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Currently Chairman of a Group of 5 companies, Col (Retd) Riaz Jafri writes as a freelancer when he needs to get away and relax from work and business. Joining the 7th PMA Long Course in 1951 he was commissioned in the Corps of Signals in March 1953, taking voluntary premature retirement in 1977. During his Army career he was instructor in various Schools for 13 years, 2 I/C of a Scouts Battalion Frontier Corps, fought in the 1965 war at Lahore where he was cited for SJ and awarded Imtiazi Sanad, Platoon Commander and Company Commander PMA during 1965/1969, promoted to Lt Colonel in June 1969, GSI-Civil Affairs in Dacca June 1970, GSO-I as well as AQ in an Infantry Division in the Eastern Command and commanded a Signals Battalion in FWO before retiring. Was taken POW in 1971 and was one of the last to be repatriated from India in April 1973. Widely traveled, computers and photography are his main hobbies.
