Gen (also called Gɛ̃, Gɛn gbe, Gebe, Guin, Mina, Mina-Gen, and Popo) is a Gbe language spoken in the southeast of Togo in the Maritime Region. It is also spoken in the Mono Department of Benin. It is part of the Volta–Niger branch of the major African Niger–Congo language family. Like the other Gbe languages, Gen is a tonal language.

According to SIL/Ethnologue, there are 200,000 Gen-speakers in Togo in 1991, and 130,000 in Benin in 2006.

References[link]

• Kangni, Atah-Ekoué (1989) La syntaxe du Gẽ: étude syntaxique d'un parler Gbe: le Gẽ du Sud-Togo. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

External links[link]

• Map of Gen language area from the LL-Map Project
• Information about Gen language from the MultiTree Project
• Gen on Ethnologue.com

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Rashid Qureshi
Birth name	Rashid Qureshi
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Army
Years of service	1971–2003
Rank	Major-General
Commands held	DG Inter Services Public Relations
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Siachen conflict Kargil War 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff
Awards	Sitara-i-Imtiaz (military) Sitara-e-Basalat
Other work	Presidential Spokesperson

Major General Rashid Qureshi, SI(M), SBt, is a retired two-star general, and the close aide of former President General Pervez Musharraf. He is the current spokesman of Musharraf's All Pakistan Muslim League.^[1]

Military career[link]

Qureshi was given commissioned in the Pakistan Army on 17 April 1971 in the 44th PMA Long Course.^[2] During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he was stationed at the Lahore Sector. After the war, Qureshi's company was stationed at the Rawalpindi sector where he became a staff officer at the General Headquarters (GHQ). In 1987, he was promoted as Lieutenant Colonel, and was made Officer commanding of the 10th Battalion. In 1991, he became Colonel in the Army, and was made Military secretary at the Joint Chief of Staff Committee Secretariat.

Inter-Services Public Relations[link]

In 1996, Qureshi joined the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). In 1997, he was promoted as one-star general (brigadier-general) in the Army. In 1998, he was made director-general of the ISPR.^[3] His tenure saw many mile-stone in the history of Pakistan. On May 1998, Pakistan tested its fissionable devices at Ras Koh Hills, codenamed Chagai-I, and Chagai-II respectively.

He was also a principle military spokesperson of General Pervez Musharraf regime. His term as DG ISPR saw the Kargil War, Atlantique Incident, and the 2001–2002 India–Pakistan standoff. He came into public limelight when he first held a public conference on August 1999, where he briefed the media on Pakistan version of Atlantique Incident of 1999.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interview with Pakistan's Maj. Gen. Rashid Qureshi
• Pakistan Says India Tensions Peaking Again After Soldier's Death

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Syed Zaiduzzaman Hamid, better known as Zaid Hamid, is a Pakistani security consultant and political commentator.^[1][2] His byline in newspaper articles has been Zaid Zaman.^[2]

Early life and education[link]

Zaid was born in Karachi, in 1964. His father, Col. Zaman Hamid (Retd), served in the Pakistan Army. Zaid spent his early life in Karachi. He received a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Systems Engineering from NED University, Karachi in 1980's.^[3]

Political views[link]

Through his TV programmes, Hamid has claimed that a nexus between India's RAW, the CIA and is responsible for the destabilization of Pakistan. He also claims that the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, were part of a plan hatched by "Hindu Zionists"", and that it was an attempt by the Indians to stage an attack just like the Americans executed the September 11 attacks.^[1][2][4][3]

Criticism[link]

A number of noted Pakistani journalists, writers and Islamic scholars^[5] have criticized Hamid and have described his views on politics and security as conspiracy theories.^[6][7][8][9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• BrassTacks website
• Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid