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Kashmir is an issue of proxy war: VK Singh
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Feb 19 (ANI): Days after the Pulwama terror attack, Union Minister and former Army Chief VK Singh has said that Kashmir is an issue of proxy war and the rise of terrorist activities in South Kashmir post-2012 needs an analysis.
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India will expose Pak to international community on terrorism front: V K S
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Shimla (Himachal Pradesh) [India], Feb 18 (ANI): Union Minister of State for External Affairs and former Army chief V K Singh on Monday said that under a diplomatic strategy India is exposing Pakistan to the international community.
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Pak should take action against JeM, Masood Azhar: VK Singh on Pulwama atta
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 15 (ANI): Union Minister and former Army Chief VK Singh on Friday asserted that Pakistan should take stringent action against the banned terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and its chief Masood Azhar after the dastardly terror attack in Pulwama.
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V K Singh raises questions over HAL's capability, cites recent crashes
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], Feb 14 (ANI): Union minister and former Army chief V K Singh has raised questions over the capability of the state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in refurbishing fighter planes, saying parts of aircraft had fallen off the runway, in an apparent referenc
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Request PM for high-level inquiry: V K Singh on 2012 coup reports
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 7 (ANI): Union Minister and former Army chief V K Singh on Thursday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to order a high-level enquiry into the alleged planting of "fallacious" stories to the media about an attempted coup in 2012.
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Troops carry guns, not cameras: Ex-Army chief
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 29 (ANI): Silencing those who demanded evidence to confirm the 2016 surgical strike, former Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Saturday said videos were not recorded to prove a point to anyone.
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Failure was not an option: former Army Chief Suhag on surgical strikes
Updated : 7 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 29 (ANI): Former Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Saturday revealed that the Indian Army had been preparing for the 2016 surgical strikes since June 2015, adding that the troops were told that "failure not an option".
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Former Army chief lauds PM Modi for approving surgical strikes
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] Sept 29 (ANI): Former Army Chief General Dalbir Singh Suhag on Friday said that it was very bold decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to approve 2015, 2016 surgical strikes in Myanmar and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) respectively.
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Gen. V.K. Singh expresses ire over Army Chief-General Dyer row
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 7 (ANI): Former Army Chief General V. K. Singh on Wednesday expressed his ire over scholar Partha Chatterjee's article where he compared incumbent Indian Army Chief General Bipin Rawat with British Genral Dyer.
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Former Pak army chief to quit Saudi-led Islamic alliance: Report
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], May 30 (ANI): Upset with the U.S. intervention in the Saudi-led military alliance of Islamic nations, Pakistan's former army chief General (Retd) Raheel Sharif is mulling over leaving the Islamic Military Alliance's command, according to a news report.
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PM prohibits PML-N leaders from giving controversial statements about Rahe
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad (Pakistan), Apr. 10 (ANI): Taking note of a string of recent statements about General (Retd.) Raheel Sharif, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has restricted the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders from passing any more controversial remarks about the former army chief.
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PTI against former Pak army chief leading Saudi-led military alliance
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 27 (ANI): The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) is not in favour of the government's decision to allow former army chief General (Retd.) Raheel Sharif to assume the command of a yet-to-be-formed Saudi-led 39-nation military alliance of Muslim states and has decid
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