Marco Polo team has won the Lieutenant Colonel S.H. Rizvi Memorial Polo Cup by defeating Army Service Corps in the final. Lieutenant General (Retired) Safdar Hussain was chief guest on the occasion and gave away prizes to the winning and the runner up teams.
Probationers of Foreign Services Academy while visiting different stalls displayed at Defence Export Promotion Organization (DEPO).
General Tariq Majid, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), spent a busy day in Beijing as he met China's state and military leaders. General Tariq Majid, who is here on an official visit for security talks, met today Mr. Xi Jinping, Vice President of China; General Liang Guanglie, State Councillor and Defence Minister; and Mr. Yang Jiechi, Foreign Minister.
A spokesman of ISPR has strongly rejected the contents of a news item which appeared in New York Times on Tuesday captioned " Militant Groups Slip from Pakistan’s Control" and was later carried by a section of the local press on Wednesday.
Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander-in-Chief, Polish Navy visited Joint Staff Headquarters today and called on Lieutenant General Muhammad Raza Khan, Director General Joint Staff (DGJS) .
The Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Tilla field firing ranges near Jhelum today to witness annual field firing and battle inoculation maneuvers conducted in near real operational environment. A large number of troops participated in the exercise.
The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid who is on an official visit to Singapore to attend 7th Shangri La Dialogue organised by International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), met with Chief of Defence Forces Singapore Lieutenant General Desmond Kuek and exchanged views on matters of mutual interest and enhancement of bilateral defence cooperation between the two countries.
Reacting to a news report in a section of press, the spokesman of Inter Services Public Relations said that the Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani had held a routine meeting with the President on the evening of 28th May 2008.
First group of Pakistan Army Troops comprising 180 men left for Sudan as part of the rotation to UN Mission in Sudan last night. They were seen off at the Airport by Brigadier Humayun Khan. It may be mentioned here that Pakistani Troops, joined the UN Mission in Sudan in October 2005 and are deployed in Ed-Damazine and Vau areas.
The Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid has said that threat of terrorism and violent extremism is a serious challenge to us as a nation therefore, it figures out most prominently in our security calculus today. He gave these remarks while addressing the participants of Armed Forces War Course, National Defence Course and Allied Officers War Course at National Defence University here at Islamabad this morning.
