Recent content by nvra911

I just read this: "In one of the government's attempts to suppress tribal uprisings in 1949, a Pakistani air force plane bombed a village just across the frontier." This is from a Library of Congress website. My lower score doesn't allow me to paste links here so I'm unable to paste the link...

Wow. What did I do to deserve this comment? Really dude, I'd like to know how did you form this opinion about me? I'm a born and bred Rawalpindian - and proud at that. I'm proud of the history, culture and people of subcontinent as a whole and of my motherland. Though I disagree with many...

media-dis-n-dat.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/islamabad-police-kill-deaf-man-thinking.html I finally found this link about the news. Does anyone here know the real inside story? What came out of the whole event? Was the man a terrorist or a deaf local resident as the family said? I am really curious.

Hey guys, I was generally talking with my Dad about Islamabad's security plan in the wake of the recent Lahore incident and like always something came up (see my previous posts). He told me that he kind of remembers that in 2009 or 2010, there was a news item that an innocent man (who was from a...

Thanks guys for all your input. I finally found out who we were talking about. It was Lt. Gen. (R) Syed Athar Ali. He was promoted to Maj. Gen. in 2000 and then to Lt. Gen. in 2004. The confusion happened because of his tenure in the UNAMSIL - Sierra Leon deployment. There he went as a...

I want to know whether in Pakistani Army, an officer from a Brigadier rank can be directly promoted to a Lt. General rank by skipping the rank or Maj. General? Does anyone know if it has has ever happened and is there a name that anyone can tell me who has had this accelerated promotion...