Associated Press Service Islamabad:(Jan 2,2015)The Multi-Party Conference (MPC) on Friday evening concluded with consensus reached on the proposed National Action Plan to counter terrorism in the country in the aftermath of deadly Taliban attack on Peshawar school. The political and military leadership of the country, after a 5-hour-long meeting, have agreed over the formation of controversial military courts to ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS)(Jan 2, 2015): To strengthen collaboration on a variety of educational training programs, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the CDA Training Academy (CTA) and the South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI) University was signed on Friday, here at the CTA office, Islamabad. According to a press statement issued, the CTA agreed to provide Lecture Halls for the purpose of ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD (APS) – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Friday has said that the war against terror calls for extraordinary decisions and that establishment of army courts is not Pakistan Army’s wish but it is the need of time. He expressed these views in the All Parties Conference (APC) in Islamabad. While addressing the participants ... Read More »
Ahsan Premee Associated Press Service ISLAMABAD: The Multi-Party Conference (MPC) on Friday evening concluded with consensus reached on the proposed National Action Plan to counter terrorism in the country in the aftermath of deadly Taliban attack on Peshawar school. The political and military leadership of the country, after a 5-hour-long meeting, have agreed over the formation of controversial military ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS) 02 January 2015: Islamabad police is all set to introduce smart phone based emergency alert system as a part of efforts to ensure effective security of schools as well as hospitals situated in Islamabad Capital Territory. The access to this smart phone based system will be given to the administrative staff of 422 government and 1200 private ... Read More »
Ahsan Premee Associated Press Service ISLAMABAD:The Adviser to the Prime Minister on National Security and Foreign Affairs has this afternoon addressed a letter to the Minister of External Affairs, India, to lodge protest on the killing of two soldiers of the Punjab Rangers in Zafarwal Sector. Condemning the action of the Indian Border Security Force, the Adviser in his ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS) January 2, 2015: Islamabad police have arrested 12 outlaws from various areas of the city and recovered a car, 1. 180 kilogram hashish, 51 wine bottles, weapons and looted items from their possession, a police spokesman said here on Friday. According to details,Aabpar police arrested a bootlegger Saam Javid and recovered 50 wine boottles from him. Kohsar ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS)December 31, 2014:A security conference of Educational Institutions was held today in Islamabad Model College for Girls F-7/2, in which all the Principles of Schools & Colleges, nominated security focal persons were briefed by Additional Inspector General Sultan Azam Taimori. Director General of Federal Directorate of Education Aamir Ashraf Khawaja arranged this conference under the instruction of Minister of ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS)The Minister for Interior chaired a meeting of the NACTA Executive Committee here today. The meeting was attended by Chief Secretaries, Home Secretaries and Chiefs of Provincial CTDs and concerned Federal Secretaries. The National Action Plan to counter terrorism, extremism and militancy was discussed. The All Parties Conference on war on terror manifests complete political support. A national consensus between ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS) Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi — the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks — has challenged his two-day physical remand in a kidnapping case in a district and sessions court in Islamabad. Earlier on Tuesday, a local court in Islamabad had remanded Lakhvi in police custody for two days in a kidnapping case, a day after the Islamabad High Court ... Read More »
PESHAWAR: Niaz Mohammad, a former Pakistan Air Force junior technician, convicted in the Pervez Musharraf assassination attempt case, was executed early on Wednesday, APS News reported. He was hanged at the Peshawar Central Prison. Niaz was sentenced to death for making an attempt on the life of the former Chief of Army Staff General (retd) Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi ... Read More »
Ahsan Premee Associated Press Service ISLAMABAD:DEC27,2014:Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif chaired a follow-up meeting reviewing progress on the implementation of National Action Plan to counter terrorism and at the PM’s House here today. The meeting also reviewed actions being planned to block terror financing and breaking the terror communication network. Progress on action against illegal SIMS was also ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS) Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman and former president Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday said his party had reasons to believe that former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf was meeting with certain elements seeking to destabilise the Sindh government. In a statement, Zardari asked democratic political parties to take notice of the alleged conspiracy to destabilise the Sindh govt ... Read More »
JAKARTA:(APS) Indonesia suspended until first light the search for an AirAsia plane that went missing Sunday in the Java Sea with 162 people on board after the crew requested a change of flight plan due to stormy weather. The Airbus A320-200 disappeared en route from Surabaya in Indonesia’s east Java to Singapore, in the third crisis for a Malaysian ... Read More »
Chaudhry Ahsan Premee Associated Press Service ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday constituted a special committee for the implementation of the National Action Plan for counter-terrorism. “I will personally supervise the implementation of the National Action Plan and will make sure that it is swift and effective,” Prime Minister Nawaz said during a meeting on the plan, adding ... Read More »
By Shamila Mahmood In Kabul, Afghanistan, Taliban attacks have increased. Shukria Barakzai, a female member of the recently formed Afghan Government is targeted by a suicide bomber; an attack during a school play leaves one dead and a dozen students injured; seven soldiers lose their lives after a suicide bomber targets a bus carrying them. In Sydney Australia ... Read More »
ISLAMABAD:(APS) Information Minister Pervaiz Rashid on Thursday said that no armed group would be allowed to dictate its agenda and disturb the peace of the country. He was addressing a candlelight vigil ceremony here at National Broadcasting House in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack on Peshawar Army Public School. Rashid said the country has ... Read More »
RAWALPINDI:(APS) Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif on Thursday reviewed all activities to be undertaken by the Army and intelligence agencies as part of the National Action Plan. DG ISPR Asim Bajwa posted a series of tweets about the high level security meeting chaired by the COAS. The COAS directed all concerned to initiate actions on ... Read More »
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