DefenceTalkPakistan military courts have sentenced nine men to death for terrorism-related offenses or attacks on minority Shiites, the army said Friday. Pakistan has hanged more than 300 people since lifting a moratorium on the death penalty in December 2014, many of them convicted in closed military courts which critics say fail to meet fair trial […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistan-army-courts-sentence-nine-militants-to-death-66228/

DefenceTalkPeshawar, Pakistan: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants attacked an air force base in the country’s restive northwest Friday, killing at least 17 people in their deadliest assault in months following a major military offensive against them. The military said more than a dozen insurgents entered the residential compound at the base near Peshawar, the gateway […]https://www.defencetalk.com/taliban-gunmen-kill-17-in-pakistan-air-force-base-attack-65430/

DefenceTalkPakistan’s army chief is holding talks with top US generals and officials this week in the first visit to the United States by the country’s powerful military commander in four years, officials said Monday. General Raheel Sharif’s trip comes against the backdrop of improved relations between the two governments with Washington encouraged by Pakistan’s offensive […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pakistani-army-chief-in-first-us-visit-61032/