BTTN
Maj Gen Agha Masood Akram (R), DG Army Institute of Military History (AIMH) Rawalpindi, visited Balochistan Think Tank Network (BTTN) on August 17, 2023. He was received by Head of BTTN Brig Agha Ahmad Gul (R) and Dr. Zafar Khan, Executive Director BTTN.
In his welcome remarks, Brig Gul (R) introduced Maj Gen Agha Masood (R) with the Faculty of Research and the workplace. Executive Director, Dr. Zafar Khan briefed on BTTN`s progress, aims, objectives and achievements. He provided a detailed account of BTTN’s organizational structure and framework of research.
He pointed that BTTN is currently focusing on strategic, political, economic, and most specifically the socio-economic issues of Balochistan. BTTN has produced numerous research articles, policy papers and a considerable number of opinion articles on contemporary issues.
Maj Gen Agha Masood (R) lauded the efforts of the institute in promoting the culture of research in the province which, according to him, is a crucial step in informing and empowering the people of the region and is a dire need of hour.
Maj Gen Masood (R) appreciated the efforts and the achievements of BTTN attained in such a short time and expressed his best wishes for the progress of BTTN and Balochistan. During interactive session, he introduced AIMH, its vision and scope while defining it not to be precisely a Think Tank but a cousin to it.
He said that the mission of AIMH is to record, preserve and promote the military history of Pakistan and the history of the Pakistan Army, act as a center of excellence for the study of military history, and provide a forum for open-source intellectual input to the Pakistan Army on contemporary affairs, through two-way interaction with civil society.
He expressed his wish for BTTN’s Faculty of Research to visit AIMH. At the end, with the exchange of souvenirs, Brig Gul (R) presented Maj Gen Agha Masood (R) with the major publications and booklets produced by BTTN in the last two years.
