Avoiding Armageddon 2 ISI under Gen Akhter Abdul Rehman’s command Akhter vastly expanded the size and strength of the service and much of its growth was design to wage jihad in Afghanistan Author Bruce Riedel The Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence grew . Zia’s handpicked choice for director general in 1979 was a Pashtun , Akhter […]
Avoiding Armageddon 1 Author Bruce Riedel In the 1980’s American enjoyed Pakistan’s support and won the war . Now in twenty first century , America and Pakistan are an opposite sides in Afghanistan TAMPA , FLORIDA IS a long way from South Asia , but in mid – 2011 I was there to attend a […]
جنرل اختر عبدالرحمن کی افغان ڈاکٹرین حکمت تحریر: یار خان افغانستان پاکستان کا مسلمان ہمسایہ ملک ہے اور اس سے پاکستان کے مسلمانوں کے تہذیبی رشتے صدیوں پرانے ہیں؛ لیکن بدقسمتی سے ریاستی سطح پر پاکستان اور افغانستان کے درمیان ہمیشہ ایک تناو رہا ہے، جو عالمی حالات و واقعات کے زیر اثر گھٹتا بڑھتا […]
Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 3 Author Diego Cordoves and Seling s Harrison While acknowledging that Zia had geopolitical objectives in Afghanistan , former Foreign Secretary Sattar expressed his own belief that Zia’s power struggle with Junejo was the governing factor behind the President’s eleventh hour attempt to delay the signing […]
Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 2 Author Diego Cordoves and Seling s Harrison Zia’s new civilian prime minister Mohammad Khan Junejo , sympathiszed with Yaqoob’s efforts but lacked the power to challenge the ISI , which reports directly and exclusively to the President . Another important factor that killed the Yaqoob’s […]
Gen Zia , Gen Akhtar and Geneva Agreement Part 1 Author Diego Cordoves and Seling s Harrison The Geneva negotiations were stallen in mid – 1985 , nominally over the issue of a withdrawal timetable . But the cordovez recognized that the key reason for Soviet foot dragging was the lack of progress on a […]
Avoiding Armageddon 5 Who killed Gen Zia and Gen Akhter is still a mystery In the most recent study , based on the interviews with many of Pakistani air force officers , who investigated the crash , Shuja Nawaz concludes that ” many questions still remain ” about why the plane crashed and why the […]
First ever visit of Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff 04 August 1987September 25, 2019 - 2:05 pm
Presented to Major General Akhtar Abdul Rahman Khan, Adjutant General. 1978September 25, 2019 - 1:50 pm
Farewell Dinner HQ 12 Div – Murree 25 March 1978September 25, 2019 - 1:38 pm
GOC 12 DIV June 1976September 25, 2019 - 1:12 pm
With compliments of The Commandant Pakistan Military AcademySeptember 20, 2019 - 11:09 am