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17 May, 7 tweets, 2 min read
It was a balmy Friday afternoon and Probyns (5) Horse was billeted under tents. (1951/2). Capt. Gul Hasan, the Adjutant and my Uncle (@HarounRashid2 father's younger brother) were sitting outside the Mess drinking beer. In the Mosque which was several hundred yards the Maulvi 2/
2/ who was belting out the Khutba, says 'aur wo dekho tumhare Afsar sharaab pee rahein hai'. The his bad luck a well-timed gust of wind carried the words to the mess. Gul Hasan sent for the Naib Risaldar Adjutant, ordered the Maulvi's close arrest and to be marched before him 3/
3/ as soon as the prayers were over. Lo! A while later the Maulvi, bayonet carrying Sawars fore and aft of him was marched before the Adjutant who had shifted to his office tent for the 'peshi'. 'Dekho, Maulvi, Tum ko koi haq nahein pohanchta kissi peh tehmat lagana; Jawano 4/
4/ acchi batein batao, namaz sakhao. Hamein maloom hai tum roza nahein rakhta aur double rashion khata, hum nein kissi ko bataya? C.O. Ko bhi nahein! Jao au phir matt karo. A shivering Maulvi was marched out. Incidentally, the Unit Maulvi (RT: Religious Teacher) was, in my 5/
5/ an NCE (Non-commissioned enrolled) alongside the Unit Tailor, Carpenter, and Janitors. Ziaul Haque raised their rank to JCO...
6/ Sorry, missed naming the Uncle: Captain Mian Safdar Rashid, later an instructor at the Armour School, Nowshera
7/ First Tweet Second Sentence: 'Too his bad luck...

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14 May
@Razarumi @murtazasolangi @husainhaqqani Excellent programme gentlemen, kudos. Exactly what many of us have been saying for well on 30 years, put out so succinctly by Ambassador Haqqani. However, 1) I would not be too sanguine about most of the Army being above politics: even 2/
2/ younger officers are discussing politics (in deprecating terms) in family gatherings, (and even in Messes which was strictly forbidden on pain of severe punishment during my time in the Army); and, 2) Perhaps when discussing the COAS's wanting to make Pakistan a 'normal' 3/
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14 May
There were some others like Sahibzada, Sirji, striking attitudes: Lt. Gen. Atiqur (Turk) Rehman, M.C. (RIP) for one. I was also a great admirer (being a stickler for discipline myself) hearing stories of how he, as Adjutant General would stop his staff car and make a passing 2/
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11 May
@Razarumi @murtazasolangi @M_Suharwardy @NadiaNaqi Excellent show today; most excellent ending, Raza. a) Everyone is still on the same page for the 10-Year Presidential/Army/Fascist/One-Party Rule: if not #Selectednikka, someone else. Note: there are many rats available: 2/
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3/ with the Political Generals, insisting on limiting them to the confines laid out in the Constitution. And then free and fair elections. NB: The condition that the country is in after 3-years of #nikka's ministrations does not lend itself to perpetuating this #Shitshow! 4/
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6 May
Whilst #nikkaNiazi aka @ImranKhanPTI spoke exactly like the ill-informed, vile #Dolt he is, and whilst I intimately know some excellent FS officers such as Ashraf Jehangir Qazi and Shahid Malik and Masood Khalid and some others, some of you folk deserve ALL the kicks in the 2/
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3/ my resignation letter on the 14th August 2018 exactly when it became clear that #nikkaNiazi was going to stay #RIGGED; 2) For never standing up for what is right and letting Aabpara treat you like serfs; 3) For meekly letting one of the 'multiple departments' in the larger 4/
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6 May
@NATO You are the most powerful military alliance ever in the history of the World that can pulverise a country of 50 Million people and a great infrastructure within 14 days: Water works; sewage systems; airports;. roads; electricity supply systems, and yet you feel the need 2/
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3/ for many years to come. Make him either to give evidence of his rumour-mongering to the Army Chief of Pakistan, or to apologise unreservedly. Whether you dismiss the man from his job or not is yours to consider...
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Dear NATO,
Greetings!
You must have seen my several tweets regarding your Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, His Excellency Stefano Pontecorvo (@pontecorvoste), who has set off a veritable firestorm in Pakistan by ill-intentioned rumour-mongering. According to news 2/
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3/ worked his heart out lifting Pakistan’s economy to a 5.8% Growth-Rate has taken public offence at this disgusting and vulgar allegation and has demanded that the Ambassador provide proof of this immediately. You are aware surely, of Pakistan’s centrality to the Afghanistan 4/
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