* Who're the two generals who killed V.S. Naipaul's brother-in-law Gen. Faisal Alvi?
* Why British journalist Carey Schofield is hiding names of the accused generals?
By Habib R. Sulemani
A criminal gang of serving generals of the Pakistan Army first humiliated and then allegedly killed a fellow general who wanted to expose the gang’s involvement in terrorism—secret deals with the Taliban.
The assassinated officer, Major-General Ameer Faisal Alvi (1954-2008) is said to be a unique general of the Pakistan Army who considered himself a professional soldier not a power-broker.
General Faisal Alvi was the brother-in-law of British writer Sir V. S. Naipaul who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Lady Nadira Naipaul, sister of General Alvi, was a glamorous journalist in Pakistan. Her column,Letter from Bahawalpur, used to appear in a daily English language newspaper of Lahore. However, she left the profession and country after her marriage to the Trinidad-born British writer in 1996.
General Faisal Alvi was a former chief of the Special Services Group (commonly known as SSG or commandos). He had joined the Pakistan Army in 1974 and was forcefully retired in 2005.
* Why British journalist Carey Schofield is hiding names of the accused generals?
By Habib R. Sulemani
A criminal gang of serving generals of the Pakistan Army first humiliated and then allegedly killed a fellow general who wanted to expose the gang’s involvement in terrorism—secret deals with the Taliban.
The assassinated officer, Major-General Ameer Faisal Alvi (1954-2008) is said to be a unique general of the Pakistan Army who considered himself a professional soldier not a power-broker.
General Faisal Alvi was the brother-in-law of British writer Sir V. S. Naipaul who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Lady Nadira Naipaul, sister of General Alvi, was a glamorous journalist in Pakistan. Her column,Letter from Bahawalpur, used to appear in a daily English language newspaper of Lahore. However, she left the profession and country after her marriage to the Trinidad-born British writer in 1996.
General Faisal Alvi was a former chief of the Special Services Group (commonly known as SSG or commandos). He had joined the Pakistan Army in 1974 and was forcefully retired in 2005.
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It's said that General Kayani mysteriously kept silent as Dawn newspaperdubs him the silent soldier. When General Alvi didn't get any response from the Army Chief (General Kayani has not responded to my letter either for the last 15 months), he smelt threat to his life and gave a copy of the letter to a British journalist, Carey Schofield.
"It hasn’t worked, they’ll shoot me," General Alvi reportedly told Ms. Schofield.
"It hasn’t worked, they’ll shoot me," General Alvi reportedly told Ms. Schofield.
The Pakistani General obviously trusted a British journalist than a local scribe in the militarized and Talibanized media of Pakistan. But General Alvi didn’t know that the self-styled independent journalist/writer (Ms. Schofield) would breach his trust—was it for the big bucks? Let's discuss it later.
Anyway, on November 19, 2008, General Alivi along with his driver was shot dead in Rawalpindi. In a typical action, the authorities immediately blamed the Taliban and al-Qaeda for the assassination, and picked some former military-officials-turned-militants according to the written script—but later they were set free for “lack of evidence" as it happened in the assassination case of Minority Minister Shahbaz Bhatti recently.
The British government just paid lip service! Unfortunately, the literary circles, especially in the West, didn't take notice of this gruesome murder of a relative of a Nobel Laureate. May be thinking: a bloody civilian has no right to meddle in the affairs of a militarized Islamic country—it's the Murder of a General by Generals (I’ve no plans to write a novel with this title currently. Fromsolitary confinement, I can write blogs only).