Nishan-e-Haider, Major Tufail & Capt. Sarwar (Shaheed) (2000-9)

I.Captain Muhammad Sarwar (Shaheed) Nishan-e-Haider

Born in Lyallpur (Faisalabad) in 1910 in a family from Sanghori, District Rawalpindi, Captain Sarwar was commissioned to the Punjab Regiment in 1944. While serving as Company Commander in the 2nd Battalion of the Punjab Regiment during the Kashmir Operations he launched an attack on July 27,1948, against a strongly fortified enemy position in the Un Sector. When his company was within fifty yards of the enemy, it came under heavy machinegun, grenade and mortar fire, causing heavy casualties and frustrating their advance. Displaying remarkable courage and leadership, Captain Sarwar led a platoon in a flanking movement to within twenty yards of the enemy bunkers. Here he was obstructed by barbed wire. Undaunted by the obstacle, he moved the rest of the company forward, silencing the enemy machine guns with grenades. Undeterred by volley after volley of enemy bullets, although he had already been hit in the right shoulder, he took over a Bren gun of his platoon, after its gunman was killed, and continued firing into the enemy concentration. He then moved forward with six of his men to cut the barbed wire when a burst of automatic fire riddled his chest and he fell. Captain Sarwar thus became the first soldier to be awarded Pakistan\'s highest gallantry award of Nishan-e-Haider.

II.Major Tufail Muhammad (Shaheed), Nishan-e-Haider

Born in Hoshiarpur in 1914, Major Tufail Muhammad was commissioned in 1943 into the 16 Punjab Regiment. After a distinguished career, which included several instructional and command appointments in his own Battalion and also in the Civil Armed Forces, he was posted to the East Pakistan Rifles in 1958 as a Company Commander.

Early in August, 1958, he was assigned the task of clearing some Indian troops entrenched in Lakshmipur area. He executed a faultless night march in the small hours of August 7 and encircled the Indian post. Leading his men to about 15 yards of the enemy, he led the assault party from the rear. When the Indians opened machine gun fire, Major Tufail was the first to be hit. Bleeding profusely, he lobbed a grenade and silenced the machine-gun. With the flame of his life gradually fading away, he continued to direct the operation. When another enemy machine-gun opened fire, killing his second in command, Major Tufail destroyed that gun too with a well-aimed grenade. During the hand-to-hand encounter that followed, he noticed the commander of the Indian post moving stealthily to attack one of his men. Though mortally wounded, Major Tufail crawled towards the enemy commander. He stretched out one of his legs and as the enemy stumbled he hit him in the face with his steel helmet, saving his comrade. He continued to lead his troops till the Indians were driven out leaving four of their dead and three prisoners behind. Major Tufail later succumbed to his wounds the same day.

To commemorate the auspicious occasion (Defence Day of Pakistan) Pakistan Post is issuing a set of two commemorative postage stamps of Rs 5/- denomination each on September 6, 2000, on Captain Muhammad Sarwar (Shaheed) and Major Tufail Muhammad (Shaheed).

Sarfaroshaane Tehreeke Pakistan. (2000-8)

 

The first brick in the foundation of Pakistan was laid in 712 A D when Mohammad Bin Qasim anchored at Debal Port (now known as Karachi) freed the Muslim women and children from the prisons of Raja Dahir and constructed the first mosque at the town. Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad All Jinnah, the Founder of Pakistan, acclaimed the event - \'the Pakistan Movement started when the first Muslim put his foot on the soil of Sindh, the Gateway of Islam in India.\"

Pakistan Movement is synonymous with the very spirit of Islam. The War of Independence in 1857 was an open manifestation of the Muslim spirit of revolt against the domination of the British Government and its stooges in India. Frustration and lack of direction, however, pervaded the rank of Muslims after the unfortunate failure in the War. At this critical juncture emerged Sir Syed Ahmad Khan who served as a beacon light for the Muslim Nation in distress and disarray. He equated education with power and declared that the muslims could improve their political, social and economic condition only through the medium of modern and scientific education. He cultivated the concept of a separate Muslim Nation on the basis of religion, culture and history. He inspired the muslims of the subcontinent to demand a separate homeland where they could arrange their lives and affairs of the State according to the dictates of Holy Quran and Sunnah.

After the establishment of the Indian National Congress in 1885, the Muslim leaders saw through the game of \"National\" movement and warned their people of the hovering dangers. In 1906, the Muslim League was founded as a challenge to the Indian National Congress, Maulana Hasrat.Mohani presented a plan to the Government for the country envisaging ~- two separate states for the Hindus and Muslims, Chaudhary Rehmat Ali further developed this concept. He displayed great wisdom and foresight by pulling forth not only a name but in large measure the scheme that culminated in the creation of Pakistan. Maulana Mohammed Ali, Maulana Shaukat All and Maulana Zafar Ali Khan spread the message of Pakistan through their lucid lectures and articles in newspapers.

The most outstanding contribution, however, came from Dr Sir Mohammad lqbal, the great philosopher and poet and the symbol of muslim nationalism. Pakistan ideology found ever clearer expression in his religion-philosophical didactic and poetic works. At its base was the idea that spiritual unit founded on Islam was the most vital and integral element of national society. Islam emerges in this ideology as a form of National unity and absorbs all political thoughts. While presiding over the Session of the All India Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930. Dr. Iqbal\'s Address represented the first clarion call for the establishment of an independent Islamic State in the Subcontinent.

From 1937 onwards, Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah became identified in the muslim mind with the concept of the charismatic community, the concept which answered their psychic need for endowing and sanctifying their sense of community with a sense of power.. Increasingly did he become, with the passage of time, the embodiment of Muslim national consensus. And this explains why and how muslims acknowledged him as their Quaid-e-Azam\' even before the launching of the Pakistan demand in March, 1940. From now on events moved fast. Due to the persistent intransigence of the Indian National Congress. the Muslims were let with no alternative but to demand the partition of the Subcontinent through the famous Resolution of 23rd March, 1940. It declared that no constitutional plan would be workable in the country or acceptable to the muslims unless it was designed on the basic principle that geographically contiguous units were demarcated into regions in a manner that the areas in which the muslims were numerically in a majority were grouped together to constitute an independent state.

After a hard and heroic struggle by the Muslims of the Subcontinent, the British Parliament was forced to approve the Indian Independence Act, 1947 leading to the birth of Pakistan on 14th August, 1947. On this historic day the Quaid-e-Azam, while addressing the first session of Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in Karachi culogised the services and sacrifices of the Muslims of the Subcontinent to achieve Pakistan, in the following words:-\'My thoughts are with the valiant fighters in our cause who readily scarified all they had, including their lives, to make Pakistan Possible.\"

Thus the response of the millions, sacrificing their lives and homes, to the call of \"UNITY, FAITH and DISCIPLINE\" from their Quaid-e-Azam firmly placed Pakistan on the world map. Quaid-e-Azam was a great man and a great muslim. He vehemently advocated morality In politics. He declared that morality in politics was even more important than in private life \"because if you do something wrong in public you hurt and harm more people\".

Let us endeavour to achieve the objective laid down by the Quaid in his broadcast to the Nation on 30th October, 1947.

\"Now is the time, chance and opportunity for eve,),\' Mussalman to make his or her fullest and best contribution and make the greatest sacrifice and work ceaselessly in the service of our Nation and world.\"

In the memory of the Sarfaroshaane Tehreeke Pakistan, Pakistan Post Office is issuing a set of Four commemorative postage stamps of Rs. 5/-denomination each on August 14, 2000.

Ahmed E. H. Jaffer Commemoration. (2000-7)

JAFFER, Ahmed Ebrahim Haroon, worthy son of a leading business tycoon, the Hon’able Sir Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer Mr. Ahmed Jaffer was born in Poona (India) on 9th August, 1909 and he breathed his last at Islamabad on 3rd February, 1990 while in the service of Pakistan. Almost all his life, he had been travelling extensively all over the world making friends among elite of every county he visited.

Mr. Jaffer was educated at the Anglo-Urdu High School, Poona and later at the Deccan College, Poona. His high calibre can be gauged from the fact that at the young age of 25 he was first elected a member of the Indian Parliament (Indian Central Legislative Assembly) in Delhi in 1934 from Bombay Province which had two Muslim seats. One seat was occupied by Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the other by Mr. Ahmed Jaffer which provided him a rare and unique opportunity to work in close association with the Quaid. He was reelected to the Indian Parliament in 1945 and was appointed Deputy Whip of the Muslim League Parliamentary Party of which Quaid-e-Azam was the leader and continued until the establishment of Pakistan on August 14,1947.

Mr. Ahmed Ebrahim Haroon Jaffer (popularly known as Ahmed E. H. Jaffer), S.Pk., C.B.E., a close associate of Quaid-e-Azam, was a leading citizen, businessman and a distinguished parliamentarian with long standing. He was a seasoned leader of exceptional qualities in politics, trade, industry, sports, culture, national and international affairs. Immediately after partition of the subcontinent, Mr. Ahmed Jaffer, migrated to Pakistan in August 1947 and settled down in Karachi. He was elected to the first Constituent Assembly of Pakistan tO represent one million refugees who had migrated to Pakistan and settled down in Sindh Province where he served till 1954 when the Assembly was dissolved.

In September 1948, Mr. Ahmed Jaffer was elected Member of the Council of World Movement for one World Government and a Member of the International Steering Committee of the People\'s World Government Conference. An active Rotarian, he was elected President of Karachi Rotary Club in 1951 for a two-year term. He was the founder President of Sindh Karachi Refugee Board and All Pakistan Mohajir Board. He established the first ever well planned refugee colony at Gizri near Clifton in Karachi which provided shelter to thousands of homeless Muslim migrants. He was appointed Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Refugee Rehabilitation, during the course of the Conference of lndo-Pakistan Prime Ministers, held in Karachi in 1953. He led Pakistan Contingent to the World Olympic Games, London in 1948 and the next year he was elected Life Member of International Olympic Committee.

Mr. Ahmed Jaffer was a Member of the first Pakistan Trade Delegation to West Germany and Czechoslovakia in 1949. He was a delegate to the Inter-Parliamentary Union Conferences held in Dublin (1950); Berne (Switzerland in 1952) and Vienna (Austria 1953). He was a Leader of Pakistan Parliamentary Delegation to World Government Parliamentary Conference held in London in 1954 and delegate to the United Nations in 1975. He was a keen philatelist who had a rich collection of postage

stamps from all over the world. He collected rare stamps from several countries in exchange of Pakistan postage stamps as he was a member of Philatelic Associations in various countries. Thus Mr. Ahmed Jaffer introduced Pakistan postage stamps the world over bringing name and fame to his country.

Mr. Jaffer was awarded high decorations by the President of Austria, His Majesty King of Belgium, President of Brazil, Her Majesty Queen of England, President of Finland, President of Italy, His Majesty King of Jordan, His Highness the Amir of Kuwait, President of the Republic of Spain and President of Pakistan, for his contribution towards development of trade and cordial relations.

Courtesy: - Abdul Kadir Jaffer

To commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Ahmed E.H. Jaffer Pakistan Post Office is issuing a commemorative postage stamp of Rs. 10/- denomination on August 9, 2000.

Fifty Years of Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan. (2000-6)

 

The Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan was established in 1951 by (Late) Muhammad Shoaib, who himself was Cost & Works Accountant from UK and founder of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants, India. He envisioned a powerful contributory role for Cost and Management Accountancy in the growth of national economy, which the members of this Institute have played credibly. Mr. Shoaib later rose to become the Finance Minister of Pakistan. The Institute was granted statutory status in 1966 under the Cost and Management Accountants Act, 1966. It has maintained high standard, both in imparting education and testing and has been meeting an important national human resource need through a steady flow of professional management accountants in the economy. Continuous improvement in its programs is an important part of its philosophy. The objective is to produce high caliber business managers by equipping them with specialized skills of management accountancy to meet emerging challenges of an increasingly competitive and demanding business world.

MISSION STATEMENT

To promote efficiency and effectiveness by providing competent and high caliber professionals in the area of Management Accountancy.

MEMBERS AND STUDENTS OF THE INSTITUTE

ICMAP has over 1,600 members, who hold senior positions in trade, commerce, industry and government. A good number of them are employed abroad, viz, Middle East, UK, Australia, USA, Canada, etc. The number of registered students is over 25,000 which makes ICMAP one of the largest professional institutions in Pakistan.

INTERNATIONAL AFFILIATIONS

The Institute is member of the following International Accounting bodies:

a)International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)

b)International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)

c)Confederations of Asian Pacific Accountants (CAPA)

d)South Asian Federation of Accountants (SAFA)

PUBLICATION

The ICMAP takes out bi-monthly journal \"Management Accountant\" which is one of the leading professional journals in Pakistan having circulation of over 10,000. A Research newsletter is also issued every month.

EMERGING AVENUES OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT

The new millennium is of Management Accountants. The prominent accounting bodies of the world agree on the point that bookkeeping and taxation services are now withering away and accountants, for their survival and growth, will have to become business managers:

communicative and productive users of information technology. ICMAP has already planned to prepare its students on these lines. In the United Kingdom, 58% of accounting jobs are filled by management accountants and ICMAP also plans to follow.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Members of the Institute who are known as Management Accountants offer quality services in the following areas:

a)Management Accounting

b)Cost Audit

c)Financial Audit d)Sales Tax Audit/Advisory Services

e)Certification under Prudential Regulations

f)Corporate Advisor

g)Management Consultancy

h)Withholding Tax Audit

i)Other Services

ASSISTANCE TO GOVERNMENT

The Institute is represented on the advisory Council of the Finance Division of the Government of Pakistan. It provides opinion on matters of financial policy to the Government from time to time on request. The Institute has been assisting Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan for a long time in the task of introduction of Cost Accounting Records/Audit for manufacturing industries under the Companies Ordinance 1984.

GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

Year 2000-2001 is the Golden Jubilee Year of the Institute. It will hold a number of Seminars and Conferences during this span of time to give an educational touch to the celebrations. To recognize the meritorious service of the members, teachers and employees of the Institute, who contributed in a significant manner in furthering the cause of the Institute, befitting awards will be given to them.

To celebrate the Golden Jubilee of the Institution Pakistan Post Office is issuing a set of 2 commemorative Postage Stamps of Rs. 2/- and Rs.15/- denomination on June 23, 2000.

Birth Anniversary of Mahomedali Habib. (2000-5)

 

Mahomedali Habib born on 15th May 1904 in Bombay, the third son of Habib Ismail was endowed with exceptional qualities of leadership and tremendous vision and foresight. He was destined to play the most important role in establishing the \"House of Habib\". He founded \"Habib Bank Ltd.\" in August 1941 (with the full support of his brothers particularly Dawood Habib). Habib Bank, the flagship of the House of Habib formalized the Habib Group\'s Merchant Banking activities (since 1841).

To pay a tribute to the memory of his much-loved father, Mahomedali Habib named the Bank after him. Habib Bank soon became the largest and the most important Bank of Pakistan.

Mahomedali Habib, in an amazingly short period of time, created a family business empire covering banking, insurance, shipping and many other industries. The Group companies were market leaders in everything they did and employed more than 7,000 people.

Mahomedali Habib was not only Advisor to Quaid-e-Azam, but was also one of the leading figures of the Pakistan movement. Of the numerous meritorious services of Mahomedali Habib to the nation, he is best remembered for the Blank Cheque that he presented to the Quaid-e-Azam to meet the newly established state\'s financial obligations in the wake of partition, when Pakistan\'s Treasury was empty. The Indian Government had willfully not transferred the funds of Pakistan from the Exchequer of undivided India, which had created a crisis situation averted by the timely assistance from Mahomedali Habib. The loan thus given, in hundreds of millions of rupees to the Government of Pakistan was interest-free.

He was an Architect, Builder, Patriot, Philanthropist, Champion of the poor, a devout Muslim and a true believer in God. He compiled a translation of Holy Quran with footnotes and other religious literatures, which he published under his pen-name M.H. Shakir. His deep concern for the welfare of the poor led him to establish more than 20 Benevolent Trusts for Education, Medical relief, Hospitals, Housing for the poor, Orphanages, Mosques, food, clothing etc. and even Burial Grounds.

Mahomedali Habib was a family man, a loving husband and a very caring father. He had the ability to make every member of the Habib family feel special and created time for everyone. A remarkable motivator of people, he was very successful in training the young generation of Habibs to accept the challenges of the future and commanded a level of loyalty and respect that has become a hallmark. A keen sportsman, his motto was \"work hard, pray hard, and play hard\".

Mahomedali Habib, a legend of a man, died peacefully on 30th March 1959, at the age of 55 years.

Courtesy: House of Habib

To commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Philanthropist of Pakistan Mahomedali Habib, Pakistan Post Office is issuing a commemorative postage stamp of Rs. 2/-denomination on May 15, 2000.