Gul is "misguided" for winning a War against the Soviet Commies and quietly accepting and agreeing to be cornered and forcefully retired, but Musharraf the "more" knowledgeable rebellious dictator is the "enlightened" one for hijacking the country with his gang of thugs, and over throwing a democratically elected Govn't, and later imposing a war on the country costing 10s of thousands of innocent lives.
Yes, yes, Gul singlehandedly won the war against the Soviets with his super human talents. No one else was involved. Gimme a friggin' break.
Gul hijacked the country when he formed the IJI to undermine a democratically elected government. This is on record. Many politicians have now come out and openly admitted that Gul's men gave them money to fund campaigns against the PPP. Gul was also involved in the wrongful character assassination of political leaders him and his godfather had an issue with. The most lewd sort of materials were published and distributed on his instructions. But now, of course, he becomes the champion of Islam very conveniently.
Even today, Gul is hijacking the goals of the present military establishment yet again by being the mouthpiece for the Afghan Taliban. He keeps talking about a state of "confusion" where the people don't "know the enemy". Well, I think we clearly know who the enemy is. It's people like him who are indirectly weakening the hand of the military and sabotaging the operations in progress by claiming that the Hakeemullah/Baitullah brigade would "stand shoulder to shoulder" with the Pakistan Army, that they are "assets" and the war against them is "unnatural". These are all things he says in his interview. Do you think the war against the TTP is an unnatural campaign against our assets? This is bull$hit and an insult to the men and women laying down their lives to defend this country. Mr. Gul needs to put a lid on Pan-Islamist dreams of conquering the world.
Gul is misguiding people by painting the Afghan Taliban in a positive light and by making statements such as, "The Taliban are the future of Afghanistan". He doesn't have a beard. He himself would be whipped with his head shaved bare were he living under Afghan Taliban rule. This is what they did to the soccer team that went visiting during their rule... or do you now conveniently forget the wonders of the Afghan Taliban during the time of the "Khilafat" or the one eyed so called emir-al-momineen.
Finally, he is borderline mad. He actually says in this video interview, "I wish America would attack Pakistan... at least it will end the confusion". What am asinine, moronic statement... this is completely out of line, incoherent thinking that is far removed from the policy and approach of the present military establishment in the country.
What would happen if Indians start cursing Gen Kayani? Would you take them to the task or simply ignore that as well just as you do ignore their mindless rants against rtd Gen Gul?
Abusive language is not tolerated here. Against anyone. Would you like for it to be otherwise?
So being higher in rank really means having more knowledge? And by virtue of being in a higher authority translates to superiority in knowledge? Going by this logic, the supreme leader and president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, is then more knowledgeable than Musharraf I guess.
Well, you either didn't read what I wrote or failed to comprehend it. Gen. Musharraf was the COAS AND the President. Zardari is not the COAS, and hopefully that's not news to you. My other point was that Musharraf ran things for a much longer period of time and more recently. By every measure, the access he had to more relevant and current information far exceeds what Gul would be privy to. By Gul's own admission in this video interview, the current high command of the armed forces - including the COAS and the CJCSC - refuse to even speak to him. There must be something perverted in his thinking when he is repeatedly shunned by even the military establishment.
Your logic is clearly failing the litmus test here.
God knows who is the satan, but your comment is paradoxical. On one hand Musharraf massacred the Mullahs for openly beating the prostitutes in the streets killing many innocents in the process and on the other hand he completely let the TTP thugs roam freely and take over cities in the back. But then maybe to you buldozing a mosque run by a few misguided fools and killing them and many innocents is more important than conceding territory to alien TTP thugs.
I don't see a paradox. I'll gladly add the TTP to the list of those I wish to see "go up in a puff of smoke" to borrow a phrase from Gen. Gul.
TTP should be bombed until it is annihilated. No argument there. There were army ops launched during Musharraf's tenure, but there was a large segment of society under the influence of the illiterate Jamaat and Jamiat mullahs who kept thinking that the TTP was really comprised of "innocent" or at worst, "misguided" people. That was a bunch of crap, as it has now been borne out. All these right wing sw1nes with nothing better to do in life than to bomb and kill need to be eliminated.
