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| The following letters were received at [email protected]. These are the words which make this effort worthwhile. If you have a detailed comment/ feedback about this website, you can send me a letter in addition to signing the guestbook. |
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Adnan Choudhry [email protected] Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:06:57 -0800 (PST) hi, salam, i really liked your website. i lived in pakistan for 14 years, my dad and uncle were in army and i got to learn a lot about the brave men who gave up their lives for pakistan. but for the first time i got to know about lalak jan "dohat" shaheed. thanks a lot. you are doing a great job and inshallah the site will serve its purpose. one suggestion i wanted to make. the URL for the page is not an easy one to remeber. if you dont want to host is somewhere then i will atleast recommend you use some kind of re-direction. www.tsx.org is a good service to use. you can then have something like, www.menofvalor.tsx.org . u know something more easy to tell others. www.pak.org also gives re-directions. you mentioned you are working on this alone, if you need any kind of help, let me know. i will not mind helping out for a good cause. adnan. Dear Adnan, Thank you for your support. I have already taken up the domain name of www.menofvalor.8m.com, but the website will be transferred to this new URL only after a sufficient amount of content is available. Whenever the new URL is in operation, you will be duly informed. Nasir M. Khan Farook Kidwai [email protected] Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:20:00 -0500 ASA, Thanks!, Indeed, we all salute the heroes, and I feel we should commercialise the efforts to get the message in every household. farook Dear Farook, Thank you for your support. The purpose of this site is not commercial, but educational. I am trying to make sure that adequate information is available online for a person who wishes to read on the Nishan-e-Haider (e.t.c.) awardees. Since this is not a commercial venture, it would be highly appreciated if you can make some effort to forward this URL to as many people as possible, who in your opinion would perhaps be interested in the subject matter. Nasir M. Khan "Nadz" [email protected] Sat, 31 Mar 2001 16:32:14 +0400 Good job man, its an excellent effort I must say...never knew that anyone won a nishan-e-hayder after rashid minhas shaheed. Thanx for that nadz Dear "Nadz", Thank you for your support. Actually, there were 6 Nishan-e-Haider awards after Rashid Minhas. 4 of them, namely Muhammed Akram, Muhammed Mahfuz, Muhammed Hussain and Shabbir Sharif, were in the 1971 War with India and Mukti Bahini. The other two, Lalak Jan and Kernal Sher Khan, were in the Kargil Operation in 1999. Nasir M. Khan Arish Ahmed [email protected] Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:00:41 +0500 AOA! My name is Arish Ahmed and I am a Quality Assurance Engineer in NetSol pvt ltd.The largest Software house of Pakistan.i have visited your site.and its really a gr8 effort. What I want u to do is that if u want to really apraise your heroes then also propagate the role of Mujahideen in Indian held Kashmir.I am sure you will come to know such facts that even Pak Army has not accomplished.There are such operations of bravery u can find that they were not possible by any common person.But u know when there is EEMAAN in yur heart and a desire for Shahadat then Allah sends his help through unknown means. For this you can consult different Jihadi Organizations in which the most Important and effective is Lashkar-e-Tayyaba because at the moment Indians and Americans are only afraid of such tanzeems.U can better imagine that Attack on Lal-Qila Dehli was not an ordinary Marka.Then attack on Sri-nagar airport ,these are only two of them there so many athers and many more to come InshaAllah. Brother this is the time to awake Muslim Umma by letting them know what the Kufar is doing to them and i am glad that u have done something in this regard.But you can make it more effective by doing whatever is suggested earlier. Thanks and Best regards. Arish Dear Arish, Thank you for your support. The stories of the Kashmiri Freedom fighters will be put in this website as it fits into the overall concept. However, there will probably be a significant lapse of time before I can concentrate on that area. The primary reason is that this is a non commercial website, and I am working alone on it. Also, I have a primary interest and readership in the military history of Pakistan. Some day though, the Kashmiri Freedom Fighters will become part of this website for their acts of gallantry. Nasir M. Khan Muhammad Tayyab [email protected] Mon, 09 Apr 2001 18:57:27 -0400 Assalam_U_Alaikum What to say... No words... Beautiful !!! Eik arsay kay baa'd dil mei'n kheyal aya, keh mei'n wahan par kiyoo'n nahi'n hoo'n... Dil chahta hai keh leave every thing here and be one of them. They are the ppl that we r proud of and if they were not there, the future of Pakistan could have been a lot different. May Allah give them one of the "Aa'la Muqaam" in Jannat and may Allah help u in ur work. And please join me for that may Allah give us all a chance to devote ourselves in the same manner. Please pray for all including me as this is the only way to the SUCCESS here and AFTER... Allah Hafiz Muhammad Tayyab Dear Tayyab, Thank you for your support. In your other mail you corrected a mistake in one of the links on my website, thank you particularly for that. I will try to keep up with the effort as much as I can Nasir M. Khan Kaukab Iftikhar [email protected] Tue, 10 Apr 2001 18:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Dear Nasir, I was really delighted to visit your site. it is indeed a great effort & it fills my heart with pride that so many of the visitors have supported your effort. they belong to all age groups. I am indeed overwhelmed & unsble to describe my feelings, because of two reasons. firstly, it is your brain's child & you have come up with a unique & magnificient idea...this is sadqaa e jariya too as it will always continue to illumine the long forgotten portions of history & the twisted military stories, may allah give you jaza.Secondly, being a daughter of a soldier myself i cannot help associating with the armed forces, it arouses flames of patriotism & i'm emotionally attrated to evrything about shuhdaa & ghazi's. The new name in the list somebody janjua is umknown to me, add his info too My best regards & prayers for your future endevours. Kaukab. P.S: a girl in the guest bk. noticed the spelling but i would like to add that its spelled the american way.as colour & color , both are correct. Dear Kaukab, Thank you for your support. The Janjua person that you are refering to is Sowar Muhammed Hussain (Nishan-e-Haider, 1971). His full name was Muhammed Hussain Janjua, Sowar was his rank. His information is already available on the site. Thank you for your clarification on the spellings of Valor (British = Valour). Nasir M. Khan Tauseef ur Rehman [email protected] Wed, 11 Apr 2001 01:54:23 -0400 (EDT) AOA first of all i would like to congratulate u on making such an informative site. i realy want to appreciate ur effort. This site is realy worth seeing. The heroes can not be appriciated by just words and the nation should always remember its heroes coz it is their sacrfice whose fruit is eaten by the comming generations. History of heroes is long. For muslim history It starts from the Badar and it is still going on in Kashmir, Palistine and around the world. I think being muslims we should remember our heroes and also respect other nations heroes. A hero may belong to any field not necessarily just army, he may be a nation's political leader, a doctor, a nurse or whatever and he deserves respect and honour.U have started a great job and i am with u from the core of my heart. My father is a retierd army officer, my brother and my cousins all are in armies. One of the reasons i am writing to u is one of my first cousins who was in Pakistan Navy. He got shahadat in August 99. It was right after the Kargil issue when two Indian fighter planes crossed the air borders of Pakistan and hit a training plane of Pakistan. The Indians claimed that Pakistani aircraft was inside the Indian territory and that is why they hit it but the Pakistani officials claimed that the Indian aircraft crossed the Pakistani border and hit the trainiing aircraft. But these were the stoies for the media what actualy happened was never disclosed. Well I have something which ppl should know they should know the brave effort done by thise soldiers who were hit in the air and it was what they asked for. I know u r building the site step by step and at the moment u r doing it for NH. But i want to tell u that there are hundereds and thousands heroes in the history who sacrificed their lives and no body and no medals knows them u can not accomodate everyone but if we know someone we should atleast appriciate him. Waiting for ur reply Tauseef ur Rehman Software Consultant XyberMoguls B.V. Dear Tauseef, Thank you for your support. Please accept my condolences about your cousin. May Allah treat him well for his deeds. As far as your comment about there being unknown heroes is concerned, I fully agree to that, and I am assuring you that they will someday become a part of this website as well. Efforts are currently underway for the Non-Soldier Heroes of Paksitan. However, it will take time, since all my writers are doing this as a voluntary effort, and you cannot blame them for giving their own jobs a bit more importance than these writings. Nasir M. Khan Ali Ayaz [email protected] Sat, 14 Apr 2001 23:53:40 +0500 Asalam o Alikum Dear Nasir, Wonderful work. Indeed, we love them. God bless you Regards Ali Dear Ali, Thank you for your support. Nasir M. Khan Colonel A. Sridharan (India) [email protected] Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:01:16 +0530 Friends, Bravery sees no barrier, especially the barrier of the borders, people, race, language, religion ,community etc.Bravery is the act done by brave men and women by putting their lives into danger, without any concern for personal safety and for the cause, which they believe in so much, that their life is a small price to pay. More importantly, if in the performance of that act of bravery, one has to make the supreme sacrifice by giving up his or her life, that person and his or her bravery must be honoured. His or her deed must be preserved in posterity, recorded with reverence to be read by generations to follow so that we not only appreciate their act but also emulate their spirit of bravery, which made them give up their life today for our tomorrow. Let us not bring in personal feelings when we speak about bravery. The brave act of a Pakistani soldier for his country is as significant and relevant as that of an Indian soldier for his country. A soldier does not question the wisdom of war or the reasons when countries go to war. He obeys orders for it is his duty (dharma) to obey and follow what his superiors ask of him. He does not start analyzing the reason for war, the atrocities committed before the war, which may have led to that war. He does not question the legitimacy or futility of going to war with another nation. He takes part in battles, because that is what is expected of him. And, when he does so, he acts bravely and his bravery and supreme sacrifice either with his life or with his limbs in performance of the duty for his country, must be acknowledged.That acknowledgment should not be confined to the borders of his country but should transcend universally. We are not here to judge if truth has been portrayed in the acts of bravery by the soldiers who have featured in the web site of Mr Nasir Khan. We are not here to judge if their act did or did not deserve the award bestowed on them by their country. The fact that he intends to put up the acts of bravery of Indian soldiers too, is indeed laudable. It would be a tribute to those brave men from India. Perhaps Mr Khan can also include the acts of bravery of the soldiers of Bangladesh? We are here to appreciate their acts of bravery and not bring in any personal animosity or get in to any arguement. I do not know the antecedents of Mr Khan. I would only request Mr Khan to please portray the acts of bravery by men from both sides of the border in true spirit and in correct perspective, without any cause for personal feelings or animosity. I would also request Mr Khan to confine himself to the declared wars fought by both our countries from 1947 to 1971 and not the wars which have not been declared as such, but being fought even today. I need not give my reason for this request for it is easy to guess. We need peace Mr Khan and, not continued war, even the undeclared kind or jehad until all of us get annihilated. If you can do that Mr Khan, you would do both our nations a favour by bridging the gap through the acts of these brave men who fought for our country and who made us proud and continue to do so. I will try and get you the acts of valour by Indian soldiers as I believe these are available in print. With best regards Sincerely Colonel (Retd) A Sridharan, VSM, India Respected Colonel Sridharan, Thank you for your support. It has been a tough time getting any Indian support for this initiatve. You yourself are a witness to that. Although the future looks bleak as far as Indian support is concerned, I think we can manage at least two or three more which should be more than enough for the time being I would only like to share with the other visitors that Colonel Sridharan is indeed a respectable man. His views can be seen by all in his letter. Believe me what he is saying is correct, and it really takes a great man to take this stance in collaboration with another person from across the border from a so called enemy country The Colonel has shared only a few of his views with me but there is no doubt in my mind that he is not only a great person, but also, must have been a brave soldier (he fought against Pakistan in the 1971 War, Eastern Theatre). The cause of this website was to promote acts of valor, as it was my stance from day one that these men should not be forgotten. Just as I would like to provide information for the Pakistanis about people that they can be proud of, I can provide information for the Indians about people that they can be proud of. My stance on this, which was becoming weak due to some initial reversals at Indian mailing lists, has now been fortified due to the Colonel's great words. I will provide the Indian accounts, even if it is only the Colonel who supports this initiative from the entire Indian region. I believe that it would be worthwhile. Nasir M. Khan Mubashir Inayet [email protected] Sun, 15 Apr 2001 10:08:39 -0700 (PDT) Br Nasir, ASA Truly a great website. Please keep it up. We love it. May Allah bless you in your efforts to promote feeling of positivity. Mubashir Dear Mubashir, Thank you for your support. Nasir M. Khan Taimur M. Khan [email protected] Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:16:58 -0000 Your site is wondeful!!!It provides a clear view of the wars of the past.It honors great men like Captain Karnal Sher Khan,who displayed unmatched courage in the Kargil war.He made hundreds of Indians run away and forced them to get out of their post.The Indians always launch massive propaganda and that helps them in all their wars. Had we been blessed with a strong leadership,we would have taken Kargil.But once again,our leadership failed us and we let our soldiers die in vain.Had our leadership shown more courage we would have honored the blood of our martyrs,instead,we do not know about their sacrifices.These people gave their lives for us,yet we cannot even give them the respect they deserve.We must remember such martyrs,for without them, our country would not be safe. Let us give our respect to all the soldiers of our army and to the thousands of unknown soldiers who gave their lives for us. Pakistan Zindabad!!!! sincerely Taimur M. Khan Dear Taimur, Thank you for your support. Nasir M. Khan Yaqub Ahsen [email protected] Fri, 20 Apr 2001 22:54:26 -0700 Excellent initiative Nasir. I share the feelings and the one most important thing we need to inculcate in "our hindu movies addicted children" is that their survival lies in following their own heroes, the men of valor, and not any low life khans from the hindu movies who probably have nothing to do with the name Khan but just use it to bring shame to the most respected Khans we have in our country. regards. Yaqub Dear Yaqub, Thank you for your support. It our responsiility to make sure that they do not forget their own heroes, the men who have died for their country. I have felt that it is only due to the lack of any matierial on their own heroes that they have turned elsewhere for inspiration. I do not think that there is any lack of interest, only a lack of information. I hope that the stories written herein have the impact that is desired. Personally, I do not have anything against Pakistani kids enjoying a bit of Indian enterntainment, unless they start forgetting their own history. However, I do not think the situation is so much out of control as yet. Nasir M. Khan Azam [email protected] Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:41:05 +0600 Dear Sir, I have visited your site and skimmed through its content. Its really a marvelous effort.Please keep it up.I wish I could contribute but I am not from military so don't have any first hand story to tell. Our men of valour must never be forgotten. I must say that there must be hundreds of them but we know only few of them. Great effort. regards. Azam Dear Azam, Thank you for your support. Yes, there must be hundreds of them, and I am sure that sometime in the future we will be able to boast hundreds of stories on the "Men of Valor" website Nasir M. Khan |