Obviously, the military may function like a monolith but it is composed of individuals and they do have their own opinions. I for one was opposed to the the matter on the very first day when this dreaded tweet was sent out. I noted then that these are institutional matters and cannot be consigned to public 180 characters, they have to be resolved through official channels. They goofed up when they decided to pressurize the government by polarizing public opinion between those who support the military and those who support the government. Statecraft doesn't work that way.
As a result of that goof up, public trust in the institution has suffered. Our people are very sentimental, even towards the end of Musharraf's tenure when the military's public image was at its lowest ebb, I had to travel in civvies and change into the uniform when in office because the public and specifically lawyers would pelt our cars with stones. I'd rather not see that happening again. Imagine a person fresh out of combat having to go through that, its not easy.
Unfortunately the nation at the moment is suffering from the effects of institutional immaturity and overlap. Over the decades, the military has filled in for almost all institutions in Pakistan. The civilian institutions don't do their job and the military comes and does it for them, that's how its worked for the longest of times.
Now, the courts are simply shirking their responsibility by passing the buck onto JITs, the JITs are then passing the buck onto the the military representatives in the JITs. The report's contents are not being released to the public and the public in turn, tired of waiting, no longer want justice, they have already conducted their own media trial, identified their own criminals and already decided on their punishment.
They now want the military to reaffirm their bias on the matter and the fact that the military is unable to do so because it lacks the constitutional authority, makes the matter increasingly complex. The military tried to compensate by showing the people it was on their side by making the dreaded "rejected" tweet but it backfired spectacularly and now there's a massive breach of trust; with the public reduced to a swirling mass of hate and loathing.
Meanwhile, Ajit Doval must be amazed at how easy his job was made by our own self-destruct mechanism.