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CAA Split into Divisions to Improve Management The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been split into three divisions as part of a plan to improve the organization’s service and management. This was revealed in a notification issued by CAA’s Director-General, Flight Lt (retd.) Khaqan Murtaza. It says the new organization of the aviation authority is being trifurcated into Regulatory, Airport & Operations, and Support Functions, with each division to be headed by an additional director-general (ADG). The development has come days after the Aviation Minister, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, had announc...

To be made here the second thing is the rhetoric associated with this. all the published statements i've read talk about hardening certain points on the border and then go on to talk about well, they're going to provide support functions for the border patrol and the i.c.e. folks. youtant have both and when you talk about hardening points on the border, you are talking about enforcing federal immigration laws. that again brings about comitasse. there was a report in 2012 discussing and evaluating for congress a number of your excursions with the act of the military on the guard in the border. ...

Three permanent members of the u.n. security council, it was important for all of us to stand together and say, this is a barbarity that even in warfare we cannot tolerate. >> jon: let's talk about the pentagon's budget. you have rolled out a plan that would cut $25 billion not from front-line troops but so-called pentagon support services. what are you proposing what are you hoping to achieve there? >> well, one of the ways that folks put it is we need to reduce the tail and put more emphasis on the tooth of the military. what that means is, over the past number of years the bureaucracy, the ...

Be if and when deployed? >> they will be doing operational support functions for us. watching monitors, border cameras, sensor feeds, those kinds of things. helping us in the back room activities. we've used them previously to help repair roads and vehicles. we've used them to do intelligence and analysis and aviation is a big part of what we hope they bring. >> sandra: is there any idea of the costs involved here? >> it's probably expensive. all military endeavors come with a cost but we add a lot of value to the border security mission. we'll improve conditions our agents work in the border ...

Of mexico. what can the national guard troops, what can they not do, and will they be armed? >> there are a lot of questions here and few answers. the pentagon said they would engage most likely in things like aviation, maintenance, surveillance, logistics support, support functions for the border control operations down there. but not likely to engage in law enforcement actually moving out and detaining people trying to cross the border themselves. these will be national guard activated by the governors. the big question, of course -- will they be armed? will the governors want them to be arm...