FRANCE / INDIA Published on 16/08/2017 Business moghul Ambani is key partner for defence contracts between France and India
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PAKISTAN 24/09/2008 A Secret Border War The attack on the Marriott hotel in Pakistan’s capital formed part and parcel of a conflict pitting the Pakistan Army against Pakistani Talibans headed by Baitullah Mehsud. [...]
PAKISTAN 26/03/2008 Submarine Contracts Under Court Scrutiny With the operations of French warship constructor DCNS now the [...]
PAKISTAN 12/03/2008 Tighter Military Ties with Paris Sidelined in India, French defence companies are increasingly putting their money on Pakistan. [...]
PAKISTAN 16/01/2008 Pakistan Nuclear Security Concern Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, publicly voiced concern over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal on Jan. 8. The Europeans seem less prone to worrying. [...]
PAKISTAN 03/01/2008 International Inquiry into Bhutto? The son of Benazir Bhutto wants an international inquiry into the assassination of the opposition leader in order to avoid meddling by the Musharraf administration. [...]
PAKISTAN 31/10/2007 Ashfaz Pervez Kiani Named commander in chief of Pakistan’s armed forces early this [...]
PAKISTAN 03/10/2007 Musharraf Shuffles ISI Cards The decision by president Pervez Musharraf to quit his general’s uniform to seek re-election on Oct. 6 has set off [...]
PAKISTAN 21/06/2007 Race to the Wire for Scorpene Race to the Wire for Scorpene. Pakistan is generally expected [...]
PAKISTAN 24/05/2007 French Sub Could be Torpedoed Efforts by the French warship builder DCNS to sell its Scorpene submarine to Pakistan could be hampered by an investigation in Paris. [...]
PAKISTAN 19/04/2007 Al Qaeda’s Third Generation Reports from Arab embassies in Islamabad are analyzing the emergence of a “third generation” of al Qaeda leaders at the organization’s bases in Pakistan and Iran. [...]
PAKISTAN 25/01/2007 Chirac Touts French Submarine The French president has put in a strong word with Pakistan in favour of a French submarine that is competing with German and Spanish boats for a contract. [...]
PAKISTAN 19/10/2006 Intellligence Rift Profits Musharraf Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf is walking a tightrope as internal rifts widen in his intelligence agencies. [...]
PAKISTAN 27/10/2005 Censuring Satellite Pictures Citing national security reasons, Pakistan banned the dissemination of satellite images destined to help rescuers reach the victims of the recent earthquake in the northern part of the country. [...]
UNITED STATESPAKISTAN 02/12/2004 Trading Weapons for Intelligence Announced on Nov. 20, the lifting of the U.S. embargo on arms sales to Pakistan was preceded by a house-cleaning at the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. [...]
Spotlight SAUDI ARABIAPAKISTAN 21/10/2004 A Tighter Riyadh-Islamabad Military Bond The strategic ties that Saudi Arabia has been forging for the past year with Pakistan are destined in the end to replace America's military umbrella. Following a first-ever visit by Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Abdallah bin Abdul Aziz, to Pakistan [...]
PAKISTAN 23/09/2004 Still Doing the Good Work Officially listed by the United States, Pakistan and the European [...]
PAKISTAN 22/04/2004 Washington Pays Back F-16 Down Payment According to a diplomatic source, the U.S. has finally decided [...]
PAKISTAN 08/04/2004 Ehsanul Gul The head of the all-powerful Pakistani military intelligence agency, Inter-Services [...]
IRAQIRANPAKISTAN 11/03/2004 Pakistan & Iran at Work In Iraq? The sophisticated preparation and coordination of anti-Shi'ite bomb attacks in Kerbala and Baghdad raises a lot of questions. [...]
PAKISTAN 29/01/2004 How to Organize DCN's Security ? The arrival of a new security chief at the French [...]
UNITED STATESPAKISTAN 01/01/2004 Cracking Down on Suppliers The U.S. declared war on the suppliers of nuclear equipment long before Iran signed the additional TNP protocol on Dec. 18 and Libya subsequently announced it was abandoning its weapons of mass destruction program. [...]
PAKISTAN 13/11/2003 A Future for Islamic Research? The question of how to develop scientific research in Islamic [...]
SAUDI ARABIAPAKISTAN 30/10/2003 The Real Saudi-Pakistani Pact A number of major agreements were struck during the first-ever visit of Saudi crown prince Abdallah to Pakistan on Oct. 18-19. [...]
IRANPAKISTAN 18/09/2003 Pakistan's Helping Hand in Iran For obvious diplomatic reasons, Washington wouldn't be willing to publicly accuse Pakistan of helping Iran to develop its nuclear capacity. [...]
AFGHANISTANPAKISTANTURKMENISTAN 09/01/2003 Trans-Afghan Back in Business The project for a trans-Afghanistan pipeline which the World Bank has been handling since last year (IOL 430) now seems likely to take off. That is, if stability in the region allows for it. [...]