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Yes. The kind of arrogance on display illustrates how broad and deep the rot in the Army leadership is. It really is beginning to look like the Army that has butchered the constitution and the country through so many military coups needs its own internal revolution to discard the power hungry...

Wow. Crass and insensitive. I understand that it was a political question by the flood victims that targeted the Army leaderships violation of the constitution in overthrowing an elected government, but Ghafoora should have displayed some decency and civility. Basically, ‘don’t question the...

This was a necessary step - this case is a distraction and needs to be sidelined. There are other, bigger battles to fight and action against one judge, no matter how incompetent, is not going to fix the justice system.

We are on track to quite quickly become a dysfunctional failed state. It’s precisely these kinds of actions (that the Army leadership and PDM are engaging in) that result in dysfunctional failed states.

In that case, why don’t we just announce our merger into North Korea?

Yes - as we discussed in another thread, the Army leadership and the PDM both have a long history and a lot of experience in managing public pressure. At the moment it appears that the focus is on prevent public outrage from crossing the point of no control by controlling the media and banning...

I am sure all the Western human rights and pro democracy and freedom of speech organizations and governments are scrambling to voice their outrage over the fascist crackdown by the Army leadership and PDM Coalition on civil rights, freedom of speech, fair trial and media freedom ..

That's not how this works. Regardless of how charismatic and popular a leader/politician is, the masses will heed calls for mass protests or marches only when the masses themselves are suffering and share the pain and anguish of said popular leadership. What Khan is doing is necessary - he is...

My criticism was directed specifically at the higher Army leadership for focussing more on meddling in politics rather than force protection and capacity improvements for COIN operations. “Maybe more focus on actual military affairs by the Army leadership …” I have nothing but the utmost...

How many decades has it been that the Army and FC continue to take these kinds of casualties. Maybe more focus on actual military affairs by the Army leadership instead of overthrowing elected governments and abducting and torturing PTI leaders, supporters and pro-PTI media and anchors would...

The belief is that this won’t end with General Bajwa, and that the current policies of repression, abductions, torture and frivolous legal cases against the PTI and crackdown on any pro-PTI media will continue with the next Chief of Violation of the Constitution aka Chief of Army Staff. IK is...

Good, at least now you admit that the Army leadership is not ‘neutral’ but are essentailly a corrupt political party interfering in the civilian institutions.

How many decades long impeccable meritorious service did the dictator Ayub Khan have before his demolition of the constitution and rigging and propaganda against Fatimah Jinnah? How many decades long impeccable meritorious service did the dictator Yahya Khan have before his demolition of the...

A political narrative!? Are you denying what the dictator, self-appointed Field Marshal Ayoub Khan, did to Fatima Jinnah? Are you denying what his successor, another dictator, General Yahya Khan did in East Pakistan? Are you denying what the dictator, General Zia-ul-Haq, did to ZA Bhutto, and...

If you really believe that, then give me examples of what the PTI did that was comparable to what is happening to the PTI now.

I'd argue that the sudden collapse was precisely because of the extreme mismanagement of the incoming Army imposed PDM coalition and yes, political instability did play a major role because the PDM itself was divided. Since we can't turn back time and play out both scenarios, the facts on the...

This isn’t just one general - it is a series of traitorous bastards in uniform going back to Ayub Khan and his officers corps, who degraded and humiliated Fatimah Jinnah and rigged the system and elections against her. It continued with Yahya Khan and the debacle of 1971. Some of the these...

You mean limited vanity projects primarily in Lahore - he’s a Mayor, and not even a good one, as can be seen with his incompetence as PM. Contrast Shahbaz’s limited vanity projects with Imran Khans massive welfare programs such as rolling out universal healthcare in KP & Punjab and the...

One of the most important factors, if not THE most important, for economic growth and investor confidence is political stability - the ‘battle’ that Miftah fought was the result of the conspiracy his own party engaged in with the Army to overthrow the PTI government that in turn caused and...