Book Review: A Soldier’s ‘Lone Long Walk’

From the Self-Quarantined ‘Solitude’ A Soldier’s ‘Lone Long Walk’ [caption id="attachment_17934" align="alignright" width="275"] Soldier - Siachen Sector[/caption] By F Z Khan Outside my self-imposed solitude, the fear of coronavirus has gripped, around the globe, as the demon has started wreaking havoc across continents. Messages on social media and talk shows on TV have added dread and scare to further sp ...

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Memory of the Siachen Glacier Tragedy

By Sajjad Shaukat      On April 7, 2012, an avalanche hit a military base at Gayari sector in Siachen Glacier, trapping 140 soldiers and civilian contractors under deep snow. It was the worst tragedy which the Pakistani military has experienced in the area. The incident occurred at about an altitude of 16,000 feet and 180 miles northeast of Skardu, the capital of Baltistan. Pakistan’s then President Asif Al ...

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Siachen Sector: Two more bodies of Shaeed soldiers recovered from Gayari

 Two more dead bodies of Shaheed soldiers, who came under a huge snow slide last year, were recovered from Gayari sector in the ongoing search operation during last 36 hours. According to a spokesman of Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) here Wednesday, so far 131 bodies had been recovered while search for remaining nine bodies was continuing. It may be mentioned that on April 7, 2012, 140 soldiers and ...

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Pakistan Election 2013 – An overview

By Zaheerul Hasaan According to the latest unofficial results, so far Nawaz Sharif led party ML (N) won 125 National Assembly seats; PPP party went from first to second position and won 32 seats. Whereas, PTI under the chairmanship of old cricket team captain Imran Khan emerged as third largest party after wining 31 National Assembly seats. To win a simple majority, a party or coalition would have to bag 13 ...

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U.S.- Sino Trouble

By Harold Brown Xi Jinping, China's newly anointed president, made his first visit to the United States in May 1980. He was a 27-year-old junior officer accompanying Geng Biao, then a vice premier and China's leading military official. Geng had been my host the previous January, when I was the first U.S. defense secretary to visit China, acting as an interlocutor for President Jimmy Carter's administration. ...

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Doctor’s Strike in Balochistan and Army’s Support

By: Brigadier Agha Ahmed Gul(R) The Doctors are on strike for the past 36 days in Balochistan and the province ably led by Aslam Raisani, the CM, instead of responding to their demands ordered jailing the Doctors. After a scuffle with the Police, which otherwise fails in its core duties, doctors were stuffed into prison vans and put in jail, all 65 young doctors in Quetta. The Lawyers probably thanked Almig ...

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Strengthening the morale of Armed forces

by Khalid Khokhar WHILE addressing a group of officers at GHQ on November 5, the Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani warned that much is desired for all state institutions to work within their constitutional limits. The political pundits observed that the statement carried veiled challenges to the judiciary as well as media creating uproar in political, legal and social circles. The stateme ...

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CHAPTER FROM HISTORY: Why Musa was made C-in-C

By Aslam Minhas [caption id="attachment_3459" align="alignright" width="279"] General Musa - Former C in C Pak Army[/caption] In October 1958, Ayub appointed General Mohammed Musa (who rose from the ranks) as the next C-in-C with Lt-Gen Muhammed Habibullah Khan as his Chief of Staff. In doing so, Ayub overlooked Lt-Gen Habibullah Khan, an officer technically and professionally more qualified than Gen Musa. ...

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