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Army chief to visit Kabul

ISLAMABAD: Army Chief General Raheel Sharif will make a visit to Kabul, to meet the new Afghan leadership, Pakistani military said in a short statement on Wednesday.

"During his daylong visit, Army Chief General Raheel Sharif would meet Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, CEO Abdullah Abdullah, defence minister, national security adviser and senior military leaders," DG ISPR Major General Asim Bajwa posted on Twitter.

Sources within the defence ministry told Dawn.com that during his meetings with Afghan civil and military leaders, General Sharif would discuss security issues concerning both the countries as well as the post drawdown of US-led international forces from Afghanistan.

Recently, Afghanistan made allegations against Pakistan regarding involvement in cross-border shelling, which Pakistan's Foreign Office "firmly rejected".

“We firmly reject any statements vilifying Pakistan’s commitment to fight terrorism," spokesperson Tasneem Aslam said in an earlier statement.

The spokesperson also mentioned that it is imperative to mutually strengthen border control and fight terrorism that is affecting the entire region. Pakistan is committed to improving friendly relations with Afghanistan to have sovereignty.

For many years, there has been back and forth retort and blame-game between Afghanistan and Pakistan regarding infiltration of terrorists and this has proven to strain the Pak-Afghan relationship.

The Chief of Army staff (COAS) is also set to have a week-long US visit which will start on November 16. He is expected to meet with Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel and other members of the American defence establishment during the visit.

After the US and Afghanistan signed a bilateral treaty agreement, this meeting will be the first formal consultation between the top military of the two countries.
Army chief to visit Kabul - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

 

[fatman17]

can some one tell when airforce recruitment for short courses will take place

why dont you contact the airforce recruitment center.

 

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Pakistan would like to test the new Chinese MBT-3000 VT4 main battle tank, could be the new NG MBT Haider.

According to Kanwa Defense Review, Pakistan is looking forward to testing the new MBT-3000 (also called VT4 for the export version) main battle tank designed by China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) based in Beijing. According NORINCO, the MBT-3000 is the latest technology of main battle tank especially designed to meet the challenge of high-tech warfare.

New Chinese-Russia made MBT-3000 VT4 main battle tank

Unlike the older AL-Khalid or MBT-2000, the MBT-3000 is motorized with a 1300 horsepower diesel engine manufactured in China. This is slightly more powerful than the engine currently used by the Type 99G, the most advanced main battle tank used by the People's Liberation Army, with 1280hp. The MBT-3000 developed for the overseas market is indeed the most powerful tank made in China.

The main armament of the MBT-3000 consists of smoothbore gun fitted with a thermal sleeve and fume extractor. It is fed by an automatic loader which holds a total of 22 projectiles and charges which can be loaded at the rate of eight per minute. In addition, the tank is equipped with a set of guided weapons, allowing use of a guided missile with a range of up to 5 km.

The turret is in the centre and is of all-welded steel armour construction to which a layer of composite armour has been added over the frontal arc. To increase the body side protection, the MBT-3000 can be fitted with with explosive reactive armour (ERA). Stowage baskets are mounted to the rear and each side of the turret.

The MBT-3000 is equipped with a stabilised fire control including second-generation cooled thermal imager sights for the commander and gunner. The tank is also fitted with laser range finder.

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Pakistan would like to test the new Chinese MBT-3000 VT4 main battle tank 0511141Â -Â Army Recognition

 

[fatman17]

Pakistan would like to test the new Chinese MBT-3000 VT4 main battle tank, could be the new NG MBT Haider.

According to Kanwa Defense Review, Pakistan is looking forward to testing the new MBT-3000 (also called VT4 for the export version) main battle tank designed by China North Industries Corporation (NORINCO) based in Beijing. According NORINCO, the MBT-3000 is the latest technology of main battle tank especially designed to meet the challenge of high-tech warfare.

New Chinese-Russia made MBT-3000 VT4 main battle tank

Unlike the older AL-Khalid or MBT-2000, the MBT-3000 is motorized with a 1300 horsepower diesel engine manufactured in China. This is slightly more powerful than the engine currently used by the Type 99G, the most advanced main battle tank used by the People's Liberation Army, with 1280hp. The MBT-3000 developed for the overseas market is indeed the most powerful tank made in China.

The main armament of the MBT-3000 consists of smoothbore gun fitted with a thermal sleeve and fume extractor. It is fed by an automatic loader which holds a total of 22 projectiles and charges which can be loaded at the rate of eight per minute. In addition, the tank is equipped with a set of guided weapons, allowing use of a guided missile with a range of up to 5 km.

The turret is in the centre and is of all-welded steel armour construction to which a layer of composite armour has been added over the frontal arc. To increase the body side protection, the MBT-3000 can be fitted with with explosive reactive armour (ERA). Stowage baskets are mounted to the rear and each side of the turret.

The MBT-3000 is equipped with a stabilised fire control including second-generation cooled thermal imager sights for the commander and gunner. The tank is also fitted with laser range finder.

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Pakistan would like to test the new Chinese MBT-3000 VT4 main battle tank 0511141Â -Â Army Recognition

"would like to test".....so nothing's final yet.

 

[fatman17]

Vt-4 aka Haider.
the CJSC is in China inspecting this system

120mm tracked chinese mortar. ideal for counter-insurgency ops.

 

[fatman17]

Very Good
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seriously.....

 

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Pakistan Army completes first in-house Mi-8 overhaul
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1 Jul, 14
Chief of Army Staff, General Raheel Sharif visited the newly set up premier helicopter overhauling facility at Aviation Base Workshop on 25th June and witnessed the first batch of overhauled helicopters.
Addressing on the occasion, Chief of Army staff, congratulated engineers and technicians of Aviation Base Workshop for having developed the first ever inland helicopter overhauling capability in collaboration with Saint Petersburg Aviation Repair Company (SPARC).He specially appreciated the team for cost effectiveness and time reduction achieved due to our own overhauling facility.
Chief of Army Staff emphasized on enhanced self reliance and continuous skill development to meet the growing challenges of maintaining high operational readiness of Army Aviation. The ceremony was attended by a large number of serving and retired military officers.

Tags: Mi-8, Mil, Military, MRO, News, Overhauls, Pakistan, SPARC

 

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Pakistan’s new intelligence chief takes charge

November 07, 2014 - Updated 1638 PKT

RAWALPINDI: Lieutenant General Rizwan Akhtar assumed charge of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) on Friday.
Lt. General Akhtar was appointed to the post on September 22 and replaces Lt. General Zaheerul Islam. He is the twenty-first chief of the ISI.

Commissioned in the Pakistan Army in 1982, Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar has served as DG Rangers Sindh, a post on which he played an important role in the Karachi operation. (with one hand tied behind his back)

Defence Analysts said Rizwan Akhtar is known for his professionalism and unblemished service record.
Lt. General is from the Frontier Force Regiment and is a graduate of the Command and Staff College (Quetta), National Defence University (Islamabad) and Unite States War College.

 

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Army chief opens road, bridge in South Waziristan
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SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: In the picture released by ISPR, Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif is seen praying after inaugurating the 76km Shakai-Makeen section of the Central Trade Corridor on Sunday.
PESHAWAR: Army chief General Raheel Sharif has said that Zarb-i-Azb military operation is progressing successfully and while focusing on early completion of the operation, the army will continue its rehabilitation and reconstruction activities.
In this regard, he said, a comprehensive plan had been prepared in consultation with the government. The army chief was speaking at a ceremony held on Sunday for inauguration of a 76km road, section of the upcoming Central Trade Corridor (CTC), and the largest bridge in South Waziristan.
A press release issued by the Inter Services Public Relations said the CTC was a strategic link for developing trade between Pakistan and Afghanistan. It will help revive the economy of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtukhwa.
A 705km road network of international standard running through southern districts of KP and Fata, the CTC is being built by army engineers. The project has been funded by friendly countries.
The 76km Shakai-Makeen road, funded by the USAID, connects two main sections of the trade corridor, one between Bannu-Miramshah and Ghulam Khan and the other linking Wana with Angor Adda.
Apart from their economic, security and strategic advantages, the new roads have considerably reduced travelling time between different areas.
Gen Raheel Sharif said development of Fata was a task undertaken by the army on a priority basis. The army has so far undertaken 178 projects in social, communication, infrastructure and power sectors in Fata and Malakand. The projects will improve the quality of life in tribal areas and address the problem of militancy on long-term basis.
Addressing tribal elders, he praised their support in combating terrorists and the sacrifices rendered by tribal people. He reiterated the army’s resolve to restore peace and stability in affected areas.
On his arrival in South Waziristan, the army chief was received by Corps Commander Lt Gen Hidayatur Rehman and tribal elders.
Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2014

besides the CTC, there is the NTC and STC. something is amiss here.....

 

[Reichmarshal]

And now the Wazirs r truly free as they r no more hostige to the masuds.

 

[fatman17]

Chinese version of the Javelin ATGW

 

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Pakistan's army chief to visit U.S.

Oct. 28, 2014 - 04:25PM |

By Jeff Schogol


The Pakistan army’s chief of staff is coming to the U.S. to meet with his American counterparts, the Defense Department has confirmed.

Gen. Raheel Sharif is expected to meet Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, during a weeklong visit to the U.S. that is expected to begin Nov. 16, the Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported on Sunday.

Marine Maj. Bradlee Avots, a DoD spokesman, confirmed that Sharif will met with “senior Department of Defense officials,” but Avots did not have further information about who those officials are.

Dawn reported that Sharif is also expected to meet Gen. Lloyd Austin, chief of U.S. Central Command, but Army Maj. Brian Fickel, a CENTCOM spokesman, could not confirm that.

Sharif will be the first Pakistani army chief of staff to visit the U.S. since October 2010, said Shuja Nawaz, director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, D.C. U.S.-Pakistani relations hit a low point the following year when Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden inside Pakistan.

“This is a rebuilding of the relationship from the depths it fell into in 2011 and 2012,” Nawaz told Military Times on Tuesday.

Foremost on Sharif’s mind will be the future of Pakistan’s relationship with the U.S. after 2016, when the U.S. is expected to remove almost all its troops from Afghanistan, Nawaz said. The U.S. currently reimburses the Pakistani military for its counterterrorism operations. Since launching an offensive against the Pakistan Taliban in North Waziristan this summer, the Pakistani military has increased troop strength on the border with Afghanistan from 150,000 to 170,000.

“Along with this closure of the battle in Afghanistan, the coalition support funds will also dry up, so there will need to be the crafting of a new system to provide any support, and he will have to make a case — not just with his military counterparts, but with people in the [Obama] administration and on [Capitol] Hill — because there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of enthusiasm on the Hill for continuing that relationship,” Nawaz said.

Unlike past Pakistani military leaders, Sharif believes the internal threats to Pakistan’s security are more dangerous than external ones, said Jason Campbell of the Rand Corp. think tank.
“He had a role in changing the way that the Pakistani military trains and prepares,” Campbell said. “Rather than being a large conventional force trained to fight India, he was influential in turning them into more of a counterterrorism — in some ways, a counterinsurgency — force, equipped to deal with the internal threat as well. He brings a new mindset to his position. I think it’s one that conforms pretty well with the way U.S. strategists see the threats in the region.”

Sharif is likely to discuss the Pakistani military’s progress against the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan, said Daniel Markey of the Council on Foreign Relations think tank in Washington, D.C. Despite the offensive’s successes, the Pakistani military believes that the Pakistani Taliban, known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, have established “reverse safe-havens” inside Afghanistan, Markey told Military Times on Tuesday.

“They do believe that top Pakistani Taliban leaders, including the head of the TTP, are spending time in Afghanistan and may actually be getting some support from the Afghan state and intelligence service,” Markey said.

Pakistan’s suspicion may not be entirely far-fetched, Markey said. When U.S. special operations forces captured Pakistani militant Latif Mehsud last year inside Afghanistan, the New York Times reported that Mehsud was in secret talks with Afghanistan to form an alliance with the Pakistani Taliban against Pakistan.

During his visit to the U.S., Sharif is likely to discuss how the U.S. campaign of using drones to attack targets in Pakistan should continue after the U.S. draws down its forces in Afghanistan this year, Markey said.

Recently, the U.S. has been targeting the Pakistani Taliban, a mutual enemy of the two countries. The question is what Pakistan will do if the U.S. attacks groups such as the Haqqani network, an insurgent group that reportedly has close ties to Pakistan’s security forces.

Another concern for Pakistan is its deteriorating relationship with India, Markey said. Both countries have been exchanging artillery fire recently, leaving dozens of civilians dead in the sharpest increase in violence since the early 2000s.

Sharif “will also probably want to make a case to Washington that it’s in our interest to get the Indians to calm down,” Markey said. “I’m not sure how successful he’ll be on that score.”