Arshad sami khan

Arshad Sami Khan, the late father of Adnan Sami Khan was a Pakistani diplomat and a soldier. He served as a fighter pilot for the Pakistani Air Force as an A.D.C for 3 Presidents of Pakistan and later served in the ministry of foreign affairs as chief of protocol for 3 Presidents and 4 Prime Ministers. source: www.thenewstrack.com In response to the above tweet, there was a lot of uproar from Pakistan where people called him a traitor! But the best response came from a student of a business school in Karachi. Ahsan Mehmood wrote a fictitious open letter as Adnan Sami’s own father, Arshad Sami (late) and wrote: Adnan, I do not wish to start with the term “Dear” or “son”, because I do not wish to acknowledge that you’re either of those for me. I am a miserable soul and I do not wish to increase my torment here. Mr. Adnan, let me introduce myself to you, because you seem to have forgotten it all. Let me refresh your arrogance – fogged memory. I am a Pakistan Air Force officer. I am the youngest recipient of Sitara Jurat. I am the recipient of the Medal of Honor from Iran, Turkey and Jordan. The Kings of these countries sought to honor me for my services. I am the recipient of multiple gallantry awards including the SJ and Sitara e Imtiaz, because I fought for my country in the 1965 war, valiantly so. I served three presidents as Aide de camp in my service, and I was taken up into foreign services after my retirement from the Air force to represent my beloved land across the w...

Arshad Sami Khan (Urdu: ارشد سمیع خان; January 8, 1942 – June 22, 2009) was a Pakistani diplomat, civil servant and fighter pilot who at peak of his career attained the highest rank of Federal Secretary. He started his career as a Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot and later served three presidents of Pakistan as their aide-de-camp (ADC) and later went on to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he served three presidents and four prime ministers as chief of protocol. He was later appointed as a diplomatic amb*ador of Pakistan to 14 countries. This was followed by his appointment as the first commissioner general of Pakistan. He was also Federal Secretary of Culture and retired as a top BPS-22 grade bureaucratic officer. He was also the father of singer and music composer Adnan Sami. Personal life Arshad Sami Khan was born in January 1942 into an ethnic Pashtun family that had migrated from Afghanistan. His paternal grandfather, General Mehfooz Jan hailed from Herat, Afghanistan and was the governor of 4 provinces in Afghanistan, namely Herat, Kabul, Jalalabad and Balkh, under the Reign of King Amanullah Khan. Khan's paternal great-grandfather General Ahmed Jan was the civil and military adviser as well as the physician to King Ameer Abdur Rahman Khan. General Ahmed Jan, the father of Gen. Mafooz Jan, was the conqueror of Kafiristan and named it Nuristan. However, at the time of the revolution during at which Habibullah Kalakani became the first ruler of Persian descent in A...

PHOTO: INDIA TIMES Singer Adnan Sami, who relocated to India some 18 years ago, has time and again received flak for his decision. Sami, who shares same birthday as Indian independence day was asked about his lineage recently, reported A social media user asked him where his father, who was a Pakistan Air Force fighter pilot, was born and had died. To which Adnan replied, "My father was born in 1942 in India and died in 2009 in India! Next!" My father was born in 1942 in India & died in 2009 in India!!! Next! The 48-year-old singer-composer, who was born in Britain and was earlier a Canadian citizen, is of Pakistani decent. His father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun, while his mother Naureen Khan was from Jammu. Adnan has been working in India for several years now, and is best known for both film and pop songs like Aye Udi Udi Udi (Saathiya) and Kabhi to Nazar Milao with Asha Bhonsle. He is mostly known for playing a variety of musical instruments and has always maintained that the love he has received from Indians is "everything" for him. Adnan, who has been staying in India since 2001, was granted Indian citizenship effective from January 1, 2016. The Home Ministry confirmed his citizenship post his appeal to legalise his stay in India. After being granted Indian citizenship, Adnan said in an interview to CNN-News18, "I was in rapture with this overwhelming love I got from India. India fell in love with me, I fell in love with her even more. And, I just said to myself ...

Recent Posts • June 3, 2023 • May 23, 2023 • May 22, 2023 • May 20, 2023 • May 16, 2023 Recent Comments Tipu Naveed on Archives Archives Categories • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Meta • • • • • Archives Archives Archives • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 15Dec 1971 Pakistan 1971- Some Unknown Truths that Accelerated its Disintegration Col Ashwani Sharma (retd), Editor-in-Chief, South Asia Defence & Strategic Review It was September 2007. I had just left the Army and moved to Delhi to take over as the editor of South Asia Defence & Strategic Review. Rajan Arya, a dear friend and owner of Pentagon Press handed me a CD one day and asked me to examine the contents. It was a script written by one Ambassador Arshad Sami Khan, former PAF Sqn Ldr decorated with a Sitara-i-Jurat during 1965 Indo-Pak war. He had the unique distinction of having served with three Presidents (namely, Ayub, Yahya and Bhutto) of Pakistan as their ADC before side stepping to the Foreign Services. The copious notes made by him during this eventful period in Pakistan’s history formed the script handed over to me. Once I opened the CD, I remained glued to my computer for hours together. It was a revealing and fascinating account of the presidential personalities, political dramas, games played behind the sce...

Historians are romantics with ingenuity to restructure the past. Their perceptions are based on socio-politico-economic analysis alone, often with a proclivity to miss out on the human drama of the real people. 'Three Presidents'.. is a first-hand story-- history narrated from a personal perspective, presented as it happended and not reconstructed by historians. The book covers the period between 1965 and 1972, an era most turbulent not only the history of Pakistan but that of the entire subcontinent. It provides clear glimpses into the minds of the Pakistani leadership as its military fought two wars with India, creating Bangladesh in the process, even as millions of people across the subcontinent suffered the consequences. There were conspiracies, treachery and acts of treason for seemingly petty personal gains. There were nations, which betrayed thier allies when they were needed the most. Ambassador Arshad Sami Khan, sj by virtue of his extensive inside knowledge gives a rare insight into Pakistan's politico-military landscape. About Author : An absorbing read as it takes the reader on a roller coaster ride of power corridors of Pakistan during some interesting and sorry years. The author having been an aide to three presidents in a long 6 years innings. as one reads about this fact in the intro one's appetite is instantly raised but there isn't much on display by the author. Mostly it's small talk, effort of showing human side of his past masters, tits n bits of how b...

LAHORE: The Lahore-born Pakistani singer Adnan Sami, who has now been granted Indian citizenship, is among half a dozen renowned personalities who had migrated temporarily to Pakistan at some stage but had somehow opted to work and live permanently in India owing to various reasons, an exclusive research conducted by the “Jang Group and Geo Television” Network reveals. But before we go on to name and discuss those celebrated personalities of the Indo-Pak Subcontinent who had preferred India to Pakistan, let us first briefly peek into the chronology of Adnan Sami’s long efforts to gain Indian nationality and the life/professional career of his distinguished father Arshad Sami Khan: Having first arrived in India on March 13, 2001 on a visit visa with the validity of one year, Adnan submitted a representation to the Indian Home Ministry on May 26, 2015, whereby requesting his stay in India on humanitarian grounds. Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi had given a favourable opinion to the Ministry of Home Affairs in this regard. (References: Rediff.com, the Times of India, The Hindu and the India Today etc) Various other Indian and Pakistani media houses reported that in November 2015, Pakistan had refused to confirm renunciation of nationality by Adnan Sami over his alleged disrespectful behaviour towards his national identity. His Pakistani passport (issued on May 27, 2010 and expired on May 26, 2015) was not reportedly renewed by the Pakistan government, which forced him to appro...