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India-Pakistan
Raheel Sharif may assume command of Saudi-led force next month
2017-03-28
[DAWN] Retired army chief Gen Raheel Sharif
..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all....
is likely to assume in April the command of a yet-to-be-formed Saudi-led, 39-country Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism (IMAFT), which is being dubbed as a ’Moslem NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
It certainly is a concept...
The government had issued a no-objection certificate for Gen Sharif to join the alliance after an understanding was reached between Pakistain and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
on the matter, retired Maj Gen Ijaz Awan, a defence analyst and close associate of the former army chief, told Dawn on Saturday.

He said the former army chief would be taking charge ahead of a consultative meeting of the defence ministers of the alliance’s members, scheduled for May, in which the participating countries would decide about the force’s structure, their contributions in terms of personnel and armaments, the coalition reserve and other modalities.

Posted by:Fred

#1  He was pretty good in Doctor Zhivago. Or was that his brother?
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-03-28 10:12  

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