullah Albasha Alnoaimi met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa at General Headquarters on Wednesday. According to Inter Services Public Relations Director General Major General Asif Ghafoor, the COAS gave his condolences to the ambassador over the loss of the […]

RAWALPINDI: United States Central Command (US CENTCOM) Commander General Joseph L Votel visited Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa, at GHQ on Monday. The generals discussed matters of mutual professional interest with special focus on the security situation in Afghanistan. The COAS highlighted the importance Pakistan accords to its relations with the […]

RAWALPINDI: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa called Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani to express his grief over the loss of life in the recent terror attacks in Afghanistan. Speaking with the president through a telephone call, the COAS expressed sympathy with families of the victims and said that his heart ached on […]

LAHORE: Major general Izhar Naweed Hayat Khan was handed command of the Punjab Rangers force on Saturday in a ceremony held at the headquarters of the force. Departing Director General (DG) Umar Farooq Burki presented the new DG with the ceremonial staff, representing the change in office. After the handing over ceremony, the departing DG […]