London, Apr 28: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kiyani has done an about-turn from his quiet, but shocking position that the Government’s appeasement of the Taliban in the Swat Valley was a necessary step, a leading UK based daily has said.
His view, it has emerged in the year and a half since his appointment, is that the army was built to fight India, not Pakistanis, The Times has said.
General Kiyani seems to suggest that the Taliban is merely an uncomfortable phenomenon.
Rawalpindi, Apr 24: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Friday said the Army is determined to root out the menace of terrorism from the region.
General Kayani further said the Army would fully support the civilian government in its fight against militancy.
“The Army will not allow the militants to dictate terms to the government or impose their way of life on the civil society of Pakistan,” the Dawn quoted Kayani as saying at the General Headquarters here.
Rawalpindi, Apr. 24 : Worried by the increasing threat perception from the Taliban and questions being raised over the Army's capability and willingness to thwart the challenge, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that the military is fully prepared and committed to take on the challenge.
Rawalpindi, Apr. 7 : Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General, Ashfaq Kayani, has said, the army is fully capable of meeting all "internal and external threats" facing the country.
"The army is and will remain fully prepared to meet the current and emerging internal and external threats, with the full support of the nation," he said while addressing the 63rd Formation Commanders Conference at the army's General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.
Islamabad, Mar. 31: Following the intense heat that the Pakistan’s investigative agency, Inter State Services
(ISI) has come under from the US as well as Britain for its alleged links with banned terror outfits, Pak Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is expected to make it clear to the United States that the ISI is a national security agency working to protect country’s national interests when a high-level US delegation arrives here to discuss the revamped US policy for Afghanistan-Pakistan next week.
London, Apr 28: Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kiyani has done an about-turn from his quiet, but shocking position that the Government’s appeasement of the Taliban in the Swat Valley was a necessary step, a leading UK based daily has said.
Rawalpindi, Apr 24: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Friday said the Army is determined to root out the menace of terrorism from the region.
Rawalpindi, Apr. 24 : Worried by the increasing threat perception from the Taliban and questions being raised over the Army's capability and willingness to thwart the challenge, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has said that the military is fully prepared and committed to take on the challenge.
Rawalpindi, Apr. 7 : Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General, Ashfaq Kayani, has said, the army is fully capable of meeting all "internal and external threats" facing the country.
Islamabad, Mar. 31: Following the intense heat that the Pakistan’s investigative agency, Inter State Services 
