News From QUETTA

Farooq's Farwell visit to Quetta:

Zaffar ID reports from Quetta about the farewell visit of Farooq as DG OS recently. As usual, Farooq from SI&T called Salim and Alizai besides ZID over a cup of tea to bid farewll to his namesake. ZID was also in Peshawar on a short visit. While there, he called on Tariq Khan. News from Peshawar is that Tariq Khans' Son wedding took place and the Valima ceremony was arranged on Sunday the 20th Of June 2010.

Dear course mates !!
Its my privilege to record, my impressions of a very brief and highly informative visit of School of Infantry and Tactics Quetta last month. I have the reasons to feel proud of my course mate sitting as commandant Infantry School. Gen Agha Umar Farooq has made tremendous and very practical improvements for trg of young officers and NCOs which I wanted to share with all of you . The measures are absolutely in line with the current operational demands and dictates. He has developed/introduced very imaginative obstacles course for the young officers which they are suppose to tackle as a combat team. This departure from a routine and outmoded form of trg and introducing a new one, which fulfils the demands of ground realities, is going to be a winning factor in any future operations undertaken by the Pakistan Army. Within a very short period of time he has introduced a highly professional culture in Infantry School. Overall, it was a great pleasure to see a great institution of Pakistan Army (where I also served as member of the faculty) prospering under the leadership of our very capable and highly professional course mate. I would urge all my course mates, visiting Quetta to see the progress, Agha has made in Infantry School in such a short time. Keep up the good work Agha and continue to remain as a source of pride for all your course mates. God Bless all living members and their families of 55. Warm Regards Iftikhar Mansoor (9 December 2009).

The ice breaks and Quetta takes precedence over Karachi Chapter which has yet to send any update on course activities of Karachi. Zaffar Iqbal Durrani takes a lead on activities in Quetta and has sent the following report: Dear Jalal, today (15 November ) a get together of Quetta Chapter was arranged by Agha Muhammad Umer Farooq in shape of a Brunch. This was on the occasion of arrival of Khalid Alizai as General Manager NADRA Balochistan and visiting Iftikhar Mansoor.

Visible are me, Agha Farooq, Salim Nawaz, Iftikhar Mansoor and Khalid Alizai. Please excuse the low quality of pictures as they were taken from my mobile phone set camera. you may like to place it on site for others information/view.

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