Bhai
Some of us, including professionals have served for Pakistan’s security in some way or another. PK has done so obviously.
Many months back, this member Zia Ul Islam, taunted at me saying IK has done this that for Pakistan, what have you done. I thought of replying back but then replied jokingly.
Back in good old days when 4G was not heard of, a project came from NLC on Torkham and Chamman border posts. A real time monitoring system had to be installed with communication ability on 3G network or at least 2.75G (EDGE) on cellular networks as redundancy apart from fiber.
The project equipment was funded by USA DOD, and a US company was to provide tech support. The question now came up for US Company that who will go and install the system. Nobody wanted to go.
We were two Pakistani engineers working in some company abroad. We were told the prospect and asked if we could head for the project. The security would be provided by FC and the logistical support by NLC.
To this day, I loathe NLC who ditched us at the chamman border post and ran away. It was FC who stood with us while we installed the system and brought it online on server. Again at Torkham, NLC gave us equipment and disappeared while FC kept standing with us as we worked near iconic bab-e-Khyber.
The connections were to be relayed to Karachi port and Port Bin Qasim. We were flown to NLC HQ adjacent to GHQ and after bringing servers online there, we went to Karachi where as usual NLC again ditched us. Just glad that we weren’t NLC employees while US company was ensuring payment to the company we worked in.
We completed the project, with all praise for FC in Baluchistan and KPK.
I post about FC and others LEAs in Baluchistan/KPK on PDF because they stood guard with us while we installed the monitoring hardware while TTP had stepped up the attacks. I don’t know if that system is upgraded to 4G or if real-time management upgrades have been made, but I’m glad that I went back to Pakistan to offer my services to the country in the domain of security services.
Bhai, unlike hundreds of arm-chair generals, some of us have “been there, done that”.