There's no issue with the army being involved different sectors but there's an issue when it does so incompetently and we don't see satisfactory results.
The whole anger right now is about their pseudo-God Imran Khan, before that no one had a problem with army involvement.
But honestly there needs to be a structural overhaul, stricter vetting process, and much higher quality educational institutions because the current crop clearly is not doing a good enough job.
The thing is, it hasn't even gone from strength to strength, it's recording losses and imposing a harmful market monopoly that prevents competition and innovation... completely preventing any meaningful growth.
Army should be called when required, but here the best equipment, best trained resources, and leadership skills lie within army. A civilian counterpart is non existent, not even a political party or a department that can stand on its own and overshadow army in various disciplines.
It’s not the guns or the tanks which make army the strongest entity, there is no martial law so no use of human resource even when there is plenty within army, then what is it ? If it’s the intelligence setup then civilian intel setup is also there and it’s very active.
Imran khan is just another hypocrite our system has produced. He knew he was brought in by rigging but he remained quiet on the issue and kept praising army and Bajwa throughout his tenure. The day he lost power, he started speaking against to what he was party to before - in bed with Army. And that’s where the problem lies. The man that Pakistani public considers honest is actually a hypocrite.
Structural overhaul ? You need a public mentality overhaul. An education system overhaul. A cultural overhaul. The upbringing of kids is an important factor in our educational system. These kids will then join government, military, banking, civil services, politics etc but unless the kids go through a certain level of transformation and then stand up to bring those changes into the system wherever they are serving, the system will never change. Don’t expect 40, 50, 60 years old to abandon their ways and thinking.
But then those who want to change something in their lives, they take steps for that, they don’t whinge online on forums and take out frustrations. They make their lives meaningful through practical steps. Change is never easy.
Look at different departments in Pakistan. PIA, railways, wapda, post office etc. The military has a counterpart to all these using resources like railways or a dedicated system of its own. Let’s talk about railways which is a failing services industry, but when military needs, they plan out routes, number of bogeys, timings, cargo loading of equipment themselves and use the railway lines. Similarly, communications like NTC or SCO. For road convoys and logistics, military uses NLC, for heavy or road construction it’s FWO. Even then military had own S&T units of hundreds of trucks and own engineer units having more specialised equipment than FWO.
Military thinks it looks after the country and saves the country from internal and external threats while politicians are considered unpatriotic and corrupt. The politicians think otherwise of the military in terms of perks and facilities. The bureaucracy thinks they handle all the affairs of the country and have to survive in between the tussle of army and political parties. The judiciary thinks it should govern everything on basis of laws but even a common man doesn’t want to obey law in Pakistan.
It’s the corruption of civilian sector that military stands so strong today and yes military cannot handle everything in Pakistan even if it tries to since there’s so much military can do. At the end of the day, if Pakistan collapses, which actually it won’t, it will be military which be the last straw holding it together.
Today if military fails, Pakistan will break into pieces. No government, no other department can hold Pakistan together. On top of that this nuclear capability is becoming more of a burden and liability than a blessing to save Pakistan in an event of war. The enemy doesn’t want a conventional war.
I actually laugh at those who have made their livelihood and lifestyle out of blaming military.
As an example, Pakistan is weak in R&D and that is where the universities need to take initiative. The consortium of local universities can produce quality engineers and scientists with resources to delve deep into different domains of R&D along with industry setup. There is no blockage to that.
Similarly, the civilian private hospitals are much ahead of CMH and MH in many domains. One reason is because military doctors see and check repetitive cases daily related to wounds etc. civilian setup sees much more complicated cases and the military doctors don’t get that exposure to a high level unless private practice flourishes. In any case private hospitals are on par or better than military hospitals but even then better medical expertise are sought overseas. Shame on Medical research in Pakistan then, military didn’t give orders to stop it.
you make it sound as if the army is some messiah that is taking over the role of the govt, the cadre and the politicians because of their enormous love for pakistan and their enormous sense of patriotism.
how come all these people settle in the west or saudi then?
how come they take so much money in salaries and pension for their generous help?
how come they live in veritable castles while the rest are pushed to penury.
I am sorry, the more you want us to be grateful to this bunch, the more frustrating it is. this is an army - read it out loud an army which has absolutely no accountability.
what if they screw up? are they going to be thrown out after elections every 5 years? - No
again - who gave them the authority to govern pakistan? is it in the constitution?
yeah. the poor army folks have to do the job. and they have to painfully live in DHAs while they actually want to be at the borders. why cant normal people do this? its just so much work for the army - to get pensions and jobs being in top positions of literally every govt institution - the army doesnt want to do it - but it has to. for the sake of the gullible pakistan civilians.
Don’t be grateful - be thankless but do take some realistic strips for betterment of Pakistan. The army will do what it can, you do what you can.
As I said, even Pharaoh believed that he's not going anywhere, the cheap of company isn't even an ant compare to him.
It's unfortunate that defense of the country in hands of duffers, that's why we have lost Eastern part, Siachen, couldn't get rest of J&K in 7+ decades, their misadventure caused war in 65, lost precious lives in Kargil. Suffering terrorism at home by their propped proxies and stupid policies.
You aren't even good at making jokes, what air of freedom? I am able to write my thoughts because I am not in open air prison of fascist and rouge militia, otherwise I would haven been abducted or put in jail like thousands others.
Another scam of company to justify their leaching of budget and national resources, Policies of duffers led the loss of Eastern wing, unrest in Baluchistan, and now almost all over the country. India have nothing to do with it.
Spoken like true brain washed Saffron chaddies of Bharat, they also tells everyone who doesn't agree with their ideology to go to Pakistan. Why not company (remains of British Raj) move to their masters, after all they have no role in Freedom movement as they were loyal servants of Raj, would have opened up fire on public had Raj not agreed to do partition.
If you want a change then make a change by realistic practical steps. Blaming army will get you nowhere. U can blame army all day all night and even in all your breaths but at the end of the day, you are just a headless chicken who will blab out hatred repeatedly.
Get out there and put ur money where your mouth is.
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