Links to Posts about PAK Armed Forces (Mostly PAF)

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 UNPUBLISHED (so far)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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INTERVIEW: What makes a Fighter Ace? (2006)

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Written many moons ago when i was an Asst. Ed with Social Pages. Published in Defence Journal September 2006 Republished in PROBENEWS(2006) Legend has it that a Sabre took off from Sargodha airfield to intercept Hunters on a fateful September morning & landed back with an Ace . 120 Seconds: Squadron Leader Alam in a Sabre is on Air Combat Patrol accompanied by his wingman. Upon observing IAF Hunters exiting after an unsuccessful air strike over Sargodha, Alam sets off in hot pursuit of the enemy formation. He pursues a fleeing Hunter and eventually shoots it down with a missile shot. He spots the other members of the Hunter formations flying very low and as he approaches the trailing member he is spotted and the entire formation breaks (violent turn) in the same direction - a fatal error as in less than two minute Alam has taken out four of them, (as confirmed by more than one independent eye witness) 1 bringing his tally for the mission to five…… And an Ace is born -
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BOOK REVIEW: The Hunger Games / Author: Suzanne Collins

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