Raheel Sharif
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Pakistan can't recall Gen Raheel Sharif from Riyadh: Sartaj Aziz
World | Jun 21, 2017, 07:02 PM ISTGen Sharif, who remained the Army chief for three years until he retired in November, left for Riyadh in April.
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Gen. Raheel Sharif leaves for Saudi to lead Islamic military alliance
World | Apr 21, 2017, 06:55 PM ISTThe 41-nation armed coalition was initially proposed as a platform for security cooperation among Muslim countries and included provisions for training, equipment and troops, and the involvement of religious scholars for devising a counter- terrorism
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Pakistan govt agrees to allow Gen Raheel Sharif head Saudi-led military alliance: Report
World | Mar 25, 2017, 06:04 PM ISTPakistan government has agreed to allow former army chief Gen Raheel Sharif to head a Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation Islamic military coalition formed to combat terrorism.
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Storm brews in Pakistan over allotment of 90 acres of land to former Army chief Raheel Sharif
World | Jan 25, 2017, 05:15 PM ISTA controversy has erupted in Pakistan over allotment of 90 acres of prime land to former Pakistan Army chief General (retired) Raheel Sharif.
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Peace will return only after resolution of Kashmir issue: Gen Raheel Sharif
World | Jan 19, 2017, 07:05 PM ISTFormer Pakistani Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday said normalcy will return to the region only after the long-standing Kashmir dispute is resolved.
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Gen Raheel Sharif didn't seek govt’s approval to join Saudi alliance, says Pak Defence Minister
World | Jan 11, 2017, 07:05 PM ISTPakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif today said that former Army chief General Raheel Sharif did not seek the Nawaz Sharif government’s permission to join the 39-country Saudi-led military alliance against terrorism.
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Raheel Sharif's appointment as head of Saudi-led Islamic military coalition sparks controversy
World | Jan 11, 2017, 11:16 AM ISTPakistan's ex-army chief General Raheel Sharif appointed as the head of the Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation Islamic military alliance to combat terrorism has sparked a debate in his own country.
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Former Pak Army chief Raheel Sharif appointed head of Saudi-led Islamic military coalition
World | Jan 07, 2017, 06:40 AM ISTRetired Pakistan Army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif has been appointed as the head of Saudi Arabia-led 39-nation Islamic military coalition formed to combat terrorism.
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Pak’s former army chief Raheel Sharif named chief of Islamic military alliance
World | Jan 06, 2017, 11:42 PM ISTPakistan’s former army chief General Raheel Sharif (retd) was today appointed the chief of the 39-nation Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism. Speaking during a talk show on Geo TV, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif admitted
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Pakistan’s former army chief Raheel Sharif may be appointed defence advisor of Saudi Arabia-led military alliance
World | Dec 29, 2016, 11:48 PM ISTPakistan’s former army chief General (retd) Raheel Sharif is expected to be appointed defence advisor of a Saudi Arabia-led military alliance of 39 countries, according to a media report. Sharif, who arrived in Saudi Arabia
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Gen. Raheel Sharif helped me out in leaving Pakistan: Pervez Musharraf
World | Dec 20, 2016, 12:52 PM ISTFormer Pakistani president Pervez Musharaff has claimed that ex-army chief General Raheel Sharif helped him leave the country in March this year.
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General Qamar Bajwa takes over as Pakistan's new Army Chief
World | Nov 29, 2016, 02:26 PM ISTGeneral Qamar Javed Bajwa today took over as Pakistan's new Army Chief, succeeding Gen Raheel Sharif at a ceremony held in Rawalpindi.
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Don’t mistake patience as weakness: Gen. Raheel Sharif to India
World | Nov 29, 2016, 02:07 PM ISTPakistan's outgoing Army Chief General Raheel Sharif today handed over the command of the army to the incoming Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
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Rattled by Army’s offensive, Pakistan PM, military chiefs vow to teach India a 'lesson'
World | Nov 24, 2016, 07:12 PM ISTBoth the civilian and military leadership of Pakistan on Thursday warned that its armed forces were capable of teaching India "a lesson" if the border tension escalates.
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‘Positive decision’, Pakistan’s media react to Raheel Sharif’s farewell tweet
World | Nov 22, 2016, 04:51 PM ISTPakistan’s media went into a frenzy following a tweet by the military’s public relations wing stating that powerful Army Chief General Raheel Sharif had kicked off his farewell visits on Monday, thus ending months of speculation over the army chief s
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Pakistan Supreme Court approached to make General Raheel Sharif a field marshal
World | Nov 22, 2016, 01:04 PM ISTPakistan Supreme Court has been asked to order conferring the title of field marshal on Army Chief Gen Raheel Sharif for rendering services to protect national security and safeguarding the frontiers of Pakistan. The petition
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Pakistan army chief Raheel Sharif to retire on Nov 29, kicks off his farewell tour
World | Nov 21, 2016, 08:28 PM ISTGeneral Raheel Sharif on Monday began a farewell tour of various army outposts across the country before his retirement on November 29, ending months of speculation of an extension of his term.
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'Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif advised to appoint new Army chief within 48 hours’
World | Oct 26, 2016, 01:10 PM ISTA senior lawyer of Pakistan’s Supreme Court claimed on Tuesday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s close allies have advised him to appoint new Army chief within 48 hours in order to limit the role of security establishment.
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Govt to appoint new Army Chief soon: Top Pak minister
World | Oct 22, 2016, 11:00 AM ISTA senior Pakistani minister today said that the government ‘is preparing to appoint a new Army Chief within a week or 10 days to replace incumbent General Raheel Sharif who is poised to retire by end of November’.
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Report on rift with government a ‘breach of national security’, says Pakistan Army
World | Oct 15, 2016, 08:55 AM ISTWhile expressing ‘serious concern’ over a news leak about rift between civilian and military leaderships over how to tackle militancy, the Pakistani army described it as a ‘breach of national security’ and held Nawaz Sharif’s government responsible f