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In reality, Bipin Rawat is on extension, in any other professional army he would have been fired after dismal failure on 2/27
General Bajwa is given an extension because it is the government's prerogative to keep the chief of Army, Navy or Airforce as long is it wants. there is no prescribed tenure for any of the service chiefs.
The normal process for extension is
- The PM holds a cabinet meeting about the extension.
- The cabinet agrees to the extension.
- A notification of this extension is forwarded to the President.
- The President signs off on the extension. Done.
The President on 12 September 2019 says, he's still not received any extension notification to sign off.
Some unknown individual files a petition in the Supreme Court that General Bajwa does will not have a legal extension after 29 November 2019 because the President has neither received an extension notification nor he's signed it off.
Still, by 25 November 2019, the PM does not bother to hold a cabinet meeting but leads the nation to believe that General Bajwa has the extension.
On 26 November 2019, the Supreme Court rejects the extension.
Of course, by 26 November 2019, the PM is forced to hold two emergency cabinet meeting, a lawyer is sacked, cabinet approves, President signs off and the court is like what is all this nonsense? Government says, they didn't know the process for extension. Supreme Court says okay and give the General only six months extension in which time Government is asked to learn and set up a method for giving extension.
Today, on 20 December 2019, the Government still has not initiated a process for giving extension ?