News From Rawalpindi
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marriage of Tariq Sher's daughter on 12 March 2009 at AWT main banquet hall was
the venue of a mini course get together since a large number of serving and
retired course mates attended. A-Z Shahid from Karachi, smartly dressed
Zahir from Lahore and Ghazanfar from chilly Abbottabad were among those who came
from out satiation. Locals included Agha Umar Farooq, Ashraf Tabbasum, Shahid
Maqbool, Farooq, Munawar, Azhar Ali Shah, Mumtaz Bajwa, Rashid Javeed, Shahid
Ahmed, Munir, Dr sahad (Mukhtar), Javed Ashraf, Sheikh sahab (Tahir), Qayyum, AA
Janjua, AN Janjua, Mansur, Zuhr Khan, Jahangir, Rizwan, Raja (Jinn), Allah
Dad (Kurd??), Hayee, Asif, Zafar Masud, Asim Jilani, The WASA man (Islam),
Shigri, Shoaib Mumtaz (the election man), Akram, Alamgir - anyone left. Yes of
course Jalal HB (Myself). The function ended with a good dinner amid chats of
yester years and discussions on future plans and prevailing situation.
Mini get together was held in Rawalpindi on the eve of marriage of daughter of Lt Col Mujeeb. Many course mates attended. Zhair and Younis had come from Lahore while Vincent Samuel who is currently in Pakistan was also there. Others included Shahid Maqbool, Farooq, Tariq Sher, Asif, Ali Akbar, Mansoor, Naveed Akbar, Zafar and of course myself. The picture quality is not very good as I shot these with my mobile phone. The event was well attended and all of us had a good chat - specially with Vincent Samuel whom we met almost after passing out from PMA.
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Rawalpindi Get Together : And finally there was a get together of the Rawalpindi Chapter on 25th October 2008 at the Rendezvous Restaurant, Saddar, Rawalpindi. I walked in at around 8:15 as against 8.00 PM and found a number of course mates already in the open lawn of the restaurant, gossiping and welcoming anyone who dropped in. And soon it was all packed with some 47 of us.
The get together was basically aimed at welcoming the three two-stars who have recently been posted to Pindi and in all we have five two stars, namely Bajwa, Solehria, Shahid Maqbool, Zaheer and Rashid. Of the recently retired one stars, we had Qayyum, Kahlon, AN Janjua (AA Janjua and AI Janjua were absent), beside myself. Of the serving one stars we had the roaring Tariq Sher, Mansoor and Sheikh Tahir.
The gossiping and photographing by me to add pictorials in the otherwise stale website of the course continued till a call for the dinner was made by the course secretary, Col Asif. The dinner was very lavish, tasty and everyone who wasn't watching his weight had plates full. After the dinner, Col Aisf got us all together and apprised all of course fund details, donations by some of the course mates (including announcement of Rs. 10,000.00 by Sir Basharat right there on the spot). He also apprised us of the settlement of late Javed Sutan's family on Peshawar Road and education of his children.
He appreciated the efforts of some of the course mates, specially Munawar A Solehria in his efforts to look after the settlement phase of late Javed's family. Asif also spoke of my concern about the stalemate in the website and everyone readily agreed to participate in providing me some news to rejuvenate the site. It was also decided by a unanimous vote that the we will once again give the opportunity to Ghazanfar to host the 2009 Annual Course Get Together at Abbottabad. Although Ghazanfar proposed a two night stay at Abbottabad, but it was finally decided to have a one night show as was done in 2008. The get together finally ended with a Three Cheers by Munir for Asif for being a very effective course secretary and for his efforts to keep everyone onboard and well informed about everyone. |
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6 September 2008 :
While the nation observed 6 September 2008 as
the Defence Day, a large number of one stars finally donned off their
uniform and bid farewell to a 33 years long army career. Those who are
bidding farewell to arms include
Arjumand, Tahir Kahloon, Jalal, Munir (took an
earlier relief), Abdur Rehman,
Akhtar Nawaz, Bajwa, Akhtar Abbas, Qayyum and Rao Jamil
(anyone left??) - Look at the following young and
energetic faces and then look back in a mirror and find out what have we all
lost and gained.
Read the Full Report ...
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