Husain Haqqani Got Paid To Write Against Pakistani Military


Former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani wrote a book in 2005 titled ‘Pakistan between Mosque and Military’which specifically targets Pakistani military and Pakistani nuclear ambitions.  

Husain Haqqani received a $100,000 from Smith Richardson Foundation for writing this book in which he expressed many thoughts similar to the ones reflected in the controversial memo.

In his book, former ambassador wrote,
“Washington must not ignore Pakistan’s state sponsorship of Islamist militants, its pursuit of nuclear weapons and missiles at the expense of education and healthcare, and its refusal to democratize; each of these issues is directly linked to the future of Islamist radicalism.”
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How Long Till US Hellfire Will Break Loose in Pakistan

How Long Till US Hellfire Will Break Loose in Pakistan? is the question on almost all minds concerned about the Pak-US relations.United States has vacated the Shamsi Air Base at the request of the Pakistani government and shifted all its personal, armed drones and equipment to its bases in Afghanistan.

There has been no CIA drone attacks using Hellfire missiles in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) since November 17. The United States intelligence community feels that drone strike at this moment in time can push US relations with Pakistan to a point of no return.

While United States government don’t want to push Pakistan into a situation where they feel that they can't support the US war on terror, US intelligence agencies and US government feels that drone strikes are essential to their win in Afghanistan and President Barack Obama will find it hard to put an absolute end to the american drones firing AGM-114 Hellfire is an air-to-surface missiles against targets in Pakistan in an election year.

In one of the US cables released by the WikiLeaks, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani was quoted saying that he doesn’t care about these attacks by the US unmanned aerial vehicles and his government will protest against these attacks in the National Assembly of Pakistan for some time as a face saving exercise and later on everyone will pay no attention to it.
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Video of Pak-China Friendship / YOUYI-IV Joint Military Exercise

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Former Air Force Chief, Air Marshal Nur Khan Passes Away

Former Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force, Air Marshal Nur Khan, has died at the age of 88 at Mianwali in Punjab province.
The former Israeli President, Ezer Weizman, who also served as the sixth Commander of the Israeli Air Force in his autobiography 'On Eagles' Wings' said, "He was a formidable fellow and I was glad that he was Pakistani and not Egyptian".
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The Pakistanis Have a Point: NY Times Article

The Pakistanis Have a Point by Bill Keller is an article published in The New York Times on 14th December, 2011. I would highly recommend the readers of the Pakistan Military Review to read this well balanced and well researched article presenting the Pakistani side of the Afghan affairs and its impact on the Pakistani relations with the United States.
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Indian Air Force Su-30 MKI fighter jet Crashes


A Sukhoi Su-30 MKI fighter jet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) has crashed in the Wada-Bholai village near Pune. Both fighter pilot of the IAF's Su-30 MKI fighter jet were safely able to eject from their aircraft.
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Former French Minister Arrested In Agosta 90B Submarine Corruption Scandal

Former culture minister of France, Donnedieu de Vabres has been arrested for questioning about the kickbacks on Agosta 90B diesel attack submarines (SSKs) deal which may have funded the Edouard Balladur's failed 1995 presidential campaign. Donnedieu de Vabres was a advisor to the defense minister Francois Leotard in 1994 when a deal to sell three Agosta 90B diesel attack submarines to the Pakistan Navy was finalized.
French police has claimed that a firm Marleton Business Inc. which was  set up by Zardari was paid around 5.5 million francs (approximately 838,000 euros) in October 1994 “of which 70% goes to Monsieur Asif Ali Zardari (AAZ) and 30% to Monsieur Lodhi (AL).” A second installment of kickbacks of 59.48 million francs (approximately 9.06 million euros) were paid in in December which were “divided into 41.636 million [francs] for Monsieur Zardari and 17.844 million for Monsieur Lodhi”. 
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