Usually, armed forces personnel bachelor/families also reside in the cantonments, so limited shopping facilities must be allowed, PAF cinema at Chaklala base (present Nur Khan) is there since the decade of the 50s. Those who do not have knowledge about such amenities in cantonments should refrain from knee-jerk reactions. Armed forces personnel are human beings like civilians in the first place.
In Pakistan, whenever a calamity/major accident/drownings hit, whole Pakistan used to call armed forces, but usually opposes their rights for living in their own colonies. What are Airport Employees Housing Society/Judicial Town/PIA Employees housing society just Google and there are such mushroomed societies everywhere in Pakistan? Seems there is something not well with those who oppose only DHA.
Wedding halls are the latest consideration. Well, armed forces should respect honourable judge's remarks and remove such places, they could use the armed forces messes/halls by paying the subsidised amount for their personal functions, those will be far better places than commercial wedding halls.
I don't really want to get into any deep argument with people like you, who would advocate license to murder to the Armed forces as long as it suits their own personal agendas.
However, I wonder how even people like you fail to see the FACT that the Army eats a MAJOR chunk of our economy and has the largest pool of manpower, most of which does nothing but sit in barracks during peacetime and hence it is only natural to call upon the most budgeted, most loaded, most resourceful and the only organization with hundreds of thousands of available human resources round the clock in emergencies because guess what, that is what they are there for, to assist in emergencies in situations in which the Federal Government calls upon them.
So, basically, even though I am confident that this is beyond your understanding, the Army is doing NOTHING which is NOT already in their mandate and the insinuation or advocation that they go beyond the call of duty is rather short sighted and petty. Because as far as I know, if need arises, many of us would be willing to take and or give life for our country side by side our soldiers.
P.S. Many of you also need to look what soldiers around the world do when interests of their countries are threatened.......from US to UK to Australia to Europe!
What that idiot judge does not understand is even if they are making money, the will reduce the defence burden.
Instead of training his guns on the corrupt politicians he is focusing on the military.
Unfortunately, the money goes into private pockets as opposed to the Military accounts. All commercial activities are for personal gains only, none of them benefit the Military in any official (or unofficial) capacity.