One thing should be clear to all, no one in Pakistan is against the Army, criticism and frustration is about many disastrous policies of each army chief.
Making Taliban, then after thought of good/bad Taliban, supporting Taliban for quarter of a century, then war with Taliban to undo the time, money, blood that was invested, any patriot, if he is patriot to the country and to millions of sacrifices for the foundation of this country should demand ONE THING WITH ONE VOICE, MILITARY SHOULD STOP PLAYING LEGISLATURE, EXECUTIVE, JUDICIARY, PRESS, MOLVI, MUFTI, ECONOMIST, WIZARD, and, MILITARY, at the same time.
For too long Pakistan is doing more of the same with reverse journey, It is not even possible how many groups Army created, supported, then eliminated.
Although, this post should warrant it's own thread, but that thread may be quashed.
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We Pakistanis are responsible for this, we are complicit in it.
dont read any further below is just a rant.
this didnt happen out of the blue, the army represent the people
the same people who have been offering their children to all sectarian terrorists and then regional and global terrorists, those that offered funeral prayers for Osma Bin Laden and consider Daesh and Afghan rule as pious and divine . and then there are people who were opposed to that takfiri mentality and became targets.
recall re mosques Jihadi wives? who saw this as an honor to be accepted as wives of the jihadis in Iraq and Syria.
the military pesonnel come from this same pool of people, they dont come out of Japan or Uganda.
re Afghanistan/ Taliban or whatever the choice has been between shit and shit and how to prevent the splashes to ourselves. Saudis, British and Americans are safely thousands of miles away and safe from the shit splashes but sadly we are not.
you all people make it sound like the different leaderships of the establishment made these policies out of the thin air, but in fact they reflected our mentality as well. at one point Osama had more favorable ratings than the ruling government. our own people from KP have a sizeable population who agree with Afghan claim over Pakistan up to some cities like Attock.
the military and civil establishment plays its part in everything you listed because the entire Poltical elite class including Mr 804 are self serving hypocrites, in order to gain power they make deals. they have no concept of democracy or merit in their own parties and they project it to all other institutions, the military establishment and its security agencies exploit this weakness and are going no where as long as us people dont make changes in ourselves.
we, in our own domain and scope consider ourselves above law and want others to do what we say but not what we do. whoever can get away with cheating and deceiving others does it bei it electrician , owner of a fuel station, milk seller shop keeper, cleric, judge , lawyer doctor, banker , teacher, hotel owner. and within families members of family dont give rights to their sisters and strong ones usurp the rights of weak and orphans who have no respite.
military will never change its ways unless our children (who will be applying for commission one day) don't see ourselves setting a good example. and our political principles (don't mean getting to power at whatever cost) are not based on vengeance ,self praise and worship.
I wrote this few times before. while we are picking on each other... there are people among us who are currently sheltering TTP terrorists in their homes and are on the look out for them. they are not doing this on behalf of establishment but doing it because they agree with Takfiri khawarij ideology.
do you know almost all the members of SSG who took part in the Red mosque operation met a violent end? some of them were gunned down later on by fellow soldiers who had converted to takfiri ideology? there were army , navy and airforce personnel who defected and went to Afghanistan yea? they came with that takfiri seed well before putting on the uniform.
Establishment has no incentive to chance its course, re their interference because they are always faced with greedy politicians. if PTI's favorite horse had won the COAS race then it would've been Noon league cursing the army right now and shedding tears for Taliban.
point is that for establishment, there is no serious and honest unbreakable and clean opposition faced from the politicians. it has a file to exploit each and everyone of them. re Imran khan such blackmail doesn't work because every sexual or corruption blame on Imran is deflected so he is being kept behind bars grudgingly and even if there is some chance of reproachment, some elements within PTI sabotage it through their words and actions on social media and streets.
continuing with charge sheet on establishment, its latest monster in the shape of TLP is going to become a tumor soon once these bunch of foul mouth thugs replace sticks and stones with RPG and assault rifles. also Red mosque, its Burqa molvi is allowed to operate and mock the state. which goes to show that establishment either doesn't care or has some elements within it that support him and those that don't are either indifferent and spending their energy in countering their former favorite "ladla" (as noon and PPP used to call Imran Khan).
yea , things dont look very nice.