Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan, HI(M), afwc, psc, is a former Director General of the ISPR, the PR wing of the Pakistani Armed Forces. He served from 2003 to 2007.[1] (wikipedia)
Now we find out that the casualties might have exceeded 100.
The step has been taken to enhance security measures on the border before the Afghan elections,
to beef up security and curtail activities of miscreants.
It could be more prominent in the valley because it is very narrow and aftershocks trigger landslides in the mountains, which have already been cut by the earthquake, ... It kicks up dust due to which local people believe there could be some volcanic activity.
The blast was huge enough to kick up dust which the pilot probably misunderstood as rocket fire,
The border is porous. Militants keep on coming and going. That's our main problem.
There is no question of Indian army crossing LoC to help rebuild bunkers. All our bunkers are safe and built to withstand artillery shells.
In some of these villages no house is intact,
This is a disaster of enormous scale and we have to understand that,
Our investigation revealed that it was blasting on the roadside by engineers, under way exactly at that time when the helicopters was flying over the area,