In an escalation of its armed resistance, the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) has claimed responsibility for two deadly attacks that killed 29 Pakistani army personnel in the Balochistan cities of Kalat and Quetta.
Pakistani Generals routinely overstay their tenures and overstate their relevance in the national discourse. For a military that inherited the same structural commonalities and regulations as India, it is telling that the Pakistani Army has its 15th native ‘Chief’, whereas the Indian Army is on its 30th Indian ‘Chief’.
In an interview with ANI, the activist claimed that the areas populated by Pashtuns in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are being utilised as a "laboratory" by the Pakistani military to test various weapons, notably drones.
At least 14 Pakistani army personnel were killed in two separate attacks carried out by the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in Balochistan's Bolan and Kech regions, underscoring the intensifying insurgency in the troubled province.
Lieutenant General Satish Dua (retd) is the former chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC).
A response is definitely called for, but the Prime Minister has been wise enough to leave it to the Army which knows best how, when and in what manner to retaliate. As in the surgical strike case, we should depend on the army, while knowing fully well that such responses, howsoever tough and devastating, will have little bearing on the behaviour of terrorists, their handlers or the ‘Deep State’ of the Pakistani Army and ISI, especially when after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, the terrorists engaged in that frontier would be deflected towards Kashmir with the support of the Deep State.
Amarinder has also taken strong exception to SFJ’s plans to hold the ‘Kartarpur Sahib Convention – 2019’, coinciding with the auspicious occasion of the 550th birth anniversary celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev.
Pakistan’s Election Commission on Friday decided to increase the time of polling by one hour in order to ensure maximum…
The injured have been airlifted to the military hospital.
Pakistani troops started targeting Indian positions early in the morning at 7 am.
