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Sun at 6:33pm To the man who who taught me to walk , read , write , swim ......... i love you To the man who played , laughed and joked with me .... i love you To the man who taught me how to stick out my tongue , rub noses like eskimos..... i loveyou To the man who promised to throw mom out of the house if she ever beat me :P ...i love you To the man who showed me the stars and told me stories ....... i love you To the man i swam , waterskied , hiked, jumped,rode roller coasters with ....i love you To the man i ran to when ever trouble came near me ....... i love you To the man who told me to behave like a soldier...when i whined in amc.... i love you To the man who had my car painted when i banged it without my mum ever knowing about it ..... i love you To the man who brought me all those funny , weird presents without knowing what to get a girl.. i loveyou To the man who promised to be there for me whenever , where ever i needed him ........ i love you To the man who i counted on , ...

The daughter of late SSG commando, Maj-Gen (retd) Amir Faisal Alavi, who is in the US, has sent a letter on her memories of her father. She writes: "I vaguely remember asking my dad when I was five, how old was your dad when he passed away, papa? I remember my dad's surprised look and laughingly, he said, 61, why?, Ooo, I said, You have a long way to go. I was wrong, so wrong.You went much earlier, papa. "Born a British national in Kenya, Alavi came to study at Abbottabad Public School, but later his love and zeal for the military prompted him to renounce his British nationality. He wrote to Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, asking him to grant him Pakistani nationality so he could join the Army and that is exactly what happened, he got his wish. "My earliest memories are of my dad splendid in his uniform, no nonsense formidable soldier attitude and at the same time he was an easygoing person, very humble, compassionate, but very fearless. He just loved flirting with danger, it w...