COUNTRY REVIEW

South Asia

Afghanistan

• More than 100 killed Afghanistan; Mullen: Troops build up to stem violence in Afghanistan; Gilani fears enhancement of Taliban infiltration into Pakistan; Robert Gates urges international community to provide more aid for Afghanistan

Pakistan

• Suicide bomb attacks in Lahore and Peshawar; ‘Peace Pipeline’ declaration signed between Pakistan and Iran; UN invokes donors to help refugees in Pakistan; SC clears charges against Sharif brothers

Sri Lanka

• Conditions of the IDP’s ‘good and impressive’, says US Congress delegates; New US Ambassador to Sri Lanka named; Sri Lanka Army Chief says LTTE is over

West Asia

Iran

• Iran and Pakistan signed Gas Pipeline deal; Larijani re-elected Majlis Speaker; No Any Compromise with the West: Ahmadinejad

Iraq

• Bomb attack killed three Americans in Faluja; Obama does not want to release images of apparent rape and sexual abuse in Iraq: Telegraph

East and SouthEast Asia

China

• Senior PLA officer’s view on DPRK’s second Nuclear Blast

Indonesia

• Indonesia wants to play a constructive role in the Korean Peninsula

Singapore

• Singapore appeal for greater transparency in military affairs in the Asia-Pacific

Japan

• Aso blasts North Korea's nuclear test as 'grave challenge' to NPT regime; Japan and the US outline draft UNSC resolution on the nuclear test; Japan to impose outright exports ban on North Korea

Korea

• North Korea fires new type of missile off east coast; North Korea urged not to use PSI to justify threats

INTERNAL SECURITY REVIEW

Jammu and Kashmir

• Omar favours amendment to AFSPA; India slams OIC Kashmir comments

Maoist Insurgency

• CPI-Maoists procuring weapons from Northeast-based militant groups

Other Development

• States alerted on regrouping of SIMI

MISSILES, SPACE, DEFENCE AND NUCLEAR REVIEW

National

• AWACS: India Receives Eye in the Sky

• India to Hold Naval Exercises with France, Germany, Russia and United Kingdom to Hold Naval in Atlantic

International

• Proposal submitted by the BAE to supply Medium Tactical Vehicle Competition to U.S. Army

• BAE Systems and L-3 of Canada bagged $120 million Maintenance Award of Aussie F/A-18s

• France Opens Miliatry Base in UAE

• Thailand Buying JAS-39 Gripens, AWACS

• German Army Receives Advnaced Mobile Ground Surveillance Radar - Bodenüberwachungsradar