There are many reasons why Military officers were asked to uninstall watsapp and ditch smart phones. The privacy of wats app is questionable.
Also Watsapp was breached by Sigs Dte years ago.
and Facebook.
That's why they shifted to Signal and Telegram!
But I have still seen some 2 star officers using whatsapp for 'not to be said openly' discussions...poor practice on their part.
[*]PDM tries to derail anti money laundering and anti terrorist financing regulations brought into to comply with FATF which was also a condition precedent to IMF programme: not anti-state
Oh actually thanks for bringing this point up.
A big criticism of PTI govt was that it needed the estab to bring people and coalition partners in to vote, especially on the FATF and IMF bills.
So why were PPP and PML and others openly against the State Bank Bill, IMF bill, WACOG, and many others? If those bills hadn't been passed, the IMF program would have definitely been derailed, rather than the ifs and buts and maybes we have now. Why was Bilawal, and Ahsan Iqbal, and others shouting on the top of their lungs against the IMF bill? Tab woh mulk dushmani nhn thi?
Oh wait, us waqt agr IMF loan na deta to we would have been freed from capitalist shackles and been a free nation, and Kashmir wouldn't need to be sold out...but abhi IMF loan na deta to we would be defaulting. Us waqt IMF loan ki mukhalfat hubb-ul-watni thi, by actually voting against the required bills in the NA (a much more formal process), magr ab aik simple non-binding and inter-departmental letter (which simply states a force majeure event and receivables) likhna ghaddari hai?
You have to hand it to N, their media strategy is totally on point aur sahafat khareednay ka fayeda hota hai in the end. PTI is pathetic in this regard, something they even admit themselves. I asked one former PTI minister about this, and he simply said 'Hamaray pas itnay paisay nhn hain"