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 From:
Ayaz Ahmed Khan Air
Marshal (Retd)
To:
“Defence Journal” <defjrnl@pathfinder9.com>
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Dear Mr. Sehgal
I opened the Defence Journal on the internet recently,
and was shocked to read about the untimely demise
of Colonel Nusrat Ullah. He was your life long friend
and a trusted companion for forty years, and I pray
to God to give you the courage to bear this loss
with fortitude.
His death has left a void, which will be difficult
to bridge. Nusrat Ullah was a person of great qualities.
His unblemished character, his cool and composure
under stress, his courage and his advice were assets
that you had valued all your life. He was a gentleman
and a perfect military officer, worthy of respect.....more
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From:
Hakeem Arshid Qureshi
Maj Gen (Retd)
To:
“Defence Journal” <defjrnl@pathfinder9.com>
Subject:
A Tribute to the Memory of
a Friend
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Dear Mr. Sehgal
The evil that men do lives
after them;
The good is oft interned
with their bones;
So let it be with NUs
(Colonel Nusrat Ullah Sheikh)
But Nusrat has left behind a legacy of compassion,
tolerance, and benevolence only. Over the years,
during my association with him, I had learnt to
respect his views on life, which gave preference
to mind over matter. A multidimensional personality
he could be compassionate and demanding at one
and the same time. While he would exercise the
authority vested in him sparingly and in a benevolent
fashion, he was intolerant of any injustice perpetrated
on the defenceless. Despite being a ‘Thakur’,
he had the heart and soul of a Soofi. Firm under
pressure, he had a very special sense of humour.
Never unhappy with his situation, his face was
perpetually lit up by an inner glow....more
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From:
Mrs Zahida Nusrat Ullah
and family
To:
“Defence Journal” <defjrnl@pathfinder9.com>
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Dear Ikram ul-Majeed Sehgal
We wish to thank the Pathfinder Group, the SMS and
especially Mr Ikram Sehgal for the tremendous help
extended to us in every way, in this hour of grief....more
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From:
Col (R) Masood Anwar
To:
“Defence Journal” <defjrnl@pathfinder9.com>
Subject: External
and Internal Logic
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Dear Sir,
We are a product of logic yet we remain in conflict
with logic. This is truly comical. Needless to say,
it is less important to be logical as is to follow
a logical path because simple logic can be established
on a single point of argument but to follow a logical
approach over an extended period of time one has
to be progressively logical on a series of continuing
arguments and indeed this requires vision, wit,
pre-emption and perception. The right approach perhaps
would be to follow a logical path without essentially
being logical provided one is presentably reasonable.
In practice external and internal logic work in
close proximity and greatly influence each other.
Individually external logic deals with ideas, which
sound illogical in the beginning but with the passage
of time reconstruction of words and phrases make
them agreeable. Internal logic in its place deals
with people from different walks of life, who are
logical but unreasonable. What matters to them is
interest, and to add to the difficulties, their
interests and logic run at tangent....more
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From:
Brian
Cloughley
To:
“Defence Journal” <defjrnl@pathfinder9.com>
Subject: ‘A
History of Pakistan Army’
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Dear Ikram ul-Majeed Sehgal
My book ‘A History of the Pakistan Army’
is out of print and out of date, and I am rewriting
it for publication by Oxford University Press in
a third edition in mid-2005.
Over the years, many people have been kind enough
to write to me indicating errors of facts in the
book, and....more
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