Foreign Affairs

  Islamabad: Pakistan government restrictions on the country's defence industry are stifling potential and must go, says Haroon Qureshi, president of the trade body Pakistan Aerospace Council (PAeC). PAeC is a collective group of aerospace, defence...

Washington: Even as Pentagon focuses on developing new technologies such as artificial intelligence and directed energy, department officials have declared the need to ensure foreign nations are not buying their way into the defence-industrial...

  New Delhi: Ahead of the next round of Sino-Indian military talks, troops from both countries have begun mutual disengagement in some parts of eastern Ladakh, government sources said on June 9. Top military talks are...

  New Delhi: Even as efforts were on to resolve the ongoing Sino-Indian border tensions in Eastern Ladakh, there are reports that the Chinese Army has increased the activities of its helicopters on its side...

Cologne: In a move aimed at NATO playing a bigger role in international affairs, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wants the alliance to help nations in the Asia-Pacific region contend with China’s rise. “Military strength...

Wellington: New Zealand’s military said it will buy five Super Hercules transport planes from Lockheed Martin for US$1 billion. The planes will replace the military's existing fleet of Hercules, all of which are more than...

  Cologne: Amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, navies from 19 NATO members and partners kicked off the 2020 iteration of the “Baltic Operations” exercise which this year excludes any amphibious drills to avoid the risk...

  Melbourne: In case of inking of new strategic arms control treaty by China, it could lose almost all of its ballistic and cruise missiles says a new regional security assessment. The analysis titled “The End...

Hong Kong: Coinciding with the anniversary of Tiananmen Square crackdown of 1989, a US navy vessel sailed through the Taiwan Strait on June 4, the US and Taiwanese militaries have said. The Taiwan defence ministry...

New Delhi: There are about 6,500 Pakistanis as foreign terrorist fighters in Afghanistan including 1,000 belonging to Pakistan based terror groups like Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, says a UN Report. Most of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba...

  Washington: As nation wide protests against the killing of African-American George Floyd by a policeman in Minnesota continued unabated, President Donald Trump on June 1 promised to mobilise active-duty military assets to deal with...

Washington: For the first time in a move to test homeland defences of US, an exercise brings four combatant commands together this week to simulate how the military would respond to an attack on...

Cologne: The defence plans of the European Union are back as revealed in a new budget proposal as the continent pushes to revive its economy following the Coronavirus crisis. Two flagship programmes — the European...