His Excellency Zamir Kabulov, Special Envoy of the President of Russian Federation to Afghanistan called on Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at General Headquarters today.
The visiting dignitary remained with him for some time and discussed matters of mutual interest.

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His Excellency Zamir Kabulov, Special Envoy of the President of Russian Federation to Afghanistan called on Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at General Headquarters today. (31-05-2012)- Phot ISPR

Lieutenant General Peter Scheizing, Commander German Air Force called on General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee here at Joint Staff Headquarters. The visiting dignitary remained with the Chairman for sometime and discussed matters related to professional interests.

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Lieutenant General Peter Scheizing, Commander German Air Force called on General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee at Joint Staff Headquarters today. (31-05-2012)- Photo ISPR

Pakistan, today conducted a successful Flight Test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra�ad).  The Ra�ad Missile, with a range of over 350 KM, enables Pakistan to achieve strategic standoff capability on land and at Sea. �Cruise Technology� is extremely complex and has been developed by only a few countries in the world.  The state of the art Ra�ad Cruise Missile with Stealth Capabilities is a Low Altitude, Terrain Hugging Missile with high maneuverability, and can deliver nuclear and conventional warheads with pin point accuracy.
A major additional feature of today�s test was the effective employment of the National Command Authority�s fully automated Strategic Command and Control Support System (SCCSS).  It has enabled robust Command and Control capability of all strategic assets with round the clock situational awareness in a digitized network centric environment to decision makers at National Command Centre (NCC).  The system has the added capability of real time remote monitoring of missile flight path.
The successful launch has been commended by the President, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, and Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee who have congratulated the scientists and engineers on their outstanding achievement.

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Pakistan, conducted a successful Flight Test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile, Hatf-VIII (Ra�ad) today. (31-05-2012) �Photo ISPR 

In an impressive passing out ceremony, a new batch of 500 security soldiers of the Strategic Plans Division graduated from the Sindh Regimental Centre at Hyderabad. Director General Operations and Plans, Strategic Plans Division, Major General Ausaf Ali was the Chief Guest.
Addressing the Parade, the Chief Guest expressed his deep satisfaction on the quality of training imparted, the overall standard attained and the high morale and motivation level of the graduating soldiers. He emphasized that the soldiers have been entrusted with the most sacred responsibility of safeguarding the National Strategic Assets, therefore no stone is to be left unturned in performance of this duty. The Chief Guest specially appreciated the faculty members for their professional acumen and dedication / devotion towards training this batch.
It may be recalled that the SPD has undertaken a comprehensive plan to significantly augment the capacity of its Security Force to ensure fool proof security of Strategic Assets.  The batch will assume security responsibilities with the existing force of nearly 20,000 security troops of SPD.

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Major General Ausaf Ali taking salute from newly passed out SPD soldiers at Sindh Regiment Center, Hyderabad. � Photo ISPR

School children paying homage and offering prayers for Gayari  Shuhada at TM Chowk Rawalpindi today. (31-05-2012) � Photo ISPR