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Greetings! I've been a long-time visitor of this forum ever since my school days, and I shall forever be thankful to the mods and posters who keep this forum alive with debate and the latest defence related news. I get much of my knowledge and views from right here. I just wished to ask the...

I applied for 144 PMA L/C some time in mid-June, and finally received my ISSB call letter on the 22nd of June, 2019. I'd just been discharged from CMH, Multan, about 4 days prior, after an unpleasant bout of enteric fever that left me incredibly weak. I was discharged just one day prior to my...

Right, do excuse me but I've been giving this a bit of thought recently, especially in light of recent events. Do we need to construct a new identity for ourselves as Pakistanis? As I understand, following independence, Pakistan, in an attempt to build its own identity, clung to a strong...

Aafreen. Nothing more to say, really.

Imran Khan envisions a Pakistani welfare state. Is it possible? Shahrukh WaniUpdated August 28, 2018 Facebook Count595 Twitter Share 33 Pakistan has a new leader at the helm who, if his first address to the nation is to be considered at face value, is set to make a radical departure from the...

Found this rather interesting article regarding how Plato was not a supporter of democracy: https://classicalwisdom.com/plato-and-the-disaster-of-democracy/ Democracy, after all, is mob-rule. In a country like ours, where sentiments and emotions hold more sway than logic and reason, what...

Hello and welcome all! I was just wondering as to the experience of the valued serving and retired offrs who are memebers of this forum regarding mess life in the army today. As per my understanding/observation, mess life has diminished over the past 20 years, and officers much prefer staying...

Greetings to all! Right... I opened a similar thread a few weeks ago, however, it was deleted during the issue of the database corruption/hack of PDF.... My dogged determination (or rather, my skill for annoying others :angel::angel:) has pushed me to start this thread... The thread may act as...

Right, so excuse my rambling a but here is my take: 1- Please bring back the Sam Browne belt with the SD... Armd. offrs or offrs w/ other types of cross-belt should wear only the bottom belt portion and not the shoulder belt.... 2- Bring back the cummerbund with the Blue Patrol... 3- For...

A few months ago, whilst casually browsing across defpak, I ran across a particular thread, which I've tried looking for many a time, unsuccessfully... The thread in question was basically an article (from ET or Dawn, I think) about a group of three Army offrs who wrote a report recommending...