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15 novembre 2014 6 15 /11 /novembre /2014 17:35
Mil Mi-35 photo Irina Grekov

Mil Mi-35 photo Irina Grekov

 

15/11/2014 avia news

 

La Russie vient d’approuver l’accord de vente concernant un lot d’hélicoptères lourds d'attaque Mil Mi-35 «Hind E» au Pakistan. Cette vente concerne un total de 20 hélicoptères entièrement équipés.

 

L'armée pakistanaise a choisi le Mi-35 en raison de sa satisfaction avec ses hélicoptères russes de type Mi-17 qu’elle a utilisé précédemment. Mais le plus intéressant dans cette vente provient du changement de politique de la Russie qui équipe fortement le voisin Indien. La Russie, qui limite l’exportation du Mi-35 au Pakistan avec seulement vingt exemplaires, semble vouloir appuyer la lutte de l’armée pakistanaise dans sa campagne contre les talibans dans la région du Waziristan du nord le long de la frontière afghane.

 

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13 novembre 2014 4 13 /11 /novembre /2014 13:35
Hatf-IV Shaheen-2 missile

Hatf-IV Shaheen-2 missile

 

ISLAMABAD, 13 novembre - RIA Novosti

 

Les militaires pakistanais ont testé jeudi avec succès un missile balistique modernisé de moyenne portée Hatf-IV, capable de porter une ogive nucléaire, rapporte le service de presse de l'armée pakistanaise.

 

Le missile Hatf-IV Shaheen-2, d'une portée de 1.500 kilomètres, a atteint sa cible située en mer d'Arabie. Le lancement a été suivi par de hauts responsables de l'armée pakistanaise.

 

D'après le Service de recherche du Congrès US, le Pakistan possède aujourd'hui entre 90 et 110 ogives nucléaires. En 2010, la revue américaine Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists estimait qu'Islamabad détenait entre 70 et 90 ogives.

 

L'Inde, principal ennemi potentiel du Pakistan, possède, selon diverses estimations, entre 80 et 100 ogives nucléaires

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9 octobre 2014 4 09 /10 /octobre /2014 23:45
Centrafrique: un Casque bleu tué dans une embuscade près de Bangui

 

09 octobre 2014 23h45 Romandie.com(AFP)

 

Nations unies (Etats-Unis) - Un Casque bleu a été tué et huit autres ont été blessés lors d'une embuscade contre un convoi de la mission de l'ONU en République centrafricaine (Minusca) jeudi soir près de Bangui, a indiqué l'ONU.

 

Le Casque bleu tué est un officier pakistanais et les blessés appartiennent aux contingents du Pakistan et du Bangladesh opérant au sein de la Minusca, a précisé à l'AFP un responsable de l'ONU.

 

Le convoi a été attaqué par des éléments armés non identifiés alors qu'il circulait dans le district PK11, aux abords de la capitale. Un des blessés est gravement touché et les autres plus légèrement.

 

Il s'agit du premier Casque bleu de la Minusca tué depuis le déploiement de la force de l'ONU à la mi-septembre.

 

Dans un communiqué, le représentant spécial de l'ONU et chef de la Minusca, le général Babacar Gaye, a condamné dans les termes les plus forts cette attaque.

 

Il a rappelé que la Minusca s'est déployée dans le pays à la demande des Centrafricains pour appuyer leur processus de transition, pour protéger les civils et les droits de l'homme et pour aider à la restauration de l'Etat.

 

Ce crime contre les forces des Nations unies, qui sont ici pour aider le peuple de la République centrafricaine, est inacceptable et les responsables devront répondre de leurs actes et être traduits devant la justice, a affirmé le général Gaye.

 

Nous continuerons de prendre des mesures robustes contre les criminels qui menacent les civils, a-t-il encore déclaré.

 

Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU doit publier dans la soirée une déclaration sur la situation à Bangui.

 

La capitale centrafricaine a été de nouveau secouée jeudi par des violences inter-communautaires qui ont fait au moins sept morts et plusieurs dizaines de blessés en deux jours, provoquant de nouveaux déplacements de populations après des semaines d'accalmie en Centrafrique.

 

La force onusienne, créée en avril par une résolution du Conseil de sécurité, s'est déployée à partir du 15 septembre et doit compter 12.000 soldats et policiers à effectif plein.

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9 octobre 2014 4 09 /10 /octobre /2014 16:35
Cachemire : tirs meurtriers entre l'Inde et le Pakistan

 

09.10.2014 Le Monde.fr avec AFP

 

Le ton se durcit entre l'Inde et le Pakistan au sujet du Cachemire, cette région montagneuse revendiquée par les deux pays. Le ministre de la défense indien a exhorté le Pakistan à cesser ses tirs contre les positions indiennes dans cette région, après des accrochages ayant causé la mort d'au moins dix-sept civils dans les deux camps depuis lundi, selon le dernier bilan.

« Si le Pakistan persiste dans son aventurisme, nos forces rendront le coût de cet aventurisme inabordable », a-t-il dit à des journalistes à New Delhi.

 

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2 octobre 2014 4 02 /10 /octobre /2014 11:35
Exelis’ AN/ALQ-211(V)9 pod cleared for installation on Pakistani F-16 fighters

Exelis- AN/ALQ-211(V)9 AIDEWS has been cleared to fly on board Pakistani Air Force's F 16 fighter aircraft. Photo Exelis

 

1 October 2014 airforce-technology.com

 

The Exelis-built AN/ALQ-211(V)9 advanced integrated defensive electronic warfare system (AIDEWS) has been cleared to fly on board the Pakistan Air Force's F-16 fighter aircraft.

 

The clearance follows completion of the US Air Force's (USAF) Seek Eagle process for aircraft stores certification, which included a series of compatibility flight profile (CFP) missions designed to clear the pod to the F-16's basic limits.

 

Working in collaboration with the USAF and Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, the Exelis team evaluated two stores configurations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, to capture current and future pod configuration requirements without the need for additional CFP missions.

 

Exelis integrated electronic warfare systems business vice-president and general manager Joe Rambala said: "The AIDEWS pod provides the US and its allies with a modular, highly capable and cost-effective survivability system for a range of fighter aircraft.

 

"Achieving this certification will give more pilots access to the system's advanced RF protection and the flexibility to meet the evolving RF threat."

 

Currently limited to F-16A/B Block 15 aircraft procured by PAF through the Peace Drive 2 foreign military sales programme, the certification can be readily extended to both domestic and foreign F-16 Blocks 25 to 52 fighters.

 

An external pod variant of the Exelis ALQ-211 family of electronic self-protection systems, AN/ALQ-211(V)9 is a self-contained integrated electronic countermeasures and radar warning receiver system designed to protect the F-16 fighter from radio frequency threats.

 

Offering the flexibility to be installed or removed based on mission requirements, the pod provides digital radar warning, high-power jamming, threat geo-location and situational awareness using line replaceable units interchangeable with internal AIDEWS systems.

 

The AN/ALQ-211(V)9 is claimed to be the only digital radio frequency memory-based electronic warfare pod certified to F-16 basic aircraft limits, including requirements for lightning protection.

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8 septembre 2014 1 08 /09 /septembre /2014 16:35
Pakistan receives last upgraded F-16s

 

08.09.2014 by Tolga Ozbek - FG

 

Turkish Aerospace Industries has delivered its last four modernised Lockheed Martin F-16A/Bs to the Pakistan air force, concluding a “Peace Drive 2” programme signed in 2009.

 

A total of 41 aircraft have undergone avionics and structural modernisation activity at TAI’s Kazan/Ankara facilities since work started in 2010. This involved the replacement of more than 1,300 parts, with each aircraft taking around six months to update. The company also provided training for Pakistan air force personnel.

 

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9 août 2014 6 09 /08 /août /2014 16:35
Pakistan Appoints New Defense Secretary

 

Aug. 6, 2014 - By USMAN ANSARI – Defense news

 

ISLAMBAD — Pakistan has appointed a new defense secretary, Mohammad Alam Khattak, a retired lieutenant general. His predecessor, Asif Yasin Malik, stepped down this week after two years on the job.

 

Khttak's appointment was approved by the Prime Minister on Monday and he is expected to take up the position soon.

 

Usually filled by a retired senior military officer, the secretary’s post involves coordinating between the military and civilian leadership.

 

Khattak retired in October as the commander of the Quetta-based Southern Command. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the Chief of Logistics Staff at Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi. His frontline experience involved command of an infantry division and heading the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the Inspector General, Frontier Corps (IGFC).

 

As IGFC, Khattak drew some controversy for "talking with the extremists ... to try to get them to see reason," said Brian Cloughley, former Australian defense attache to Islamabad.

 

"There wasn't a hope of that, and there was some criticism of him at the time. It's always easy to be wise after the event, and this was realized by the [Chief of Army Staff], and he was promoted and did well," Cloughley said.

 

He said he believes Khattak will perform well in his new job and there are unlikely to be any surprises.

 

"He seems to get on well with the civilian bureaucracy, and is obviously in favor with the government, so things should go smoothly. I don't think he'll rock any boats. But the position of Secretary will always remain advisory,” he said

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18 juin 2014 3 18 /06 /juin /2014 12:35
Asia’s Coming Nuclear Arms Race

 

18 June 2014 By Zachary Keck
 
The introduction of MIRVed missiles in Asia is likely to prompt a major nuclear arms races in the region.
 
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the future of nuclear weapons is Asia, not the Middle East.
The Pacific Realist outlines one reason for this conviction in an article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on Tuesday. The piece argues that the U.S., Russia, China, India and Pakistan should negotiate a ban on land-based multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) ballistic missiles. Currently, the U.S. and Russia both deploy such missiles, and Beijing and New Delhi are both intent on acquiring them.
Should they succeed in this endeavor, there is likely to be a nuclear arms race in Asia among China, India and Pakistan, which could very quickly spread to Russia and the United States. MIRVed missiles are highly destabilizing because they put a premium on striking first. Because MIRVed missiles can strike multiple targets at once, and concentrate multiple warheads on single targets, they increase the danger that a nuclear armed power will have its nuclear arsenal destroyed by a surprise first strike. In addition, possessors of MIRVed missiles need more nuclear warheads in order to arm their MIRVs. 
 
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17 juin 2014 2 17 /06 /juin /2014 16:35
La Chine entraîne des casques bleus étrangers

 

 

2014-06-16 xinhua

 

Le ministère chinois de la Défense nationale et le Département des opérations de maintien de la paix de l'ONU ont commencé lundi une session d'entraînement de 12 jours pour des casques bleus venus de 18 pays.

 

Les 33 personnes prenant part à cet entraînement comprennent dix Chinois et des officiers venus d'Inde, du Pakistan, de Malaisie, de République de Corée et d'autres pays d'Asie.

 

L'un des sept formateurs est un expert médical de l'Armée populaire de libération (APL, armée chinoise). La session d'entraînement se tient une ou deux fois par an dans d'importantes installations de maintien de la paix à travers le monde et utilisent les critères et modules les plus récents.

 

La Chine a organisé trois sessions avec l'ONU au cours des quatre dernières années.

 

Un responsable du bureau de maintien de la paix du ministère chinois de la Défense nationale a indiqué que la Chine avait établi un système d'entraînement relativement complet pour les casques bleus.

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11 juin 2014 3 11 /06 /juin /2014 07:35
Pakistan negotiating MI-35 helicopter deal‏ with Russia: envoy

 

June 11th, 2014 defencetalk.com

 

Pakistan has placed an order to Russia for purchase of the latest MI-35 Helicopters for multipurpose use including fighting terrorism, Russian Ambassador to Pakistan Alexey Y. Dedov told a news conference at the Russian embassy in Islamabad.

 

“The deal is still being negotiated between Russian and Pakistani defense officials and hopefully would be finalized soon,” Dedov told the media.

 

The Russian envoy said there has been never any ban on the sale of Russian military equipment to Pakistan.

 

“There is ongoing cooperation with Pakistan in the field of defense and counter-terrorism and security,” Dedov said.

 

He also informed the media that Adviser on National Security and Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz would be visiting the Russian city of Kazan to participate in the “5th International Meeting of High-Level Officials Responsible for Security Matters from 18-20 June, 2014.

 

Sartaj Aziz would also meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the visit, the envoy said.

 

Dedov also reiterated the desire of the Russian Federation to strengthen its bilateral relations with Pakistan in all spheres.

 

The Russian envoy while stating concern over rising incidents of terrorism in Pakistan, expressed sympathies with the victims and offered cooperation to Pakistan in countering terrorism.

 

“Presence of Uzeb, Tajik, ETIM militants in Pakistan’s tribal areas are posing a security threat to the entire region and collective efforts are needed to tackle this menace,” Dedov remarked.

 

He also feared that after the withdrawal of Nato troops from Afghanistan, security would be a big challenge for the Afghan National Security Forces.

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29 avril 2014 2 29 /04 /avril /2014 11:35
Inde-Pakistan : la course aux armements prend de l’ampleur

 

MOSCOU, 29 avril - RIA Novosti

 

L’Inde avance à grands pas dans la course aux armements : après l’essai du missile de moyenne portée Akash, capable d’intercepter des chasseurs et des missiles de croisière, l’armée de l’air a remporté un nouveau succès avec le missile d’interception Prithvi Defence Vehicle, qui a atteint sa cible dans l’espace extra-atmosphérique. Cette intensification des efforts pour la création d’un « potentiel de dissuasion » intervient à l’approche du duel électoral impliquant le leader de l’opposition et éventuel candidat au poste de premier ministre Narendra Modi, qui tient un discours austère vis-à-vis du Pakistan et de la Chine. La promesse par l’opposition de revoir la doctrine nucléaire de l’Inde si elle arrivait au pouvoir a également fait beaucoup de bruit, écrit mardi le quotidien Kommersant.

 

Le lancement du missile intercepteur Prithvi Defence Vehicle, d’une portée de 2 000 km, a eu lieu au polygone Integrated Test Range à Chandipur, dans le district de Balasore. Trois minutes plus tôt un navire indien se trouvant dans le golfe du Bengale avait lancé un « missile ennemi », qui avait été détecté par Prithvi Defence Vehicle et anéanti à plus de 100 km d’altitude. La cible a été identifiée grâce au réseau informatique, qui avait calculé avec précision la trajectoire du missile et ses coordonnées.

 

L’Inde avait déjà procédé à six essais d’intercepteurs pour abattre des « missiles ennemis » à une altitude comprise entre 30 et 80 km. Le lancement du Prithvi Defence Vehicle s’est tenu quelques jours après les essais du missile Akash de moyenne portée, capable d’éliminer des drones, des chasseurs et des missiles balistiques. Courant avril, le ministère indien de la Défense a même testé le missile de croisière supersonique BraMos d’une portée de 290 km, et le missile Prithvi 2 d’une portée de 350 km.L’Inde et le Pakistan, ennemis géopolitiques jurés, mènent en général leurs essais simultanément. Cette fois, Islamabad a seulement réagi par un essai du missile Hatf III Ghaznavi, d’une portée de 290 km et capable d’embarquer une ogive nucléaire.

 

Cette attention particulière accordée aux essais balistiques s’explique par l’approche des législatives en Inde, dont les résultats seront annoncés le 16 mai. Le favori de la course, le leader du parti Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP : Parti du peuple Indien) Narendra Modi, a toutes les chances de devenir le nouveau premier ministre. Il s’est déjà distingué avec certaines déclarations dures vis-à-vis du Pakistan et d’un autre adversaire régional de l’Inde – la Chine, qui dispose d’un arsenal balistique nucléaire plus conséquent. De plus, l’un des paragraphes du manifeste de campagne du BJP, intitulé « Le programme nucléaire de l’Inde », a fait beaucoup parler de lui. Ce document annonce que la doctrine nucléaire du pays doit être « revue et mise à jour pour répondre aux défis de l’époque ».

 

Certains interprètent cette déclaration comme une allusion au fait que si Narendra Modi arrivait au pouvoir, il renoncerait à l’approche actuelle de l’arme nucléaire, perçue comme défensive par New Delhi. Pour apaiser la tension, Modi a précisé dans une récente interview qu’il n’était pas question de renoncer au principe fondamental de la stratégie défensive du pays : l’arme nucléaire ne sera jamais utilisée pour commettre une première attaque. Cependant, les promesses d’apporter des modifications à la doctrine de défense pourraient entraîner le forçage des programmes de modernisation du potentiel nucléaire balistique. Selon les experts, une telle politique pourrait mener à une nouvelle course aux armements en Asie.

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16 avril 2014 3 16 /04 /avril /2014 07:35
PLAAF J-10B Multirole Fighter

PLAAF J-10B Multirole Fighter

 

 

Apr. 15, 2014 Asian Defence News

 

Tough IMF conditions on Pakistan and others concern ( PAF busy in the further development of JF-17)  likely will delay Islamabad's plan to buy 36 J-10B Vigorous Dragon multirole fighters from China under a $1.4 billion deal signed in 2009, analysts said.

 

Current economic conditions "preclude any possibility of acquiring new weapon systems in the next two to three years, at least," said retired Pakistani Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail, a veteran fighter and test pilot who is now an independent military analyst in Lahore.

 

Under IMF loan terms, the government faces harsh conditions on raising revenue and controlling spending, including on military equipment.

 

A Chinese defense delegation visited Pakistan the last week of September to discuss the status of stalled defense deals. Whether this included the J-10 order is unclear.

 

The J-10B Super-10 is an advanced variant of the J-10A, first fielded in late 2003 with China's Air Force. The new Super-10 will reportedly be powered by the Chinese-designed WS-10A turbofan engine, which will replace the J-10A's Russian Saturn AL-31FN. Built by Chengdu Aircraft Industries, the jet is based on Israel's Lavi indigenous fighter program by Israel Aerospace Industries that was canceled in 1987.

 

Even if a friendly Arab Gulf state provided financing, Tufail said more used Lockheed Martin F-16Cs from US stocks are preferable, "rather than trying out a new weapon system that is an unknown commodity in the realm of modern-day combat."

 

Tufail questioned the wisdom of buying one squadron of J-10s.

 

To be cost effective "at least three to four squadrons would justify the additional wherewithal and maintenance facilities that would be needed," he said.

 

Over-reliance on US high-technology equipment like fighters worries Pakistani officials, and while Tufail said diversification "be explored fully, with China and Russia as suitable sources," in the case of the fighter, the government may not have another option.

 

Should a deal occur, however, Tufail foresees no problems with directly or indirectly acquiring Russian equipment such as the J-10's AL-31FN engine.

 

The J-10B was first revealed to the public in early 2009. Images appearing on Chinese-language military websites indicate the J-10B had a new nose configuration with an infrared search and tracking system and a "new Diverterless Supersonic Intake configured engine air intake," also seen on the Chengdu FC-1 Xiaolong (Fierce Dragon), which is co-produced in Pakistan as the JF-17 Thunder, said Richard Fisher, a senior fellow of Asian military affairs at the International Assessment and Strategy Center.

 

At least one prototype J-10B has featured the indigenous Shenyang-Liming WS-10A turbofan engine, but it remains to be seen whether all production J-10Bs will feature the WS-10A or the Russian Saturn AL-31F turbofan," Fisher said.

 

 

"I think the JF-17 arrangement has been a workable one so far, and future weapon systems with core Russian and Chinese components can be acquired by the Pakistan Air Force on a similar basis, without difficulty," Tufail said.

 

Russia allowed China to supply Pakistan the JF-17s Klimov RD-93 engine despite Indian opposition, and prospects have since improved.

 

"The thawing of Pak-Russo relations over the past few years is certainly a welcome development, and should help override Indian objections to any military cooperation between Pakistan and Russia," Tufail said.

 

Technological advances may also scrap the J-10 deal.

 

Tufail believes the air force may be turning to the stealthy Chengdu J-20 though this is not presently "anything beyond a mere statement of intent."

 

"It is a futuristic aircraft, not yet fully operational, and its capabilities are hardly known, so reading too much into this may be rather premature," Tufail said.

 

The J-10B would offer Pakistan some advanced fourth generation capabilities.

 

"The canted nose cone immediately led to speculation that the J-10B also featured a new fixed antennae phased array radar and this was confirmed in 2011," Fisher said. "There remains some speculation that this radar may be a 'passive' versus an 'active' electronically scanned array [AESA], but the key point is that the J-10B is clearly a 4+ generation fighter that also included upgraded cockpit systems and electronic warfare systems."

 

But if Pakistan chooses not to become the first customer for an export configured J-10B, at $50-60 million per aircraft it will become attractive to countries like Venezuela, Argentina, Peru, Malaysia and Indonesia, who are looking for an affordable multi-role fighter, Fisher said.

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8 avril 2014 2 08 /04 /avril /2014 16:40
Un groupe naval russe met le cap sur le Pakistan

 

VLADIVOSTOK, 8 avril - RIA Novosti

 

Un groupe de navires de la flotte russe du Pacifique a mis lundi le cap sur le Pakistan après des exercices internationaux tenus dans le détroit de Singapour, a annoncé mardi à Vladivostok le porte-parole de la flotte, Roman Martov.

 

"Un groupe de navires de la flotte du Pacifique sous le commandement du contre-amiral Vladimir Dmitriev a franchi le détroit de Malacca avant de mettre le cap sur l'océan Indien" où les navires russes feront une escale au port pakistanais de Karachi, a indiqué M.Martov.

 

Le groupe naval russe comprend le destroyer Marchal Chapochnikov, le pétrolier Irkout et le remorqueur Alataou. Les trois navires ont participé aux exercices internationaux Komodo pour la lutte contre les catastrophes naturelles du 29 mars au 3 avril.

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8 avril 2014 2 08 /04 /avril /2014 11:35
Intelligence: Pakistan Tries A DNI

 

 

April 8, 2014: Strategy Page

 

Pakistan recently decided to form the NID (National Intelligence Directorate) in order to pool intelligence gathered by over 30 Pakistani agencies. Even many Pakistani intelligence officials are not sure how many government and military intelligence collecting organizations there are in Pakistan. An effort is under way to compile a definitive list. The NID was created because of the growing number of instances in which counter-terrorism efforts failed because vital information existed but was not known or available to the army or police. Not unusual, but there have been a growing number of cases in which vital information was available within the intelligence community but there was no easy way to connect the agency with the information with the army or police units tasked with actually doing something about the problem. The NID is supposed to solve the problem but many inside Pakistan and in intelligence agencies worldwide doubt it.

 

Much of this doubt comes from a failed American effort to do what NID is attempting. Back in 2004 the United States decided, for the same reasons, to create a similar agency called the DNI (Director of National Intelligence). The DNI was to control all intelligence. This promptly ran into resistance from the CIA which had, for a long time, filled the role as the "Central" Intelligence Agency. The DNI got things rolling quickly by proposing that the chief intelligence officer (the CIA "station chief") at each U.S. embassy be someone other than a CIA officer. The main alternatives proposed were someone from the DIA (the Department of Defense intelligence agency) or the NSA. The problem, as the CIA saw it was that if the intelligence station chief is from NSA or DIA, the senior CIA guy there would have another layer of bureaucracy to go through, and this would slow things down. Although the DNI, technically, has the power to order this change, the CIA unofficially threatened to use its considerable influence (in Congress, the media and elsewhere) to oppose the move.

 

This proposal actually makes some sense. For example, there are a lot of talented espionage operatives in NSA and DIA who would make good station chiefs. Moreover, in many small countries, the DIA has more agents and intelligence operations than the CIA. Same deal with the NSA whose electronic eavesdropping is often the primary source of intel on some nations. But the CIA countered by pointing out that the CIA has been handling the station chief duties competently for decades, so why change something it is working well.

 

All of these turf wars are the result of the huge growth in intelligence activities since the end of World War II over sixty years ago. As some of these new agencies, especially DIA and NSA, grew quite large, it became a problem getting everyone to play from the same sheet of music. Each intelligence agency has its own little fan club in Congress, and elsewhere in the federal government and among major defense contractors, and knows how to play the media game to get what they want. This is very similar to the situation in Pakistan.

 

With fifteen different intelligence organizations, the problem of coordinating all of them is nothing new. The CIA was created in the 1947 to coordinate intelligence activities for the president. Unfortunately, each of the fifteen organizations has a different boss, a different mission, different traditions and, well, you get the picture. Just to drive the point home, here are the fifteen intelligence agencies, along with short description of what they do, and who they do it for.

 

Everyone talks about getting the intelligence agencies to work together, but in over half a century, no one has been able to make it happen. In fact, no one, at the moment, is making a serious effort to make it happen. It's also illuminating to remember what one real Russian czar said about the subject, "I do not rule Russia, 10,000 clerks do."

 

Speaking of Russia, other nations have had similar problems with competing intel agencies. For decades after World War II, the Soviet Union had two different organizations running spies overseas. Most of the effort was from the KGB (a sort of combined CIA/FBI/Border Patrol/Coast Guard/Etc.) and a much smaller GRU (military intelligence). GRU was thought to be more dangerous, perhaps because they were a smaller operation and hustled a bit more as a result. Having two Soviet spy agencies to worry about did make counterintelligence more difficult.

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L'Iran et le Pakistan organisent un exercice naval conjoint

 

06-04-2014 French.china.org.cn

 

Une flotte de navires de guerre pakistanais actuellement à quai dans le sud de l'Iran va participer à un exercice conjoint avec la marine iranienne dans le détroit d'Ormuz, a indiqué samedi un haut commandant iranien.

 

La flotte est arrivée samedi dans le port méridional de Bandar Abbas où elle va rester pendant quatre jours, a indiqué le commandant en second iranien pour les opérations de la marine, le Contre-amiral Shahram Irani.

 

"La partie la plus importante du programme de la flotte pakistanaise pendant sa présence à Bandar Abbas sera de participer le 8 avril à des manoeuvres conjointes avec des unités choisies (...) de la marine iranienne, qui auront lieu à l'est du détroit d'Ormuz," a précisé Irani.

 

La flotte pakistanaise est porteuse d'un message de paix et d'amitié et aidera à renforcer la coopération militaire entre Téhéran et Islamabad, a-t-il expliqué. La flotte comprend un navire lance-missiles, un navire logistique et un sous-marin moderne.

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Source: Pakistan Already Has US-Made MRAPs, New Deal in Works

Mine resistant ambush protected vehicles are loaded onto the USNS Pililaau in 2007 at the seaport of Charleston, S.C. (US Army)

 

Apr. 2, 2014 - By PAUL McLEARY  - Defense News

 

WASHINGTON — While controversy swirls over reports that Pakistan may receive some of the excess Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles that the United States has sitting in Afghanistan, American and Pakistani officials are on the verge of completing a deal to send new and excess MRAPs to Islamabad, Defense News has learned.

The 160 vehicles, all of which would be the MaxxPro MRAP variant made by US manufacturer Navistar, would be a mix of new builds and some from US Army prepositioned stocks in Kuwait, according to a person familiar with the negotiations who is not authorized to speak for attribution.

While no formal notification of the deal has yet been sent to Congress since the last stages of the vetting process are still being completed, the official expected a notification to head to Capitol Hill by the end of this month.

The spat over the potential MRAP sale began in March when the Washington Post reported that the United States was considering giving Pakistan some MRAPs that the US didn’t want to pay to ship home once the mission in Afghanistan draws to a close. The report came at the same time as Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of the coalition and US Forces in Afghanistan, said there are more than 1,200 excess MRAPs in country.

For a while, US forces were literally shredding to bits the hulking MRAP infantry carriers that it doesn’t want to pay to bring home, but Dunford has since put a halt to that program while final decisions on the ultimate fate of the fleet are being made.

The holdup on the deal for the 160 MRAPs centers around a congressionally mandated human rights vetting process that all US foreign training and equipping programs must undergo.

Known as the “Leahey Amendment” after the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Patrick Leahey of Vermont, the law stipulates that US forces cannot train or equip foreign military or police units that have been accused of human rights abuses.

The 160 MRAPs would be split among the branches of the Pakistani armed forces. Although specific army and air force units have been identified and vetted, the Pakistani Navy has yet to submit all of the required information, according to the official.

While it hasn’t been reported previously, the Pakistani armed forces have already been supplied with 22 MRAPs — 20 MaxxPro’s along with two “haulers” to move them if damaged — under a now-canceled State Department program known as the Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund. The vehicles were drawn out of the US Army’s existing stock in Kuwait.

The fund was axed in the US government’s fiscal 2014 budget.

The State Department and the US Embassy in Islamabad have been tying themselves in rhetorical knots over the past week trying to explain the situation over the potential MRAP transfer, all without giving specifics or mentioning the MRAPs already sent to Pakistan or the deal currently in the works.

On March 31, the Islamabad embassy issued a statement confirming that Pakistan has requested “a variety of Excess Defense Articles (EDA). The U.S. is currently reviewing Pakistan’s request.” In what appears to be a nod to the pending deal, the embassy added that “if approved, this EDA is likely to be sourced from U.S. stock outside Afghanistan.”

The State Department weighs EDA requests on a “case-by-case basis taking into consideration a range of factors including the need of potential recipients, regional security dynamics, how the recipient nations intend to use the equipment and the ability of an EDA recipient to sustain the equipment,” the embassy said. ■

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Pakistan, Afghanistan, India Want Leftover US MRAPs

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles are unloaded in 2009 from the MV Marilyn Vessel in the port of Antwerp, Belgium. (Pierre-Etienne Courtejoie/Army)

 

Apr. 1, 2014 - By JEFF SCHOGOL – Defense News


 

The US military has more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles in Afghanistan that it can bring home — and Afghanistan, India and Pakistan are locked in a three-way competition for them, a former senior defense official said.

“Those people in US government who want to support the Pakistani counterinsurgency say we should give [MRAPs] to them; the people who are concerned about the future of Afghanistan, the people who are principally concerned about India say we shouldn’t give [MRAPs] to them,” said David Sedney. “What we’re actually going to do is not clear.”

MRAPs initially were fielded in Iraq to protect troops from roadside bombs after insurgents discovered that the undersides of up-armored Humvees were vulnerable to buried explosives.

Then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates made building the MRAPs and getting the vehicles downrange a top priority, even though he understood the vehicles were designed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan, not necessarily in future conflicts, said Sedney, who served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia from 2009 to 2013.

Now the US military has thousands of MRAPs in Afghanistan that neither the Army nor Marine Corps want, Sedney said. Since the US government has considered MRAPs too sophisticated for the Afghan military to use, it has been shipping some vehicles back to the US while destroying others that have battle damage, Sedney told Military Times on Tuesday.

But some members of Congress have objected to destroying the costly vehicles, he said. Meanwhile, the companies that build MRAPs — and the lawmakers that represent states where the vehicles are built — want to encourage other countries to use MRAPs because building spare parts for the vehicles is a “lucrative business.”

Pakistan has said it wants a lot of MRAPs and some US government officials think the vehicles could help the Paksitanis fight their own insurgents, Sedney said.

“As soon as the Indians even got hint of this, they became upset because they said, ‘Hey look, these MRAPs, they’re of limited utility in the worst areas of Pakistan but they could be really useful in an offensive action [by Pakistan] against India,’” Sedney said. “The Indian government started lobbying against MRAPs to Pakistan.”

Afghan officials also were concerned that the Pakistanis could use MRAPs against them, and Afghan military leaders felt many of their troops who were killed by roadside bombs in 2013 could have survived if they had been in MRAPs, he said.

“The Afghans realized that and they said, ‘Wait a second ... you’re saying that we have to absorb much higher casualties than you ever were willing to? Why don’t you give us the MRAPS?’ But of course, they didn’t have the money.”

Last week, US Forces Afghanistan issued a statement that it has no plans to provide Pakistan with excess MRAPs used in Afghanistan. The US Embassy in Pakistan then issued a statement on Monday saying the US government is considering Pakistan’s request for excess military equipment.

That prompted the State Department to release a statement on Monday clarifying that while the US government is considering giving military equipment to Pakistan, none of it would come directly from Afghanistan.

“To be clear, the United States has not refused Pakistan’s request regarding EDA [excess defense articles] sourced from the worldwide pool (to include any request that might involve MRAPs),” according to the statement. “The United States continues to assist Pakistan through many security cooperation programs to build partnership capacity, including through the provision of worldwide available EDA.

“US military equipment leaving overland from Afghanistan through Pakistan or via the Northern Distribution Network is part of the overall process of removing equipment as our forces draw down in Afghanistan. We have not and do not intend to transfer this equipment to the governments neighboring Afghanistan.”

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Pakistani Air Force Wary of Terrorist Threat to Airbases

 

Apr. 1, 2014 - By USMAN ANSARI – Defense News

 

ISLAMABAD — Media reports that Pakistani Taliban splinter group Ahrarul Hind is planning attacks on Pakistani airbases in retaliation for punishing airstrikes carried out in February have raised questions about the adequacy of security at Air Force facilities.

 

There has not been a discernible reaction from the Ahrarul Hind thus far, and analysts say the ferocity of the airstrikes that killed a number of important members has left it somewhat stunned. Commentators and public opinion had demanded action against terrorists for some time, however, and the military, long the focus of terrorist attacks, has been itching to deliver it.

 

But the threat of attacks on Air Force facilities is real.

 

There have been a number of devastating attacks on airbases in recent years; one the highest profile attacks was on PNS Mehran in Karachi in 2011, resulting in a number of deaths and the loss of two P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft. A 2012 attack on PAF Base Minhas at Kamra destroyed one Erieye airborne early warning and control aircraft and damaged another.

 

Civil and military-related infrastructure continues to remain a target. A weekend attack by terrorists on the civil Pasni radar post in Balochistan left one dead and equipment damaged. The attackers escaped.

 

However, since the last major attack in 2012, perimeter security has been tightened at military airbases. Commercial satellite imagery has shown other improvements inside the bases, and an undetermined (though probably small, according to analysts) number of Eland 60 armored cars have been procured from South Africa for airfield defense.

 

The service is prepared to defend its assets, said Air Force spokesman Air Commodore Tariq Mahmood.

 

“All security measures at our installations, our airbases and other facilities are in place, and it’s a layered defense. We are guarding them according to our [standard operating procedures]. The threat is always there, we can’t be oblivious to the situation in the country, but we’re protecting our installations and taking all measures,” he said.

 

Mahmood was not able to comment on the purchase of Eland 60s, however.

 

Analysts are also reasonably confident the Air Force’s security should be able to handle any threat.

 

“Current security is good,” said Brian Cloughley, former Australian defense attache to Islamabad. “All that is needed is coordination and no relaxation of present measures.”

 

Protection is difficult at some airbases because many have been surrounded by urban sprawl, but Cloughley said the most obvious solution, relocation, is probably out of the question.

 

There is, however, still room for improvement in airbase security.

 

Analyst and former Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail says the Air Force could learn from examples of civil airbase security.

 

“A short answer is to defend them the way [the Airport Security Force] has done,” he said.

 

“None of the 20-odd [Civil Aviation Authority] airports have been intruded in for the last three decades. The ASF and CAA have quite simply treated perimeter security with the utmost importance, and the PAF could learn a thing or two from them,” he added.

 

 

Additional equipment is needed, Tufail says, and there is a long list of items to be improved or acquired to bring security at Air Force airbases up to the level of the civil airports.

 

“Armored cars for patrols, manned watch towers, motion sensors, spotlights, fencing topped with razor wire, and of course, trained guards — these are some of the essential measures that ought to be in place at PAF bases,” he said.

 

“The civil airports have had these measures in place for decades. Unfortunately, these were lacking at PAF bases in the past, and have been implemented only recently. It was simply a case of oversight of a very important issue, and a heavy price was paid for the neglect,” he added.

 

Cloughley highlights a more military-specific issue.

 

“They could ask for surveillance balloons,” he said. There are “plenty of them left over by US and British forces in Afghanistan. But I imagine they’re too high-tech to be given to Pakistan. They are undoubtedly the best means of detecting approaches by enemy.”

 

However, such systems are complicated.

 

“Balloons are not a total solution, of course. They work in conjunction with ground radars and other electronic detection devices, and, of course, physical patrolling. It can be done most effectively, given good organization, but there’s a great deal of expense in hardware and manpower,” he said.

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Dunford: US Will Not Give Pakistan MRAPs From Afghanistan

 

Mar. 28, 2014 - By JEFF SCHOGOL  - Defense News

 

The US military is disputing media reports that it plans to give Pakistan excess American military equipment that is currently in Afghanistan.

 

“Our commitment to the Afghan people and the Afghan National Security Forces is unwavering,” Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of all US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, said in a statement Thursday.

 

The Washington Post first reported in a March 16 web story that the US military was considering giving the Pakistanis $7 billion worth of equipment amid the drawdown in Afghanistan. The Pakistani military has expressed interest in getting Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, which have been proven to be too big and heavy to operate effectively in Afghanistan, which lacks road infrastructure.

 

The story came shortly after Dunford had testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the US military was considering whether to repair damaged MRAPs in Afghanistan in order to give them to someone else.

 

“We're in the process right now of seeing if there are any of our allies that can use those vehicles,” Dunford said at the March 12 hearing. “The services are also going back to review those requirements. I've put a stop on any destruction of any vehicles except those that are battle-damaged.”

 

But US Forces-Afghanistan issued a statement on Thursday calling media reports that it was considering sending military equipment to Pakistan “inaccurate.”

 

“USFOR-A does not provide or intend to provide any such equipment, including MRAPs, from Afghanistan to Pakistan,” the statement says.

 

When asked about the statement by Military Times, a spokeswoman for the Washington Post said the newspaper stands by its story.

 

“We reported accurately on March 17 that discussions about a possible equipment transfer to Pakistan had been going on for months and that no final decisions had been made,” the spokeswoman said in an email. “We have taken note of the March 27 statement from US Forces Afghanistan.”

 

The story caused more strain on the US military’s relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whose spokesman said Afghanistan would oppose any move to give excess MRAPs to Pakistan.

 

“Afghan security forces need this type of equipment and as a strategic partner, the US needs to consult with Afghanistan before making such a decision,” Emal Faizi told Voice of America for a March 18 story.

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Afghanistan: the view from Pakistan

 

Alerts - No12 - 21 February 2014 Eva Gross

 

Pakistan will arguably be the most crucial regional player in post-2014 Afghanistan. Close religious and cultural links notwithstanding, its links to the Taliban give Islamabad considerable leverage and influence over any peace process. However, the protection and support granted to insurgent groups ­operating in Afghanistan over the past decade has had unintended domestic consequences for Pakistan, with the growing number of terrorist attacks now posing a ­significant threat to the country’s internal stability. Failure to reach a political settlement in Kabul is therefore likely to have a spill-over effect that would further weaken Islamabad’s ability to contain extremist groups operating inside Pakistan.

Despite the complexity of US-Pakistan relations, a complete US withdrawal by the end of 2014 – with the concomitant risk of a security vacuum developing along Pakistan’s border – is not in Islamabad’s interest. However, the implications of even a reduced transatlantic footprint are bound to contribute to a reckoning with extremism, and the forces that encourage it, inside Pakistan itself.

 

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Importations d'armements de l'Inde et du Pakistan en forte hausse

 

17.03.2014 Romandie.com (ats)

 

Le marché mondial de l'armement est en nette expansion. Il a progressé de 14% ces cinq dernières années. L'Inde, le Pakistan et l'Arabie saoudite ont notamment fortement accru leurs importations d'armements durant cette période, selon l'Institut international de recherche sur la paix de Stockholm (SIPRI).

 

Les importations indiennes ont progressé de 111% entre les années 2004-2008 et la période 2009-2013, passant de 7% à 14% du total des importations mondiales, indique le rapport du SIPRI. Les importations pakistanaises de systèmes d'armes majeurs ont progressé dans le même temps de 119%, de 2% à 5% du marché mondial.

 

La Chine (5% des importations), les Emirats arabes unis (4%) et l'Arabie saoudite (4%), complètent le top 5 des pays importateurs. Avec 14% du marché mondial, le volume d'importation de l'Inde est ainsi près de trois fois plus élevé que celui du Pakistan et de la Chine, qui la suivent au classement des pays importateurs.

 

Etats-Unis et Russie

 

Durant la période 2009-2013, les Etats-Unis, avec 29% du marché mondial, les Etats-Unis et la Russie (27%) ont été les principaux pays exportateurs d'armements, loin devant l'Allemagne (7%), la Chine (6%), la France (5%) et le Royaume-uni (4%). Pékin s'impose désormais comme un pays exportateur du même rang que Paris et Berlin.

 

Selon l'institut, les flux d'armements ont fortement augmenté entre 2008 et 2013 en direction de l'Afrique, l'Amérique, l'Asie et l'Océanie, alors qu'ils diminuaient vers l'Europe.

 

Les importations d'armement des pays arabes du golfe Persique ont augmenté de 23% entre les années 2004-2008 et la période suivante, pour totaliser 52% des importations de l'ensemble des pays du Moyen-Orient. 18e pays importateur dans les années 2004-2008, l'Arabie saoudite s'est hissée au 5e rang mondial dans les cinq années suivantes.

 

Importantes commandes d'avions

 

Selon le SIPRI, plusieurs pays du Golfe ont investi lourdement dans les systèmes de défense aérienne et les missiles. Avec en particulier "d'importantes commandes d'avions de combat" au Royaume-Uni et aux Etats-Unis.

 

Autre évolution notable sur le marché, le Brésil a augmenté ses importations dans la période 2009-2013, avec l'acquisition de quatre sous-marins à la France, de véhicules blindés à l'Italie et de 36 avions de combat à la Suède.

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Pakistan - C-130 Fleet Upgrade Program

 

 

Mar 11, 2014 ASDNews Source : Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA)

 

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress today of a possible Foreign Military Sale to Pakistan for a C-130 Fleet Upgrade Program and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $100 million.

 

The Government of Pakistan has requested a possible sale of C-130B/E avionics upgrades, engine management and mechanical upgrades, cargo delivery system installation, and replacement of outer wing sets on six aircraft.  Also included are spare and repair parts, support equipment, publications and technical documentation, personnel training and training equipment, U.S. Government and contractor technical and logistics support services, and other related elements of logistics support.  The estimated cost is $100 million.

 

This proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a Major Non-NATO ally which has been, and continues to be, an important force for regional stability and U.S. national security goals in the region.

 

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US halts shipments from Afghanistan through Pakistan

 

 

Dec. 3, 2013 – Defense News (AFP)

 

WASHINGTON — The US military on Tuesday suspended shipments of equipment out of Afghanistan through Pakistan, citing protests that posed a threat to the safety of truck drivers, officials said.

 

The move came after club-wielding activists in northwestern Pakistan forcibly searched trucks for NATO supplies in protest over US drone strikes in the country’s tribal belt.

 

“We have voluntarily halted US shipments of retrograde cargo through the Pakistan Ground Line of Communication (GLOCC) from Torkham Gate through Karachi,” Pentagon spokesman Mark Wright said in a statement.

 

He was referring to the main overland route used by the Americans and NATO to withdraw military hardware from Afghanistan, as part of a troop pullout set to wrap up by the end of 2014.

 

Trucks have been told to wait in holding areas in Afghanistan, officials said.

 

“We anticipate that we will be able to resume our shipments through this route in the near future,” Wright said.

 

A defense official said Washington believed the Islamabad government fully supported the use of the route and that it would soon restore security to the area.

 

“The companies that we contract with were getting nervous. And it’s getting a little too dangerous for the truck drivers,” the defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Agence France-Press.

 

The United States has alternate routes available to the north through Central Asia, although those options take longer and are more expensive.

 

About half of the US cargo is being taken out through the Pakistan route via the Torkham crossing, with the remainder being removed by aircraft or a combination of planes and ships.

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Pakistan's Burraq and Shahpar UAVs Enter Service

 

26/11/2013 by Paul Fiddian - Armed Forces International's Lead Reporter

 

Pakistan is now equipped with two new unmanned aerial vehicle designs - a "very effective force multiplier", according to military officials.

 

Developed in Pakistan, the Burraq and Shahpar are both surveillance UAVs and, said General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, they'll give the Pakistan Army and Air Force a new level of "target acquisition capabilities", delivered "in real-time."

 

Both new Pakistan UAVs were inducted during a ceremony, attended by officials, engineers and scientists. Each was conceived and produced after the US refused to export its own advanced UAVs, such as the Predator.

 

Burraq UAV

 

First flown in 2009, the Burraq UAV was co-developed by the Pakistan Air Force and the National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM). It takes its name from Al-Buraq, the winged horse from heaven on which Islamic prophets travelled.

 

Strictly speaking, the Burraq is a UCAV (Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle), since - according to reports - it can be armed with laser-guided air-to-surface missiles, according to specific mission requirements. Military analysts have likened the Burraq to the Rainbow CH-3 UCAV, made in China, although very little is known about it beyond that comparison.

 

Shahpar UAV

 

The Shahpar UAV is the brainchild of Pakistan's Global Industrial Defence Solutions. Powered by a single Rotax 912 engine, producing 100 horsepower, it cruises at 93 miles per hour at altitudes of around 17,000 feet. To date, ten examples have been built, each one capable of autonomous launches and recoveries, either end of unmanned operations lasting more than seven hours at a time, during which data can be transmitted across a 250 kilometre range.

 

"It is a landmark and historic event, wherein a very effective force multiplier has been added to the inventory of the armed forces", said the Pakistan military's press office, ISPR (Inter-Services Public Relations) in a statement on the UAVs' inauguration.

 

Beyond military operations, the Burraq and Shahpar "...could also be gainfully employed in various socio-economic development projects", ISPR added.

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Pakistan : le général Raheel Sharif nommé nouveau chef de l'armée

 

 

27 novembre 2013 Romandie.com (AFP)

 

Islamabad - Le général Raheel Sharif a été nommé mercredi nouveau chef de l'armée pakistanaise, institution la plus puissante de ce pays en théorie allié des Etats-Unis dans la guerre contre le terrorisme, ont indiqué des sources militaires.

 

Il succèdera ainsi au général Ashfaq Kayani qui doit prendre sa retraite cette semaine après avoir dirigé pendant six ans cette armée de plus de 600.000 hommes, ont précisé ces sources sous couvert de l'anonymat.

 

Raheel Sharif est le nouveau chef de l'armée, a confirmé à l'AFP un haut responsable militaire, avant l'annonce officielle de sa nomination par la télévision d'Etat.

 

Au Pakistan, seul pays musulman doté de l'armé nucléaire, le chef de l'armée est choisi par le Premier ministre parmi une liste de trois candidats fournie par la hiérarchie militaire.

 

Le général Raheel Sharif, qui était responsable de l'entraînement et de l'évaluation du personnel au QG de l'armée, était considéré par les analystes comme l'un des favoris à la succession d'Ashfaq Kayani.

 

Il héritera toutefois d'une armée confrontée à des défis internes, allant de la montée en puissance des talibans pakistanais à son crédit entamé par le raid de la CIA contre Oussama Ben Laden à Abbottabad, où est établi la principale académie militaire du Pakistan.

 

A quoi s'ajoutent des défis externes comme les relations avec les Etats-Unis, premier bailleur étranger d'Islamabad, et l'Inde rivale, et le rôle du Pakistan dans le futur de l'Afghanistan voisin après le retrait des forces de l'Otan l'an prochain.

 

Malgré des relations houleuses entre le Pakistan et les Etats-Unis, l'armée pakistanaise reçoit toujours une précieuse aide financière de son allié américain. Au cours de la dernière décennie, Washington a ainsi fourni plus de 23 milliards de dollars en aide au Pakistan, principalement militaire, selon les données du Congrès américain.

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