The Past is Prelude‘Experience is a wonderful thing; it enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it’.Anonymous In the last two hundred years, the remote and mysterious Afghanistan and its inhabitants catch international headlines in the context of internal power struggles and inevitable sucking in of outsiders. The context and cast of…
As the US Strategy Review on Afghanistan is nearing completion, divergent perceptions are being aired by statesmen, resistance leaders, think tanks, military organisations, eminent persons, lobbyists, well-wishers, spoilers etc. President Karzai spoke his heart out during an interview to the Washington Post. He has urged the United States to reduce the visibility and intensity of…
Lieutenant General ® Jahandad Khan passed away on February 13, 2011 in Rawalpindi few days after surgery. He was known to his close fellow officers as JD. He had a rewarding military career but he was admired and loved by many for his philanthropic work spanning over two decades. JD passed out from Pakistan Military…
Gen MacArthur while addressing the joint session of the houses of the USA, made a historical remark that, “Old Soldiers never die they just fade away.” Major general NK Babar, SJ and Bar breathed his last in early hours of 10th Jan at Peshawar. He was a great leader of men, who infused confidence in…
People like late Maj Gen Nasir Ullah Khan Babar are not born every day. He was twice awarded Sitara-e-Juraat in his military career i.e. in the 1965 and 1971 war and once a Hilal e Shujaat in his civilian career i.e. when he was the Interior Minister and had got released, single handedly, a bus…
It is indeed a privilege and an honor to stand here to-day to pay tribute to the memory of Late Maj Gen Nasirullah Khan Babar. He was a colleague, a friend and above all one of the most striking personalities of our living memories. We have heard the different accounts of those who knew him…
“The two leaders have a shared vision for peace, stability and prosperity in Asia, the Indian Ocean region and the Pacific region and committed to work together, and with others in the region, for the evolution of an open, balanced and inclusive architecture in the region. In this context, the leaders reaffirmed their support for…
Major General Naseerullah Babar was born in 1928 Ilmaeil Khel near Akora Khattak Nowshera, Khyber-Pukhtunkhwa Pakistan. His family is from the Babar tribe of Pashtuns and hails from the village of Pirpiai in district Nowshera. Babar’s early education was from Presentation Convent School, Peshawar from 1935 to 1939. From 1939 to 1941 he attended Burn…
The major factor fueling corruption is that public servants dread their life after retirement. Remaining honest and depending on their meagre savings and pension means they cannot maintain the same lifestyle they had been leading. Given today’s prices and rents, they are not wrong, their abiding fear of not having a roof over their head…
It will be a privilege to publish letters from readers about articles writtenin previous issues or giving suggestions. No letter will be printed whichindulges in personalized attacks or is meaningless in the context of DJ To: Mr. Ikram Sehgal Chief Editor Defence Journal Karachi, Pakistan Dear Mr. Sehgal, Already well into the New Year I…
