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Book Review: Cutting Edge PAF

WOMEN in the PAF: AN ENSEMBLE CAST by Afrah Jamal - Appeared in HILAL (Pakistan Armed Forces Magazine) Feb 2010

PAF: Both Sides of the COIN Published In HILAL(Military Mag) Jan 2010

INTERVIEW: What makes a Fighter Ace?

Book Review: Three Presidents and an Aide - Life, Power and Politics by Ambassador Arshad Sami Khan SJ Appeared in Daily Times 9 Jan 2010

EVENT: It Happened This Morning..

VIEW: You can’t handle the truth?

Book Review: Milestones in a Political Journey By M Asghar Khan PUBLISHED IN DAILY TIMES 23 JAN 2010

Sajad Haider Saved my Life - i think. UNPUBLISHED (so far)

Book Review: FLIGHT OF THE FALCON Story of a Fighter Pilot by S. Sajad Haider PUBLISHED In Daily Times 16 Jan 2010

VIEW: A BASE FOR AN EYE (PUBLISHED IN GEO NEWS BLOG)

VIEW: SPOOKS in the Dog House (Published in SHE Magazine June 2011)

VIEW: An Inconvenient Truth — According To A Little Bird

VIEW: Faisal Shahzad — the (un)true back story

VIEW: No More Sitting Ducks - Taking a Chapter from the 1980s Playbook

Book Review: Dairies of Field Marshal Ayub Khan

VIEW: From Keeping Scores to Settling Them

VIEW: Swat Deal - Profitable Merger or Hostile Takeover?

BOOK REVIEW:Inside the Pakistan Army: A Woman’s Experience on the Frontline of the War on Terror

VIEW: Coups - bloody, medium, rare

VIEW: Shakeel Afridi:The Friendly Neighborhood Informer

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BOOK REVIEW: Three Presidents and an Aide - Life, Power and Politics

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Published in Daily Times / 9 Jan 2010 Author: Ambassador Arshad Sami Khan SJ Reviewed by: Afrah Jamal MY DEAR COUNTRYMEN - three ‘nation altering words’ followed by some standard lines that come from an equally standard speech typically associated with the beginning or ending of a takeover. In Pakistan anyway. It is an increasingly familiar pattern, an unfortunate legacy and a well acted performance from otherwise green actors – that every generation gets to experience, analyze, dread and crib over for the remainder of their lives. It is also one that they seldom understand fully, can never challenge and forever speculate about. The camera eventually pans away from the triumphant or vanquished knight in fatigues! – the haze of mystery surrounding the men who wielded a nation’s fate in their hands oh so casually, remains. What happened next – is always more interesting than scripted moments of history. As an Aide-de-Camp (ADC), Arshad Sami Khan was perfectly positioned with a...
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BOOK REVIEW: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, the Politician Imran Khan, The Biography / Author: Christopher Sandford

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Thanks to Liberty Books for the review copy Reviewed by: Afrah Jamal Published in Daily Times / Saturday, October 23, 2010 Someone recalls seeing the ‘ legend ’ from a distance once at a duck shoot. An Imran Khan sighting generally sent mortal men, women, children and tabloids into frenzy. Not here. As this chap sheepishly admitted, “a fighter pilot’s ego will rival that of a highly sought after cricketing legend. ” And so Imran remained seated in the car seemingly oblivious to the trio while they stayed rooted to the spot pretending to gawk at the ducks. No duck has stolen Khan’s thunder before or since. Imran Khan’s popularity can be gauged by a passage that claims that dignitaries from other Commonwealth countries reportedly asked to see two things, one of which was our great Khan and the other was the Khyber Pass. Over time, Imran Khan would go through several transformations, moving effortlessly between international phenomena, ‘ dream catcher ’, ‘ good Samarit...
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VIEW: WOMEN in the PAF: AN ENSEMBLE CAST

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PUBLISHED in HILAL (Pakistan Armed Forces Magazine) Feb 2010 By Afrah Jamal Progressive - Conservative - Contemporary - Professional; separately these terms could apply to any service; together they were reserved for just one - the PAF. Pakistan Air Force has kept in touch with its roots through its glorious traditions and kept up with the changing times with innovative thinking. Oftentimes, traditions that made it stand apart have also stood in the way of, well - progress. Consequently, the service nimbly skipped past the one proposed change that was going to have a profound effect on the lives of countless young girls and would forever alter the way society perceived their womenfolk. Before 1994, Lady Officers were a rare sight in the PAF. So rare in fact, that when male cadets donned wigs to represent the female species in annual variety shows, nobody wondered why. By 2010, women have become an indispensable part of the service. While, PAF was no stranger to a woman in unifo...
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