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Obituary
of an Officer and a Gentleman“AH CAPTAIN
ASGHAR ALI JILANI”!
All aspects of this very emotional issue.
[by Ikram Sehgal]
“I
see Hermes, unsuspected, dying, well-beloved,
saying to the people, “Do not weep for me,
This is not my true country, I have lived banished
from my true country — I now go back there,
I return to the celestial sphere where every one
goes in his turn.”
- Walt Whitman
Capt
(Retd) Asghar Ali (AA) Jilani, (‘Jil’
to those who knew him) passed away due to heart
failure on the evening of January 9th, 2006 in
Bahawalnagar city and was buried the next day.
He was three months into his 82nd year on this
earth and had lived a full life.
Jil
was an extremely honest person of great propriety
and integrity and a very patriotic Pakistani.
In 1972, after the creation of Bangladesh, when
he was the Manager of a rubber plantation in the
Chittagong Hill Tracts he was entreated upon by
the then Defence Minister of Bangladesh, late
Gen MAG Osmany, known affectionately among his
inner circles of subordinates as “Uncle
Oz,” to stay back in Bangladesh. But Jil,
despite having strong reservations and disagreement
about the Army’s action in (then) East Pakistan,
chose to go to Pakistan, leaving behind in Bangladesh
all the comforts of a cushy job.....more
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“AH
CAPTAIN ASGHAR ALI JILANI”!
All aspects of this very emotional issue.
[M.A. GILANI]
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Capt ASGHAR ALI JILANI
is no more in this world, shocking news
for all those who knew him intimately.
He breathed his last on 9th January 2006
at BAHAWALNAGAR city where he lived with
his wife and two teenaged sons in FIRDOS
Street – 0632273682. The news of
his sad demise was given to me by Lt Gen
KAMAL AKBAR (the famous eye specialist),
son of late Brig. A.K. AKBAR, the first
Pakistani Commanding Officer of 14Punjab
(old 2/16 Punjab but affectionately called
DOSOLAH) and the first Pakistani Col of
the Battalion. Capt A.A. Jilani had joined
14Punjab, a magnificent and second to
none unit of the Pakistan Army, in 1950.
Now it is known as the victor of JAURIAN
– 1965.
Capt A.A. Jilani
loved DOSOLAH like his own child and was
also loved and respected for his unblemished
dedication, honesty, sincerity, uprightness,
straight-forwardness and penetrating sense
of humour....more
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Differentiating
between freedom struggle and terrorism
The fine line between Freedom Struggle
and Terrorism
[JAMAL HUSSAIN
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Violence is the common
feature in both armed freedom struggles
and acts of terrorism (whether by an individual,
group, society or state). Whereas the
society has given moral and legal sanctity
to the former, the latter is considered
evil and immoral. Articles and talk shows
abound on the issue of defining terrorism
and how it must be differentiated from
genuine freedom struggles. While this
is a very legitimate concern, in practice
the issue is complicated enough to defy
an easy answer....more
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A
new nuclear morality
nuclear technology needs to be de-politicised
and discusses a new nuclear morality.
[FAZAL HABIB
CURMALLY]
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“Even
as the United States dusted off its hands
and moved on, elsewhere the radioactive
rubble of the dead cities spawned not
only a sense of dread, but also an obsessive
desire for nuclear weapons. In 1948, while
arguing to create India's Department of
Atomic Energy, Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru told Parliament, "I think we
must develop [nuclear science] for peaceful
purposes." But, he added, "Of
course, if we are compelled as a nation
to use it for other purposes, possibly
no pious sentiments of any of us will
stop the nation from using it that way."
Just three years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
those "other purposes" were
all too clear.”
“Days after Pakistan's
nuclear tests in May 1998, Japan invited
the country's foreign minister to visit
Hiroshima's peace museum. The minister
was visibly moved after seeing the gruesome
evidence of mass devastation. His reaction:
We made our nukes precisely so that this
could never happen to Pakistan.....more
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