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Posted by admin in Col.Riaz Jafri (Retd) Column on October 26th, 2019
BILAWAL’S EAR-PIERCING SHRIEKS AND RANTS
Could someone please advise, educate, train and rehearse Bilawal Zardari in the art of public speaking and not let him holler and howl, shriek and scream without any intonation, cadence or modulation in a rather comical exuberance for a public leader that he aspires to be and who becomes not only a bland monotonous lackluster but quite laborious and strenuous for the ears to listen to him.
His speeches leave me with little option but to switch channels.
Col. Syed Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Posted by Billa in Col.Riaz Jafri (Retd) Column, OPINION:OP-ED on October 4th, 2018
According to media reports and telecasts quite a lot of demolition work is being carried out all over in various cities and towns of the Punjab to clean up and widen the roads and bazaars by flattening the illegal encroachments. Whereas on the one hand it is a welcome step but on the other millions and possibly billions have been lost by some. The question arises how, why and by whom was it all allowed in the first instance? The municipal Inspectors are known for their hawk’s eye to detect even an inch of transgression of a door or a gate of a house under construction, then how can such huge structures like hotels and showrooms are ignored? Even a Kindergartner would smell corruption in such a scheme of affairs.
https://nationalcourier.pk/metropolis/houses-shops-demolished-anti-encroachment-drive/
Demolishing the encroachments is, therefore, not enough. The concerned Municipal and Cantonment officials MUST also be RUTHLESSLY demolished to serve as a severe and exemplary deterrent for others in future.
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
E.mail: jafri@rifiela.com
Posted by Dr. Salman in Col.Riaz Jafri (Retd) Column on December 30th, 2017
LETTER TO EDITOR
December 28th, 2017
A blame game for the ‘murder’ of Benazir Bhutto has erupted between Bilawal and Musharraf where Bilawal holds Musharraf as the murderer and Musharraf throws the blame squarely on the shoulders of Zardari. If Musharraf was the killer why was he not tried for it by the Zardari 5 year government? There are tons and tons of evidence available which if sifted even cursorily could easily pinpoint the real culprit. A very simple question that comes to one’s mind is, “would BB have died had she not showed up out of the roof hatch of the bulletproof vehicle?” The most probable answer is “no” as the other five in the vehicle survived the blast. Then who asked her to stand up and show herself out of the roof hatch? Most certainly not Musharraf PERIOD.
Col.Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
30 Westridge 1
Rawalpindi 46000
Pakistan
Tel: (051) 5158033
E.mail: jafri@rifiela.com
Posted by aafridi4u in 4TH GENERATION US WAR AGAINST PAKISTAN, Col.Riaz Jafri (Retd) Column, The Great Game on August 14th, 2017
Strange are the ways of Allah and Allah be praised. While a galaxy of the Pakistan army senior officers died in a mysterious C-130 Hercules plane crash on 17 August 1988 at Bahawalpur that included President Zia ul Haq, the Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Akhtar Abdur Rehman and the United States Ambassador to Pakistan, Arnold Lewis Raphel, the following escaped the ultimate through the sheer pull of their luck :
1. Lt Col. Arshad Hussain, AMC, (Retired as Maj Gen) – personal physician of the President. He was at Chaklala airport with his usual Emergent & Life Saving medicine chest ready to board the C-130, when he was spotted by the President and told, “Hey Doc, what are you doing here? Go back, I shall be back by the evening.” The Doc saluted and left, little knowing his life was saved and that he had saluted the President for the last time in his life!
2. Brig. Muhammad Younas Khan – MS (Military Secretary) to the President. An essential Staff Officer who normally accompanies the President wherever he goes, was told by the president himself to stay back and perform certain other tasks by the time he returns.
3. Gen. K. M. Arif, who had been by then promoted to 4 star General and appointed as the COS (Chief of Staff) in the president’s secretariat while Gen. Aslam Baig Mirza had been appointed as the VCOAS in his place. Well – well — something unbelievable happened in the annals of the military Staff Duties. General Rafaqat – the PSO (Principal Staff Officer) to the President was in the President’s office and heard him talking to the U.S. Ambassador Raphel on the phone. The president was asking the ambassador to accompany him to Bahawalpur to witness the field trials of the American M-61 Tank there that Pakistan was evaluating to purchase. As an added emphasis Zia told Raphel that Arif would also be there who had recently watched the tank’s maneuvers in the States on a visit there. Gen. Rafaqat, while finalizing ! the list and tying up the details of all those who were to go to Bahawalpur, informed all except Gen Arif, whom he took it for granted that the President had already asked him to be there. But in fact and to the good luck of Gen. Arif the President had not, and so he was not there on the fateful day.
4. Lt Gen. Rehm Dil Bhatti – IGTE (inspector General Training and Evaluation). After the demonstration he was sitting in the fateful C-130 waiting for the President to board, who was at the tarmac being seen off by many including Lt Gen. Mian Afzaal the then CGS (Chief of the General Staff). Gen Zia was discussing something important with the CGS so he asked him to accompany him to Pindi to continue the discussion in the plane. Gen Mian Afzaal, who was to go to Multan to attend some function there, on entering the plane saw Gen R D Bhatti and asked him to go to Multan in his stead. Little did Gen Bhatti or Gen Afzaal know that they were not only interchanging their destinations but their eternal destinies.
On the other hand a haughty Major General (No names please) was informed by his Captain ADC that as there were many other senior generals attending the function at Multan there was no VIP No. 1 Room available for him and that he had been booked in a VIP No.2 Room of a mess there. The haughty general asked the ADC to cancel his visit to Multan and boarded the ill fated
C-130 to return to Pindi and thus became a ‘martyr’ to his ego.
Jissay Allah Rakhey usy kon chhakhy aur jis ki ani hoay usy kon taley???
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
30 Westridge 1
Rawalpindi 46000
Pakistan
Tel: (051) 5158033
E.mail: jafri@rifiela.com
Posted by Jade in Col(Retd) Riaz Jafri OP ED, Col.Riaz Jafri (Retd) Column on August 13th, 2017
On a serious note, the spectacle of the fiasco met by the PML-N rally in which neither they could stick to any timings, nor the announced schedule of halts enroute or the public addresses by MNS or the over night stays or attract the crowds visualized by the planners, makes one wonder if their entire leadership – big and small put together cannot plan and execute a simple event of a rally from Pindi to Lahore then how could they be entrusted with the governance of a country involving Planning and Execution of hundreds of National Projects of much more import and many times magnitude or for that matter with the vital and crucial defence of the country from both internal and external threats?!
Aren’t we taking too dire a risk by entrusting the country into the hands of such nincompoops?
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
30 Westridge 1
Rawalpindi 46000
Pakistan
Tel: (051) 5158033
E.mail: jafri@rifiela.com
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