Major General Afsir Karim, was an

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general and military scholar who has authored several books on strategic affairs & military studies. He was a graduate of the Defense Services Staff College, Wellington and the National Defence College.

Army career

General Karim was commissioned in the Indian Army in June 1954. He was a veteran of the

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1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...

and 1971 wars; he commanded a Para Battalion during the 1971 India-Pakistan War in the Eastern theatre. In 1978, he assumed command of an infantry brigade in Kashmir on the

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. In May 1984, he took over command of an infantry division under India's Southern Army Command, and was promoted to major general on 16 September. A specialist of issues related to terrorism, he has authored a number of books - ''Sri Lanka Crisis'' (co-author 1990); ''Counter-Terrorism: The Pakistan Factor'' (1991); ''Transnational Terrorism: Danger in the South'' (1995); ''Story of the Airborne Forces'' (1995) and ''Kashmir: The Troubled Frontiers'' (1994).He was also the founder-editor of AAKROSH, a journal on terrorism and internal conflicts and a former editor of the premier Indian defense publication '' Indian Defense Review''. He was a life trustee of the Forum for Strategic & Security Studies. Karim has written extensively on Kashmir and he authored ''Op-Topac'', the semi-fictional account of Pakistan's game plan for Kashmir. In 2007 he wrote ''An analysis of the turmoil in Jammu and Kashmir''. He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board (1999–2001), and was awarded the

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for distinguished service of an exceptional order by the

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for his military service. He retired from the Indian Army on 31 May 1989 and died on 12 February 2019 after a struggle with cancer.

References

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* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070928181219/http://www.himalayanaffairs.org/upload/interview-lo2.mp3 Audio interview on recent Indo-Pak peace movesbr>Lessons from the Indo-Pak war of 1965Interview detailing the various aspects of the J&K dispute
* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20040410024926/http://bharat-rakshak.com/BOOKS/show_book.php?isbn=1+897829+06+X The Indian Armed Forces - a Basic Guide by Gen.Karimbr>Article from Defense News seeking comments on the Indo-Pak ceasefire in the Siachen Glacier
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