POST MEETING REPORT
4th Monthly Meeting
20 Jul 2008

1.0. General.  This was another meeting with many firsts.  There were three new learned audience. At least two out of these will become the formal members. Secretary began the proceedings with warm welcome to all of them and requested them to introduce themselves. They were: -
 a. Lt Gen Ghulam Mustafa, retd
 b. Mr. Fawad Younus, GM Monitoring, Ministry of IT.
 c. Air Cdre Zafar Iqbal Mir. (He was late to join and early to leave; therefore there was no formal introduction.
 I thank you all for joining us once more.

1.1. The proceedings followed the program, except that Gen S H Zaidi due to unavoidable commitments could not attend. Gen Asad Durrani, Chairman TFP, was the learned speaker on the topic of the day.  We could not have a better scholar to deal with the subject.

1.2. As has been the practice for some months, Secretary presented the meanings of some verses from Holy Quran. There were a few other business of the Forum. It included a brief presentation on the Newsletter of TFP, and a brief to trustees on registration of TFP.

1.3. Invitation through Newspaper. Effort was in hand to promulgate our Monthly Meeting through the newspapers. It was published on 19th July in The News, Rawalpindi. A copy the relevant portion of the newspaper is enclosed. It will be my effort that it appears in greater number of newspapers next time. The Meeting will be followed by a Press Release as well.

2.0. What’s Happening? What to Do?  The topic focused on the geo-political, and security situation of Pakistan. Focus was on the situation at Western border, FATA and Swat area. The learned speaker presented a highly consolidated picture and then invited the audience for their questions and the views.

2.1. The salient points of the talk were as follows: -
a. Unconditional pledging and offering limitless support to Americans in the aftermath of 9/11.
 b. Capturing own people, handing them over and selling them. It was most      uncalled for and unparallel conduct by a government.
 c. Sending and deploying own troops against own people on the request of     Americans.
 d. Learned speaker categorized the trouble into three sub-categories by the source.

2.2. The debate on the issue was then opened for the discussion. There were many comments and a number of thought provoking questions. Same have been summarized below: -
a. Who is funding the whole resistance? It was foremost worry of Col Jafri. He also shared the views of Mian Gul Aurangzeb from Swat with the audience and expressed his view on the nature and conduct of the people of Swat Valley.
b. Who are the loser and who all would be the beneficiaries of this armed struggle.
c.  How serious is the situation? It was a rightful worry, expressed by Gen Sarfaraz. He was comparing it with that of 1971.
d. Mr. Ulfat asked the Chairman, if Iran could respond the Americans, keeping their national interests supreme, why could not we?
e. Gen Mustafa gave detailed comment, elaborating where all military strategy went wrong.
f. Mr. Tariq Abdul Majid, spoke at length to explain the role of Freemason. He focused on knowing the enemy before the possibility of defeating it.
g. Mr. SBM dwelt on the lack of justice in society. He feared that plague of trouble would spread to rest of the Country.

3.0. Newsletter. All the pages of Newsletter were displayed to the audience on the screen  through a slide show. A few black and white hard copies were also distributed amongst the  learned audience. The title page and the contents and the layout; all drew lots of  observations, comments and suggestions. However, there was little convergence and a lot  of divergence. Chairman helped to consolidate into following points: -
 a. Every Newsletter will have a permanent title. It will be ‘Food for Thought’.
 b. The smiley face logo will be removed.
 c. The Newsletter should carry some introduction about the Forum.

4.0. Registration of TFP.  Secretary apprised Chairman of the progress on registration of the forum. Chairman agreed that all the Trustees would go to Registrar Office to post their signatures as per law.

5.0. Articles by the Secretary.  One article tilted, ‘Thinking: Can you change the way?’ has been published by Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology in its Research Journal ‘The Dialogue’. Copy of the Journal, Vol II No. 4; is available in SBM Library. An article on the subject of ‘What is Happening What to do?’ is enclosed. It has been sent to one of the English daily. 

6.0. Accounts
 a. The Balance shown in the Bank Statement furnished with the last Monthly Report    was Rs 22,822.00.
 b. Following table shows the subs received for Year 2008.
Ser# Names Annual Subs Newsletter Subs Total
1. Gen S H Zaidi 1,500.00 1,000.00 2,500.00
2. Brig Kaukab Aziz Bhatti 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,000.00
3. Brig Muhammad Akhtar Khan 2,000.00 1,000.00 3,000.00
4. Brig Noor-ud-Din  1,000.00 1,000.00 2,000.00
5. Mr. M A Tahir 1,000.00 ---- 1,000.00
6. Col Riaz Jafri 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,000.00
7. Col. Mohammad Yunus 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,000.00
8. Col Riaz Qureshi 1,000.00 1,000.00 2,000.00
9. Col. Abdullah Siddique 1,000.00 ---- 2,000.00
10. Col Bakhtiar Hakeem 1,400.00 1,000.00 2,400.00

 c. Routine monthly statement is enclosed.