US exit from Afghanistan-costly victory for Pakistan?
May 10, 2021
Allow me to recollect memories of March 1980 as a young infantry officer located at Nawa Pass, Bajur Agency on borders with Afghanistan. The erstwhile USSR MI24 gunship helicopters would frequently cross over Durand Line uninterrupted while chasing Afghan refugees’ columns crossing over to Pakistan. The columns would consist of women, children, old aged men and a few cattle carrying household items in deplorable conditions. We would occasionally provide them with medical treatment and food at crossing routes, if necessary. Pakistan Army had the instructions to resist opening up fire on these helicopters unless it maneuvers into hostile action against our defences. It was then unimaginable predicting series of historical events like breakaway of USSR within a decade, Afghanistan turning into a graveyard of Soviet Union soldiers and as a bloody battlefield for strategic interests of superpowers through next half a c
Govt calls NA session on short notice after opposition s nod - Pakistan dawn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dawn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Last month when the session was convened, the opposition had lodged a strong protest. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: Struggling to fulfil a constitutional requirement of keeping the National Assembly in session for a minimum of 130 days in a parliamentary year, the government on Thursday convened a new session of the lower house of parliament on Friday (today) on a notice of less than 24 hours, amid an unprecedented surge in Covid-19 cases all over the country, particularly in the federal capital.
President Dr Arif Alvi summoned the session to meet at the Parliament House at 10.30am after the Senate Secretariat, located in the same building, issued two different notifications stating that the offices would remain closed for three days (Friday to Sunday) due to a rise in Covid-19 cases and to disinfect the precincts.
Jirga asks govt to reopen routes with Afghanistan - Newspaper dawn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dawn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.