محمود خان اچکزئی پر مقدمہ بنا تو تمام وکلاء مشترکہ کیس لڑ یں گے، عاصمہ جہانگیر

[HAIDER]

LOL BEST

make sure inka jab bacha hoo tu uska nam Raheel hoo...

 

[niaz]

This is one of my favourite poems but why do you say Faiz was a traitor. I never heard that. His poetry is liked by all.

Faiz Ahamed Faiz was tried for treason in the Rawalpindi conspriacy case and recived a prison sentence.

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Causes

Main causes of Rawaplindi conspiracy case (busted on 9 March 1951) were three. One, a general discontent of Army's Pakistani Officers with the performance of the Liaqat Ali Khan's Government, whom they thought of as corrupt and incompetent. Two, many of the high ranking Pakistani Generals viewed the continuing presence of British Army Officers in the army as a security threat, as well as an impediment to their speedy promotions. Third, and most immediate cause was their discontent with Liaqat regime's handling of the Kashmir war with India (1948). Army officers thought Government's acceptance of UN mediation/ Ceasefire, as a 'tame surrender' and 'flouting an opportunity to capture whole of Kashmir'. It is to be noted that several Pakistan Army officers who had fought the Kashmir war, were ethnic Kashmiris and owned land over there. Maj. General Akbar Khan (who was the master mind behind the Rawalpindi Conspiracy) had communist leanings, which explains why he enlisted the support of communist/leftists intellectuals of Pakistan. e.g. Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Syed Sajjad Zaheer (Secretary General of Pakistan Communist Party). Whether USSR was actively involved in this conspiracy is not supported by any evidence. This conspiracy had no connection with Pakistan's joining SEATO or CENTO, as both these international bodies came into being much later (in 1954 and 1955, respectively).[2]

Participants

Eleven military officers and four civilians were involved in the conspiracy.[3] The main person responsible for planning the coup was Maj. Gen. Akbar Khan, the chief of general staff of the Pakistani army.[3] During the 1947 war, Khan had led Pakistani forces under the pseudonym of "General Tariq."[3] He was based in the northern city of Rawalpindi, where the army headquarters were located, while the political capital of the state was in the southern city of Karachi at the time. The civilian conspirators included leading Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, who was notably active in left-wing politics and sympathetic to the Communist Party of Pakistan andSajjad Zaheer.[1] Akbar Khan's wife, Naseem Shahnawaz Khan, was also believed to have motivated her husband to undertake this plot.


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PRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN > SINDH

Down memory lane: The last survivor of the Rawalpindi conspiracy recalls the events and imprisonment

By Our Correspondent / Photo: Ayesha Mir

Published: May 25, 2014



he lively-spirited lone survivor of the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, Zafarullah Poshni, read his book ‘Zindagi Zindan Dili Ka Naam’ at the Readers Club on Friday. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

KARACHI:

Around 20 neatly dressed men of middle and old age sat silently listening to the 88-year-old Zafarullah Poshni — the lone survivor of the Rawalpindi conspiracy case – who was reading out a paragraph from his book, Zindagi Zindan Dili Ka Naam Hai.

It was a meeting at the Readers Club on Friday evening with Poshni about his book and he was methodically describing the personalities of everyone accused in the conspiracy, narrating events from his life in jail with a tinge of humour in his speech and the audience responded to every sentence.

The book describes in detail the four years that Poshni spent in jail with the military officers and civilians who were accused and then convicted for hatching a conspiracy against the civilian government of former prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951.

Poshni was convicted in the case and spent four years in the Hyderabad central jail along with Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and eminent writer and the then Communist Party of Pakistan general secretary, Syed Sajjad Zaheer; also among the 15 accused of the conspiracy.

Poshni, who was a captain in the Pakistan Army, says that he was in the platoon of the then Major Ishaq Muhammad and was introduced to then Major-General Akbar Khan by Major Ishaq.General Khan was behind the planning of the conspiracy, which according to Poshni was ultimately rejected in a meeting held at Major Khan’s residence on February 22, 1951, at Rawalpindi. That meeting was later termed the ‘Rawalpindi Conspiracy’.

“The communist party was under tremendous pressure from Liaquat Ali’s government and it was not allowed to operate openly,” he claimed. “Its leaders’ arrest warrants were issued and some of them were forced to go underground.”

Poshni said that General Khan’s wife, Begum Nasim Akbar, brought Faiz and Zaheer into the plan. “The conspiracy and the Communist Party of Pakistan had no association with the Soviet Union,” he said, negating the general notion that exists in the case history.

“Around 60 years have passed but I can still remember the pressure of those days,” he said. “The trial began on June 15, 1951, at 8am. A K Brohi was heading the prosecution and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy headed the defence.” He then described the characters of the two lawyers; the former as a meticulous man who come to the court fully prepared for his case and the latter as a brilliant man who would go through the witnesses’ statements for 10 minutes and then would continue his cross-question for hours.

Poshni was of the opinion that if the conspiracy had managed to successfully overthrow the government, the communist party and the leftists would still not have been able to rule the country because of the differences in ideologies and thinking of the people accused in the case. “Major Ishaq was a hot-tempered man who would even exchange hot words with the tribunal judges. Zaheer and Faiz sahab were cool and polite. Zaheer would always dress neatly and I hesitate about speaking on Faiz. He would speak little and often smoked in silence. He would use perfumes and would say ‘Khushbu sunnat hai and I am a part of the Islamic civilisation’,” he said, underlining the differing natures of the conspirators.

In his book, Poshni compared their time in jail to that of women that are not allowed outside their houses and resorted to petty squabbles to fight their boredom. “We would squabble and would insult one another behind their backs,” he said. “If you imprison all the intellectuals of the world together for six month, they would start squabbling like petty women over domestic disputes,” he said, reading a paragraph from the book.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2014.


http://tribune.com.pk/story/712677/...nspiracy-recalls-the-events-and-imprisonment/

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Faiz Ahamed Faiz was tried for treason in the Rawalpindi conspriacy case and recived a prison sentence.

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Causes

Main causes of Rawaplindi conspiracy case (busted on 9 March 1951) were three. One, a general discontent of Army's Pakistani Officers with the performance of the Liaqat Ali Khan's Government, whom they thought of as corrupt and incompetent. Two, many of the high ranking Pakistani Generals viewed the continuing presence of British Army Officers in the army as a security threat, as well as an impediment to their speedy promotions. Third, and most immediate cause was their discontent with Liaqat regime's handling of the Kashmir war with India (1948). Army officers thought Government's acceptance of UN mediation/ Ceasefire, as a 'tame surrender' and 'flouting an opportunity to capture whole of Kashmir'. It is to be noted that several Pakistan Army officers who had fought the Kashmir war, were ethnic Kashmiris and owned land over there. Maj. General Akbar Khan (who was the master mind behind the Rawalpindi Conspiracy) had communist leanings, which explains why he enlisted the support of communist/leftists intellectuals of Pakistan. e.g. Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Syed Sajjad Zaheer (Secretary General of Pakistan Communist Party). Whether USSR was actively involved in this conspiracy is not supported by any evidence. This conspiracy had no connection with Pakistan's joining SEATO or CENTO, as both these international bodies came into being much later (in 1954 and 1955, respectively).[2]

Participants

Eleven military officers and four civilians were involved in the conspiracy.[3] The main person responsible for planning the coup was Maj. Gen. Akbar Khan, the chief of general staff of the Pakistani army.[3] During the 1947 war, Khan had led Pakistani forces under the pseudonym of "General Tariq."[3] He was based in the northern city of Rawalpindi, where the army headquarters were located, while the political capital of the state was in the southern city of Karachi at the time. The civilian conspirators included leading Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, who was notably active in left-wing politics and sympathetic to the Communist Party of Pakistan andSajjad Zaheer.[1] Akbar Khan's wife, Naseem Shahnawaz Khan, was also believed to have motivated her husband to undertake this plot.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawalpindi_conspiracy
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PRESS TRIBUNE > PAKISTAN > SINDH

Down memory lane: The last survivor of the Rawalpindi conspiracy recalls the events and imprisonment

By Our Correspondent / Photo: Ayesha Mir

Published: May 25, 2014



he lively-spirited lone survivor of the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, Zafarullah Poshni, read his book ‘Zindagi Zindan Dili Ka Naam’ at the Readers Club on Friday. PHOTO: AYESHA MIR/EXPRESS

KARACHI:

Around 20 neatly dressed men of middle and old age sat silently listening to the 88-year-old Zafarullah Poshni — the lone survivor of the Rawalpindi conspiracy case – who was reading out a paragraph from his book, Zindagi Zindan Dili Ka Naam Hai.

It was a meeting at the Readers Club on Friday evening with Poshni about his book and he was methodically describing the personalities of everyone accused in the conspiracy, narrating events from his life in jail with a tinge of humour in his speech and the audience responded to every sentence.

The book describes in detail the four years that Poshni spent in jail with the military officers and civilians who were accused and then convicted for hatching a conspiracy against the civilian government of former prime minister Liaquat Ali Khan in 1951.

Poshni was convicted in the case and spent four years in the Hyderabad central jail along with Urdu poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and eminent writer and the then Communist Party of Pakistan general secretary, Syed Sajjad Zaheer; also among the 15 accused of the conspiracy.

Poshni, who was a captain in the Pakistan Army, says that he was in the platoon of the then Major Ishaq Muhammad and was introduced to then Major-General Akbar Khan by Major Ishaq.General Khan was behind the planning of the conspiracy, which according to Poshni was ultimately rejected in a meeting held at Major Khan’s residence on February 22, 1951, at Rawalpindi. That meeting was later termed the ‘Rawalpindi Conspiracy’.

“The communist party was under tremendous pressure from Liaquat Ali’s government and it was not allowed to operate openly,” he claimed. “Its leaders’ arrest warrants were issued and some of them were forced to go underground.”

Poshni said that General Khan’s wife, Begum Nasim Akbar, brought Faiz and Zaheer into the plan. “The conspiracy and the Communist Party of Pakistan had no association with the Soviet Union,” he said, negating the general notion that exists in the case history.

“Around 60 years have passed but I can still remember the pressure of those days,” he said. “The trial began on June 15, 1951, at 8am. A K Brohi was heading the prosecution and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy headed the defence.” He then described the characters of the two lawyers; the former as a meticulous man who come to the court fully prepared for his case and the latter as a brilliant man who would go through the witnesses’ statements for 10 minutes and then would continue his cross-question for hours.

Poshni was of the opinion that if the conspiracy had managed to successfully overthrow the government, the communist party and the leftists would still not have been able to rule the country because of the differences in ideologies and thinking of the people accused in the case. “Major Ishaq was a hot-tempered man who would even exchange hot words with the tribunal judges. Zaheer and Faiz sahab were cool and polite. Zaheer would always dress neatly and I hesitate about speaking on Faiz. He would speak little and often smoked in silence. He would use perfumes and would say ‘Khushbu sunnat hai and I am a part of the Islamic civilisation’,” he said, underlining the differing natures of the conspirators.

In his book, Poshni compared their time in jail to that of women that are not allowed outside their houses and resorted to petty squabbles to fight their boredom. “We would squabble and would insult one another behind their backs,” he said. “If you imprison all the intellectuals of the world together for six month, they would start squabbling like petty women over domestic disputes,” he said, reading a paragraph from the book.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 25th, 2014.


http://tribune.com.pk/story/712677/...nspiracy-recalls-the-events-and-imprisonment/

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Thank you sir, IDK about that. It is really surprising to know that there was once a communist party in Pakistan. And of these reasons seem really absurd for indicting him

 

[Lavrentiy]

Raheel Sharif says that statements of Achakzai etc. are hurting national interests. WTF

Can the army boot-lickers and FA pass Generals care to explain that how a few statements by anyone hurt national interest.

Instead of going after terrorists and sectarian haters , the nuclear-armed military machine is willing to go after a woman named Asma Jehangir. Wow, how brave of them

If the military and its fan boys have any real ghairat, go after Mullah Fazlullah or even Molvi Abdul Aziz (who resides in Aabpara, Islamabad right next to ISI headquarters).

So-called World's No. 1 agency cannot eliminate a terrorist in their own neighbourhood.

So be ready for criticism and stop whining when someone like Achakzai steps foot on your inflated egos.