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Don't make it his problem when some members shamelessly choose to ignore what the Army has to say about the matter. There is nothing hidden about this security responsibility assigned to our nation's military (both the Army and the Navy) to safeguard and secure Gwadar. People want to...

Yes, ask these tough questions of the ones ruling the interior of Sind first. Your selective questioning betrays bias. Where was all the questioning of the servants and outcry when hundreds (possibly thousands) of kids died (and may still be dying) in Sind on account of malnutrition? Where...

It's a bitter pill which is why the politicians (never fiscally conservative) and the hapless sheep don't want to understand IMF programs. There are many examples in SE Asia and Europe that have stuck with the IMF programs to recover their economies for the long term. We are on something like...

Lol! As if IMF is holding its breath to give relief to Pakistan over our "free and fair" elections.

Laton kay bhoot baton say nahi maantay...only the financial dunda works. We have never completed an IMF program, ever! That should tell you how much we give. For good or bad that is why the economy is always sputtering. Some Pakistani experts, from time to time after waking up from their...

I am sure you are right about how evil our army is.

You are always entitled to your opinion, but some balance may help. As an example, "peaceful protestors" choking the port of Karachi. I wonder how many would be okay with it. Factually speaking, the security of Gwadar port and corridor is within the area of responsibility of the Pakistan...

Unfortunately, the ones living in a fool's paradise are those here who firmly believe that no favors were owed to the PTI enterprise by the much maligned establishment or that the same much maligned establishment should now step in to accelerate the polls or that political engineering should...

Lt Gen Asif Ghafoor was on point. He was there overseeing relief work and some idiots want to discuss politics of the country and bash his service. If people can ask silly questions, the chap is entitled to be direct as well. Why this oversensitivity with this nonsense about "yeh hamaray...

Shukar/TG, finally consensus on at least one thing!

Pat Mcadoo was all praise for the PAF pilots. Good man!

Thus the use of the word "recent" as in this current round. ;-)

I am not sure how this could have happened (if we are talking about the very first F-16s) because the same initial pilots that went to train on the F-16s ferried our blk-15s back. Unless you are suggesting the USAF ferried them to KSA and then our pilots flew them back to Sargodha. Don't...

How is the Army stopping them from being called? Its up to the incumbent government to call early elections. This recent "carefully manufactured process" started in 2017 so its not unique to the incumbents.

Yes, and the politicians had no hand in it? Right! Solution is simple. Convert Gwader into a strategic, high-security zone and disallow protests around it and call it a day. Demonstrations can be held at many other places but traffic, trade going in and out of the port cannot be hindered. No...

When the army wants to distance itself then you insist that it should wade into politics and get early elections called. Pick your poison. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Exactly. Imran Khan very conveniently leaves this part out in all his talk about bombings in FATA. This was a cost that had to be borne to have Taliban in Afghanistan. For wrong or right, that policy was in currency then.

My friend, the army is doing what is constitutional. A government is in place. Its tenure runs out next year and that is when elections would be held. Why would the army step in now after vowing neutrality or an apolitical stance by wading into early elections again? The technocrat...

The army is rightfully "apolitical". Even if we say it is not, it should absolutely try to be apolitical. While the PTI brigade keeps on calling on the army to weigh in and get involved, if it does then the PDM side will do the exact thing that PTI is doing to it right now. Of its own making...