| Weight | 0.4 kg |
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| ISBN | 9789694025735 |
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| Publication Date | 2014 |
| Pages | 233 |
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| Author Description | FB ALI was a rising star in the Pakistan Army when, in 1969, Gen Yahya Khan, the army chief, declared martial law and took over the country. Disheartened at the direction in which Pakistan was heading, and his inability to do anything about it, he contemplated resigning, but the 1971 war with India intervened.Given an important combat command shortly before it began he witnessed firsthand how badly this disastrous war mismanaged by the military regime and the incompetent generals it had appointed. The resulting debacle drove him to initiate and lead the army action that forced Gen Yahya Khan to hand over power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had won the 1970 election.The usual fate of Kingmakers befell him: in 1972 he was retired from the army and a few months later arrested and tried on charges of trying to overthrow the government. Narrowly escaping a death sentence, he ended up with life imprisonment, spending over 5 Years in prison before he was released following Bhutto’s ouster in another military coup. Though offered a significant role in the new setup he decided to move to Canada with his family.This memoir contains an insider account of many important events of that decade, including the 1971 India-Pakistan war and the troubles in east Pakistan that led to the creation of Bangladesh. It is also a poignant tale of courage and endurance in the face of adversity. |
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PRISON JOURNEY
A MEMOIR
₨ 1,495
“Finally, the author breaks his silence in public with this powerful memoir that is a severe indictment of a broken political and military system that led to the breakup of Pakistan and the descent into the politics of revenge and corruption.
Brigadier Ali represents a dying breed of brilliant and upright army officers who hold country above self and principle above pelf.
This book needs to be read and discussed by young officers in every regiment and headquarters of the Pakistan army. It is a paean to the “band of brothers” who dared to risk their careers for the sake of the country. Some were relatives of mine. Others I knew through my cousin, Farooq Nawaz Janjua, who too was at Attock Fort and who left this earth far too soon, after his release from prison”.
SHUJA NAWAZ
Is the Director of the South Asia Center at
the Atlantic Council, Washington. He is the author of
“Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within”
(Oxford University Press, 2008.)
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