The DNA test result revealed that four terrorists who attacked PNS Mehran base in Karachi were foreigners, officials said on Saturday. The samples from the four terrorists do not match the DNA databank in Pakistan, police officials said.
According to police officials, the DNA samples of the four terrorists were sent to Islamabad for testing. The officials added that these samples did not match the DNA databank in Pakistan.
The report disclosed that two of them belong to same country while nationality of other two has not been confirmed so far. Those terrorists were Anglo-Indians and have blood relations, could be cousins, the report said.
Police said two samples were taken for DNA, one to know their nationality while other for identification of their families. These samples were matched with NADRA database which revealed that these terrorists were not Pakistani.
In order to identify the terrorists, their pictures were taken using the most advance cameras along with their fingerprints. These did not match with the data maintained by NADRA.
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On Saturday the Defense Minister Ch Ahmed Mukhtar told the National Assembly that the government was fully cognizant of the country’s soverignity and it would make all possible efforts to stop drone attacks.
In his winding up debate in the National Assembly on cut motions of opposition members about increase in defense budget, Mukhtar said, there was an increase of just 2.42 per cent in the defense budget as compared to last year and the opposition should not criticize the upward revision in the prevailing situation.
He said the Ministry of Defense was only an administrative body of all the three armed forces and the planning related to defense of the country was prepared by the forces and not by the ministry.
He said that as compared to a four-liner defense budget in the past this time more details had been published and with the passage of time the budget would also be presented before the Parliament. “We will go in more details and no objections will be raised by the opposition,” he added.
About the construction of GHQ in the Capital, the Defense Minister quoted the Chief of Army Staff as saying that there was no need to construct GHQ in Islamabad because of non-availabilty of funds.
The minister said that presently the national carrier (PIA) was suffering losses of Rs 90 billion out of which Rs 32 billion was due to rupee’s devaluation. He said the issue of 777 aircrafts had been raised with the United States at high level to allow PIA operations to US to earn extra money. He said as the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) was the oldest airline operating in the region and most of its aircrafts were now old as average life of an aircraft in aviation industry was 20 years. He said the government could save 20 per cent more by replacing the old aircrafts with new ones. He said after one or two years 747 boeing aircrafts would be made redundant. He said that the government was utilizing all its resources to make PIA a profitable institution and now there was a visible change in services, engineering and human resource departments of the national flag career. He said that a committee of the treasury and opposition members of parliament would be made soon to resolve the issue of PIA.
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RAWALPINDI - 17th June 2011
On Friday a spokesperson of ISPR voiced concern on unfounded and baseless insinuation’s being voiced in a section of print and electronic media against ISI in regard to murder of Journalist Saleem Shahzad. Such negative aspersions and accusations were also voiced against ISI in some previous cases but investigations proved those wrong.
The spokesperson strongly supported formation of a Commission to investigate the murder of Saleem Shahzad. The case must be investigated thoroughly and facts made known to the people, the spokesperson concluded.
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