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Pak Govt. allows former army chief to lead Saudi-led military alliance
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Mar. 25 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has given its approval to former chief of army staff general (Retd) Raheel Sharif to lead a 39-nation alliance of Muslim states led by Saudi Arabia by providing him with a No-Objection Certificate (NOC).
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Raheel Sharif should think before heading Islamic military alliance: Musha
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], Mar. 4 (ANI): Former Pakistan president General (Retd) Pervez Musharraf has said former army chief General (Retd) Raheel Sharif should think before accepting Saudi Arabia's offer to lead the Islamic military alliance.
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This election a soldier's grandson will defeat the king: SAD's J
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patiala (Punjab)[India], Feb. 04(ANI): Former Army Chief General (Retd.) JJ Singh, who is the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) candidate against Congress' Captain Amarinder Singh from Patiala Urban, on Saturday said that people will vote for him in majority, adding that this would be the first
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'Gumshuda' Captain Amarinder has no right to judge me: J. J. Sin
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patiala (Punjab) [India], Jan. 17 (ANI): Former army chief General (Retd.) J. J. Singh on Tuesday hit back at Captain Amarinder Singh and said that the Punjab Congress chief has no right to judge a person who has been decorated in every rank.
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Pak under pressure from India's successful missile programmes: Ex- ar
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Jan. 11 (ANI): Pakistan is getting pressurised by India's successful missile programmes and is trying to match its neighbour's nuclear infrastructure by resorting to propaganda on missile systems, said former army chief General (Retd.) Deepak Kapoor on Tuesday.
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Pak Senate questions govt. on ex-army chief Sharif's Saudi-led allian
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Jan. 10 (ANI): Pakistan Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has asked the Nawaz Sharif whether former army chief General (Retired) Raheel Sharif took its approval before accepting appointment of commander of the 39-nation Saudi-led military alliance.
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Capt. Amarinder always had easy opponents, now he has to face me: Ex army
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Patiala (Punjab)[India], Jan. 8(ANI): Throwing a challenge to Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh, former army chief turned politician retired General J.J. Singh of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday said the former had always won easy elections as there was no challenging opp
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Former Army chief J.J. Singh joins SAD
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab)[India], Jan. 7(ANI): The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday inducted ex-Army chief (retd) general J.J. Singh ahead of the Punjab state assembly polls, in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in Chandigarh who branded the development as 'histo
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Musharraf's remark on Raheel leaves Pak Govt. in a spot
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], Dec. 21 (ANI): Former military dictator Pervez Musharraf's claim that the Nawaz Sharif-led government was pressuring courts in cases against him and that former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif came to his rescue, has drawn strong criticism from legal and political circle
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Raheel Sharif helped me in leaving Pakistan: Musharraf
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec. 20 (ANI): Former Pakistan president general (retired) Pervez Musharraf has said former army chief general Raheel Sharif helped him to leave the country by influencing the courts
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Jamaat-e-Islami invites ex-army chief Sharif to join party
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Lahore (Punjab) [Pakistan], Dec.2 (ANI): The parliamentary leader of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in the Punjab Assembly, Dr. Waseem Akhtar, has invited former army chief General Raheel Sharif to join his party.
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'Crazy' V K Singh should be admitted to hospital: AAP
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov. 4(ANI): The Aam Aadmi Party on Friday asserted that the mental state of the Minister of State for External Affairs and former Army Chief V.K Singh should be examined and he should be admitted to a hospital as "he has gone crazy."
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