This is the story of a young officer hardly four years service, who decided to fight alongside his old unit, raised and commanded by his father. He had grown up in the unit and earned a nick name ‘Chand Sahib’ in the unit. He left the comfortable living as a pilot in the Army Aviation…
Brigadier retired Naeem Salik is considered an authority on the study of nonproliferation, security and strategic issues. His descriptive style study on ‘The Genesis of South Asian Nuclear Deterrence: Pakistan’s Perspective’ tries to elucidate an overall setting created by South Asian nuclearization. The writer traces the genesis of nuclearization of South Asia via an overview…
Ikram Sehgal’s memoir reads more like a racy suspense novel instead of a gritty, soldierly chronicle and in his fore-ward to the book, Air Marshal (retd) Asghar Khan is right to comment that this fascinating account would make an excellent film. Sentences such as “I have gone through an odyssey and yet I am no…
Despite the symbolic references to the fall of Dhaka and secession of East Pakistan in our everyday politics, the tragedy appears to mean little, at least for the generation that grew up in the post-1971 days. There is a general apathy and lack of understanding towards this dark episode of history in the younger generation-thanks…
by Maj Gen Syed Wajahat Husain I Ferozsons (Pvt) Limited, Lahore, 2010 Maj Gen Wajahat Husain’s narrative of events that occurred before, during and after the 1947 Partition to which he was witness, is extremely readable. The lucidity and clarity of the commentary is especially pleasing. The Partition of 1947 set in motion an orgy…
1. General: Obama’s Wars under review tells the inside story of Obama making the critical decisions on Afghanistan War, the clandestine missions in Pakistan and the worldwide fight against terrorism. The books is a chronological compilation of quotes and paraphrases that Woodward has selected to demonstrate how the decision making process in this case actually…
