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Sunday's exercises were meant to replicate a counter offensive against an invading ground force. They included 21 bombing runs by various Pakistani jets, displays of anti-aircraft weaponry, tanks moving in formation and round after round of heavy artillery.

''It is meant to signal internally that we are back to where we belong,'' said Moeed Yusuf, from the Washington DC-based thinktank, United States Institute of Peace. ''For the world, it signals that India remains the principal threat.''
There was no immediate comment from New Delhi. India generally refrains from commenting on such scheduled exercises.

Those watching - including the prime minister, the country's military leaders and politicians - clapped as targets were hit some 2,000 meters away across the shimmering, dusty Cholistan Desert. The loudest round of applause was for when an unmanned drone was shot out of the sky by a barrage of anti-aircraft fire.

After watching a display, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani several times mentioned the successes in the northwest.

''The world sees Pakistan as a bulwark against extremism and militancy. It is in this struggle the nation has pledged to support the armed forces. Pakistan is fully committed to the struggle in the west,'' he said.


Military launches biggest-ever war games



KARACHI: Pakistan’s military forces launched the country’s biggest military war games on Saturday.
The exercises, code named ‘Azm-e-Nau,’ will deploy 50,000 soldiers from the artillery, infantry and armoured corps units for one month.
Azm-e-Nau is said to be Pakistan’s biggest war-games in more than 20 years, and will be carried out near Pakistan’s eastern border with India
Earlier his month, Pakistan Air Force held a demonstration for invited guests, including foreign defence officials, in Punjab to show its capacity to contribute to the fight against militants.
The military says all available surveillance and reconnaissance assets will be utilised in the exercise to validate their efficiency.
Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani declared the years 2009-2010 as the ‘year of training’ based on the current security situation.

s Army training aircraft crashes near Peshawar



PESHAWAR: An army training aircraft crashed on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing the pilot on Thursday.
According to the police, Pakistan Army's Mushaq aircraft was on a routine training mission when it crashed in Nelavi area in the open fields.
The wreckage of the aircraft has been found and the body of pilot has been shifted to Combined Military Hospital Peshawar.
Police said the aircraft may have crashed because of technical fault, however, the ISP is still investigating the reason of the crash.




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