Fall of East Pakistan: Options not Exercised

True mettle of a leader, political or military, is gauged when he faces adversarial situation(s), when a disaster seems imminent. When commoners lose hope and stumble to blunders, worsening the state of affairs, real leaders, showing grace under pressure, display true headship and come up with extra ordinary plans and strategies: which turn the table on the opponents or dull the defeat. Great leaders do not put their hands up, ...

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New Chief: challenges and chances

To this end, number of FC personnel has to be increased and ditch defence executed. The ditch based defence, less costly to enact, would be effective for the economy of the personnel. In fact the FC has successfully implemented it in Chamman and Zhob. Sadly, operation in Karachi appears to have died down after initial furore; it seems to have become selective to hunt and catch specific targets only. Karachi requires cleansing at a massive scale. The ...

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