MAN OF SUBSTANCE AND REAL TALENT AND MERIT – PA-25 SAND HURST COMMISSIONED EX MAJOR GENERAL AKBAR KHAN DSO

PAKISTAN ARMY SKETCHES BY MAJOR AGHA H AMIN (RETIRED)

MAN OF SUBSTANCE AND REAL TALENT AND MERIT – PA-25 SAND HURST COMMISSIONED EX MAJOR GENERAL AKBAR KHAN DSO – PAREECH KHEL WALKS WITH MR BHUTTO-

HE SAW ACTION IN BURMA WHERE HE WON A DSO.

HE WAS LEAD FIGURE IN PAKISTANS KASHMIR WAR OF 1947-48.

DISGUSTED WITH SHEEPISH AND MEEK DOCILE POLICIES OF PAKISTANS CIVILIAN LEADERS HE WAS PLANNING A PUTSCH WHEN HE WAS ARRESTED AND TRIED AND SENTENCED TO JAIL.

HE WAS RELEASED AFTER THREE YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT AND BECAME A LAWYER.

APPOINTED NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BY MR ZA BHUTTO IN 1972.

I MET HIM VARIOUS TIMES IN BETWEEN 1977 AND 1993 WHEN HE LIVED IN DHA PHASE TWO NEAR HOUSES OF TWO LIEUTENANT GENERALS ONE PASHTUN AND ONE KASHMIRI BOTH OF WHOM HE DESPISED THE MOST. HIS HOUSE WAS MUCH SMALLER THAN BOTH OF THE LTGS WHO HE DESPISED !

BUT HE WAS A GIANT IN STATURE COMPARED TO THESE TWO PIGMIES.

HIS FIRST WIFE WAS DAUGHTER OF SIR MOHAMAD SHAFI- TOO FIERY FOR HIM HE DIVORCED HER ULTIMATELY AND MARRIED ANOTHER LADY PROBABLY PUNJABI. WHEN I LAST VISITED HIS HOUSE IN 1999-2000 HIS SECOND WIFE WAS GETTING IT DEMOLISHED.

HE DEFINED A GUERRILLA WARFARE MODEL IN HIS BOOK RAIDERS IN KASHMIR WHICH WAS COPY CATTED BY PAKISTAN IN AFGHAN WAR AND IN VARIOUS OTHER WARS.

HE ADVISED MR BHUTTO HOW TO SACK LT GEN GUL HASSAN BASED ON HIS DEEP STUDY OF HIS CHARACTER.UNFORTUNATELY FOR ZA BHUTTO HE BECAME TOO AFRAID OF THIS GREAT MAN AND EXILED HIM AS AMBASSADOR TO CZECHOSLOVAKIA. WHEN ZA BHUTTO APPOINTED ZIA AS ARMY CHIEF AKBAR KHAN STRONGLY ADVISED HIM NOT TO TAKE CHANCES WITH A DUBIOUS DARK HORSE BUT ZAB IGNORED HIM .

MAJOR AGHA H AMIN (RETIRED)