Maybe members would be more than willing and helpful with their original collection of pictures, if they know who is the thread starter.
For Beginers, the email address of the thread starter mentioned above is of
Mr Brian Cloughley...
The author of 'A History of the Pakistan Army' which was published in 2006 amongst others. The Author is loved in Pakistan Gov., Military establishment and invited as Guest. Some say's that this Ex-Diplomat's knowledge about Pakistan Military is more than some of the serving generals for he has access to records which most are not even aware of.
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Brian Cloughley, AM
Introduction
This site introduces Brian Cloughley, who is a commentator on South Asian political and military affairs. He contributes to many publications, and each month updates the military sections of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Nepal for Jane's 'Sentinel'.
He is an adviser on security and political matters to firms with clients having interest in investment opportunities in South Asia and especially in Pakistan.
His book, 'War, Coups and Terror' describing the Pakistan Army in the years 1972-2008 is to be published in September by Pen & Sword Books (UK). It contains much new information about the army and its successes and problems.
He is engaged in editing the diaries of LtGen (retd) Ali Mohammad Jan Aurakzai, who was military commander in North West Frontier Province in 2001-2004 and Governor from 2006-2008. The narrative will extend to 6 January 2008, when General Aurakzai resigned his post.
His wife's letters to her mother in 1980-1982, when Cloughley was deputy head of the UN Mission in Kashmir (UNMOGIP), titled 'Letters of a Kashmir Memsahib' are about to be submitted to a lucky publisher.
His briefing paper of 24 January 2008 for Bradford University's Pakistan Security Research Unit, titled 'Insurrection in Pakistan's Tribal Agencies', can be found at
http://spaces.brad.ac.uk:8080/display/ssispsru/Publications
On 31 January he was interviewed about Pakistan's tribal areas on Radio Australia :
Late Night Live - 31 January 2008 - Pakistan's perilous frontier
and BBC Radio 4 broadcast two programmes (Sunday 3 and 10 February) on Pakistan, to which he contributed. See
BBC - Radio 4 - Uncovering Pakistan - A Leap of Faith
A half-hour interview for the Islamabad-based TV Channel NewsOne was broadcast on 23 March.
He spoke at a conference on the India-Pakistan Peace Process on 19 March. The conference was arranged by the University of Leicester in conjunction with the Royal United Services Institute in London, where it was held.
He is contacted regularly by radio stations round the world, and VOA carried two interviews conducted on 22 and 24 April.
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The third edition of his book 'A History of the Pakistan Army' was published in 2006.
It was published in UK and US editions in 2007.
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He spoke at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on 29 September 2006 on 'Key Developments on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border', and delivered the Altaf Gauhar Memorial Lecture at the Prime Minister's Secretariat in Islamabad on 27 November on the same topic. (See, among other media coverage,
Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan.)
He gave a talk on problems along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border at the Royal United Services Institute in London on 17 April 2007, immediately before leaving for a visit to the region.
Articles have included analyses of Pakistan's religion and madrassas; 'Tribes and Pipelines', about Balochistan; an analysis of Pakistan's military operations in South Waziristan, and other matters affecting Pakistan and the region.
A series of analyses on Islamic topics (the Sunni-Shia nexus; Wahhabis, Ahmadiyas, etc)was published in Jane's Islamic Affairs Analyst. They included examination of the tribal-Taliban-Kashmir nexus in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.
Other articles included analyses of the barrier along the Line of Control in Kashmir, various aspects of religiosity, and Pakistan's further problems in its North West Frontier Province. "Lessons from Afghanistan's Mujahideen" was published in 'Foreign Report' (anonymously, as are all analyses therein) and, in August FR had a depressing summation of Britain's involvement in Helmand Province.
An analysis of Pakistan's Frontier peace acords is in FR in April 2007. The RUSI website has a brief analysis of the crisis at the Red Mosque in Islamabad in July 2007.
A book publication appears in 'Nuclear Risk-Reduction in South Asia' (Palgrave Macmillan 2004), edited by Michael Krepon of the Stimson Center in Washington, titled 'Risk-Reduction in Kashmir'.
Other regional interests include the Paracel and Spratly Islands' complexities, the Kuriles, the occupation of Diego Garcia by the UK/US, Vietnam, and East Asia/Pacific relations. He has many connexions in Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga.
He visits the sub-continent most years, and spent four weeks in November and December 2003 in Pakistan, Pakistan-administered Kashmir, India and Indian-administered Kashmir. During his visit he had a forty minute discussion with President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, and meetings with senior Indian figures. His visits in 2004 were equally interesting and productive, and during his stay in Pakistan and India in December 2005 - January 2006 he again met with President Musharraf, and had many other discussions in Delhi and Islamabad.
He visited again in May 2006 and from 25 October to 30 November, including a period in Afghanistan. From 20-23 November he attended IDEAS 2006, Pakistan's defence seminar and exhibition in Karachi, as a guest of the Pakistan government. He also visited in April-May 2007 and July-August, having discussions with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, the Chief of the General Staff, and other senior officers, business people, and political figures.
His most recent visit was 27 February - 13 March 2008, when again he met senior figures and conducted research for an analysis of Pakistan defence production capability which will appear in an international journal. In 2007 he had lengthy meetings with the then Director General Inter Services Intelligence, General Kayani, who is now Chief of Army Staff.
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Brian Cloughley served in the British and Australian Armies, having joined the British Army as a private soldier in the Intelligence Corps in 1958 after failing the eyesight test to be admitted to the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.
He was later commissioned, and then transferred to the Royal Artillery. He spent nine years on regimental duty, mainly as a Forward Observer, and saw active service in Borneo with 42 Commando, Royal Marines; 1st Battalion Sarawak Rangers; and 4th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment.
He also served as an intelligence officer in Cyprus at the end of colonial rule, on attachment with the Jordan Desert Police Force, as Reconnaissance and Survey Officer in a nuclear missile regiment in Germany, and officer commanding the Australian Psychological Operations Unit in Vietnam.
Later appointments included deputy head of the UN mission in Kashmir (1980-1982), Staff Officer 1 (Force Structure) in Australian Army HQ (during which time he was appointed to the Order of Australia, or AM), Director of Protocol for the Australian Defence Force, and Australian defence attaché in Islamabad (December 1988 - July 1994).
He has been involved in analysis of South Asian affairs since the late 1970s. In 1985 he visited Pakistan at the invitation of President Zia, and travelled extensively in Balochistan. In 1996-1997 he was consultant to the OECD on the relationship between defence expenditure and international aid in South Asia and had government-level discussions in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
He delivered the Fifth Dr L.M. Singhvi Lecture in Pluralism at the University of Leicester, on 'Creating a Climate of Confidence in Indo-Pakistan Relations.'
He delivered presentations on Confidence-building Measures in the Sub-continent at three eminars held at the Centre for Studies in Security in Diplomacy at the University of Birmingham.
The Pakistan Security Research Unit of Bradford University (of which he is an Associate) published his Research Brief on the Tribal Areas in March 2008.
He lives in Voutenay sur Cure in Burgundy, France.
Publications
A History of the Pakistan Army (OUP; first published 1999, Second Edition 2000, with "well-sourced commentary" on the invasion of Indian-administered Kashmir in the Kargil Sector by Pakistan troops, and the unintentional but widely-welcomed coup by General Musharraf ("a first-rate officer" as he was described as a major general by Cloughley in an official despatch in 1994).
The book has been revised and updated, and was published in a third edition in 2006 and 2007.
Indian Defence Procurement: Assessing Indian Defence Markets (London: SMi Publishing - see
SMi Group Ltd)
This is a 58,000 word analysis of the potential for foreign investment in a major Indian growth industry that, although hampered by bureaucracy and corruption is expanding enormously. The paper was revised and updated in 2007 for a private client.
In April 2004 he completed an analysis of Pakistan's defence production and procurement system and in November wrote a similar analysis on another country for a further client ; it was updated in July 2005.
In August 2006 he produced a privately-commissioned paper on the economy, investment and doing business in Pakistan, and then, in October 2007, for another client, an analysis of security conditions in various parts of the sub-continent.
He is at present engaged in a further security analysis.
Brian Cloughley
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Might not be much liked on the other side of the border due to some of his claims but nevertheless presents intresting commentary on Pakistani Defence Establishment..!!!
