Advice to Army Officers
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BRIGADIER ZAREEN KHATTAK WAS MY INSTRUCTOR AT THE JOL IN INFANTRY SCHOOL QUETTA IN OCTOBER-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1983 .
HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING OFFICER AND A MAN .
HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHO STOOD BY US WHEN THE FINAL EXERCISE OF INFANTRY SCHOOL WAS RE-HELD IN GHAZABAND BECAUSE OF THE DEBRIEFING THAT I GAVE , FOLLOWED BY THAT OF ASIF KHATTAK AT SIBI WHERE THE PLANNED FINAL EXERCISE WAS HELD .
SOMEHOW MANY IN THOSE DAYS WERE FAR SUPERIOR TO THE LATER LOT .WE HAD THE INDOMITABLE BRIGADIER ARIF BANGASH WHO WAS SO INTELLECTUALLY HONEST AFTER HEARING OUR DEBRIEFING THAT HE RE-ORDERED THE EXERCISE AS A PUNISHMENT FOR HAVING BEEN A HOAX EXERCISE AT SIBI IN GHAZABAND AGAIN . A DIFFERENT MAN .
NO DOUBT KOHAT HAD A SUPERIOR ENVIRONMENT THAN MORE DECADENT PLACES LIKE HINDKO SPEAKING PESHAWAR WHICH WOULD CORRUPT EVEN THE FINEST PASHTUNS FROM MEHSUD AND AFRIDI TRIBES !
THIS LETTER THAT HE WROTE TO ME BELOW HAS HISTORIC VALUE AND MAY BE READ BY ALL WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND MANY ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE MILITARY:--
