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April 2016 - Pakistan Special Weapons News
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- Obama Scraps Subsidy in $700Mln F-16 Sale to Pakistan Sputnik 29 Apr 2016 -- US President Barack Obama's administration plans to abandon the plan to subsidize the $700 million deal to sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, a senior US State Department official said Friday.
- Afghanistan Outraged About Taliban's Pakistan Visit VOA 28 Apr 2016 -- Afghanistan has criticized Pakistan for allowing a Taliban delegation to visit the neighboring country, saying "a terrorist organization" should not have been been allowed to undertake such activities.
- Pakistan looking for Russian air defense systems: Defense min. IRNA 28 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan defense minister says Islamabad and Moscow are in talks on sales of military helicopters, air defense systems and modernized tanks.
- Pakistan in Talks With Russia on Sales of Helicopters, Air Defense Sputnik 27 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan and Russia are in talks on sales of helicopters, air defense systems and modernized tanks, Defense Minister of Pakistan Khawaja Asif told Sputnik on Wednesday.
- Afghan Taliban Confirms Delegation Visiting Pakistan VOA 27 Apr 2016 -- Afghanistan's Taliban has confirmed it has sent a "high-level' delegation to Islamabad for talks with Pakistani officials, saying it hopes the visit will have "fruitful results" and "in the interest of both countries."
- India Urges Pakistan To Quickly Prosecute Militants For Air Base Attack RFE/RL 27 Apr 2016 -- India has urged Pakistan to make "early and visible" progress in prosecuting militants responsible for an attack on an Indian air base as the two sides resumed talks on April 26.
- Afghan Taliban team in Pakistan to restart peace talks Press TV 26 Apr 2016 -- An Afghan Taliban delegation has arrived in Pakistan to discuss the resumption of peace talks with the Kabul government, officials and militant sources say.
- India Pushes Pakistan to Clamp Down on Terrorism VOA 26 Apr 2016 -- India's top diplomat pressed his Pakistani counterpart on Tuesday to acknowledge and combat terrorism aimed at the Indian state, and to make "visible progress" on investigating violence.
- Afghan Taliban Negotiators Arrive in Pakistan for Initial Talks VOA 25 Apr 2016 -- A group of Taliban negotiators has arrived in Pakistan from the Islamist insurgency's political office in Qatar for "exploratory" meetings with authorities in Islamabad, diplomatic sources confirmed Monday to VOA.
- Afghan Leader Demands Removal of Taliban from Pakistan VOA 25 Apr 2016 -- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has demanded neighboring Pakistan evict fugitive Taliban leaders from its soil and hand them over to Kabul for trial.
- Pakistani Premier Says Will Resign If Inquiry Finds Wrongdoing RFE/RL 23 Apr 2016 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif bowed to opposition demands that he ask Pakistan's chief justice to set up an independent commission to investigate offshore accounts linked to his family.
- Pakistan 'Assures' Afghan Minister Talks with Taliban to Resume in a Month VOA 23 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan has assured neighboring Afghanistan that peace talks with the Taliban "will resume in a month" to find a peaceful end to the Afghan conflict.
- Pakistan captures Qaeda financier blacklisted by UN Press TV 22 Apr 2016 -- Pakistani security officials have arrested a senior al-Qaeda member who has been on the United Nations Security Council sanctions list since 2012.
- Pakistan sacks six army officers over corruption Press TV 22 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan has sacked six high-ranking army officers, including two generals, who were convicted of being involved in corruption.
- Taliban Fatally Shoot Sikh Lawmaker in Pakistan VOA 22 Apr 2016 -- Taliban extremists in northwestern Pakistan on Friday gunned down a provincial legislator belonging to the minority Sikh community.
- Afghan Official: Kabul Attack Set Back Peace Efforts, Ties with Pakistan VOA 22 Apr 2016 -- Afghanistan's national flag flew at "half-staff" in government offices and special prayers were offered in mosques across the country Friday to pay respects to the victims of this week's deadly Taliban attack in Kabul.
- Pakistan Army Chief Dismisses Top Officers for Corruption VOA 21 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan's powerful military chief, General Raheel Sharif, has dismissed a group of top officers from service over corruption charges.
- Over 140 militants surrender in Pakistan's Baluchistan Press TV 19 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan says more than 140 "disillusioned" militants have laid down their arms in the southwestern Baluchistan province in what Islamabad views as a major victory in the militancy-riddled province.
- Iran, Pakistan to conduct joint drill in Bandar Abbas IRNA 17 Apr 2016 -- Iranian and Pakistani vessels are to carry out a joint military exercise on April 18, Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said here Sunday.
- Pakistan denies involvement in 2009 attack on CIA base Press TV 15 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan has dismissed as "preposterous" US claims that its Inter–Services Intelligence (ISI) agency helped fund a deadly attack on a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) outpost in Afghanistan in 2009.
- Pakistan Rejects Allegation of Plotting Raid on CIA's Afghan Base VOA 15 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan on Friday rejected as "preposterous" allegations that its spy agency had links with the Haqqani network of militants and played a role in the 2009 suicide attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan.
- Declassified US Document Suggests Pakistan Link in 2009 CIA Base Attack VOA 14 Apr 2016 -- A newly declassified U.S. document claims that a Pakistani intelligence officer paid $200,000 to a militant network to carry out a suicide attack on a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan in 2009.
- Pakistan's ISI suspected of funding attack on CIA outpost: Documents Press TV 14 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan's intelligence agency may have provided terror groups with the necessary funds to carry out a deadly attack on a US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) base in Afghanistan, newly declassified US State Department cables allege.
- China, Pakistan Ready New Cargo Port VOA 14 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan's newly-built cargo port of Gwadar sits on a remote, unspoiled coastline in the country's far southwest. Just beyond the port's two semi-circular bays, the Arabian Sea meets the Persian Gulf, and local fishermen ply the crystal blue waters as they have for generations.
- Pakistan Accuses India of Plotting Against Deal With China VOA 12 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan's military chief on Tuesday accused India's intelligence agency of planning subversive activities against his country's recently launched multi-billion-dollar economic cooperation agreement with China.
- Pakistani Prime Minister Coming Under Pressure VOA 10 Apr 2016 -- A main political rival in Pakistan has demanded that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif step down, after documents leaked from a Panama-based law firm revealed his children own several offshore companies.
- Sub-Continental Divide: India-Pakistan Relations Return to Square One Sputnik 09 Apr 2016 -- India – Pakistan relations are on a topsy-turvy path again: despite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's diplomatic efforts to mend ties, things are not going in the right direction.
- US Navy Orders 9 Bell Combat Helicopters for Pakistan Sputnik 05 Apr 2016 -- Bell Helicopter has won a US Navy contract to manufacture nine AH-1Z Viper combat helicopters for Pakistan.
- Pakistan PM Promises Probe Into Family Investments VOA 05 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says he is creating an independent judicial commission to investigate whether his family is involved in illegal overseas investments.
- Family Of Pakistan's Sharif Says Offshore Wealth Holdings Not Illegal RFE/RL 05 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan has denied any wrongdoing by the family of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after it was linked to offshore wealth holdings in the massive "Panama Papers" scandal.
- Nawaz Sharif: Pakistan's Unlikely Reformer RFE/RL 04 Apr 2016 -- He is a veteran conservative politician known for attempting to introduce strict Shari'a law in Pakistan in the late 1990s before a military coup temporarily sent him into exile. But since his return as prime minister, Nawaz Sharif has emerged as an unlikely torch-bearer for reform.
- Sharif Family Defends Offshore Assets, Denies Wrongdoing VOA 04 Apr 2016 -- Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's family has defended ownership of their offshore companies and property, denying any wrongdoing in their development.
- Pakistan in Final Phase to 'Clear' Border Tribal Regions VOA 03 Apr 2016 -- Pakistan's military said it killed more than 250 militants and lost eight soldiers in counterinsurgency operations near the Afghan border in the past two months.
- Taliban sold Indian spy to Pakistani intelligence: Senior German diplomat Press TV 03 Apr 2016 -- The Taliban sold an Indian spy to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), says a high-ranking German diplomat.
- Pakistan Asks Tehran for Details About Alleged Indian Spy VOA 01 Apr 2016 -- Pakistani authorities asked Iran to investigate a suspected Indian spy arrested last month in Baluchistan.
- India, Pakistan Make Progress on Pathankot Terror Attack Probe Sputnik 01 Apr 2016 -- Agreements have been reached on an investigation into the Pathankot airbase attack between Indian and Pakistani investigators, top sources said after Thursday's meeting in New Delhi.
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