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Kashmir Watch
October 7, 2017
In this context, the then Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan, Director General (DG) Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) initially confirmed 18000 dead and over 41000 injured. With villages perched precariously on sides of the mountains, and the timing (about 9 am) during Ramazan, one feared that this would beÃâà...
DAWN.com
June 18, 2017
The then ISPR Director-General, Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan, had informed the media persons that the government had earmarked 1,400 acres in Islamabad for construction of the defence ministry and office of the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee. He said due to paucity of financial resources, theÃâà...
New York Times
April 6, 2013
As the negotiations were taking place, the C.I.A.'s inspector general, John L. Helgerson, had just finished a searing report about the abuse of .... Gen. Shaukat Sultan, Pakistan's top military spokesman, told reporters at the time that “Al Qaeda facilitator” Nek Muhammad and four other “militants” had beenÃâà...
Atlantic Online
September 6, 2007
Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan, Musharraf's press secretary until March 2007, spent six months in infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1983. He explained to me how the American training shaped the mentality of thousands of young officers of his generation. “It helps you to establish a better relationship andÃâà...
Pakistan Dawn
January 27, 2007
ISLAMABAD, Jan 27: Inter-Services Public Relations director-general Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan has been posted out from his present high-profile position and transferred to a professionally important command post as the GOC Lahore. He will be replaced by GOC Bhawalpur Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad, whoÃâà...
Chandigarh Tribune
September 1, 2006
He was reacting to a statement issued by Major-Gen Shaukat Sultan, Director-General, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), who said Nawab Bugti had not been killed by the Pakistan Army, but in an accident. Major-General Sultan claimed that the terrain was very rugged and almost inaccessible.
New York Times
March 6, 2006
Suggestions from members of the government that elections could be postponed until 2008, which would allow General Musharraf to be confirmed for a second term by the currently pliable Parliament, have also stirred up the opposition, Mr. Talat said. Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, who acts as a spokesman forÃâà...
New York Times
October 10, 2005
Gen. Shaukat Sultan, Pakistan's chief army spokesman, who announced the toll on Sunday, said at least 45,000 people had been injured, a vast ... the day on Saturday, Dr. Qamar-uz-Zaman Chaudhry, director general of the Meteorological Department in Islamabad, said by telephone on Saturday evening.
CNN
October 8, 2005
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- The Pakistan earthquake toll has reached 18,000 dead and more than 41,000 injured, Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a spokesman for Pakistani ... This disaster is by far the biggest in its magnitude and scale so far that we have witnessed in Pakistan's history," the general said.
BBC News
April 22, 2005
A Pakistani general says US claims that Pakistan is planning a new offensive against militants in its Waziristan region are "highly irresponsible". ... His comments came a day after Pakistani army spokesman Maj Shaukat Sultan also criticised the statement by Gen Barno, saying: "We decide for ourselvesÃâà...
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