Well, the General was clearly referring to American threats of aid termination if Pakistan refuses to comply with their demands
I'm really don't know what he was talking about -- if as you suggest he was talking about relations with the US, let me say, that perhaps the Premier and the President ought to be the ones articulating policy - the armed forces and Kiyani as a representative, must be ahead of the curve, and really the Pakistan Fauj can no longer play a political element in Pakistan it once did -- it's just not possible int he same way it was before, it was a different world, a different Pakistan.
Someone here has asked what is so "honorable" about being poor and underdeveloped? Allow me to add, what is so honorable about preventing prosperity??
The usual suspects who enjoy playing more catholic than the Pope, will come on the scene and as who is preventing the "civilian politicians" from making such a statement - well, what politician wants to suggest that we fore go prosperity to uphold honor? What politician even comes up with that kind of equation?
Is China a model for development? It had better be in Pakistan (and all the world, not just India should support that model) -- Do the Chinese political leadership continue to assert that "it is glorious to be rich" and they do not make these crazy equation that find such currency in among a section of opinion that is essentially at war with modernity and is wedded to a notion of militaristic and violent notion of "honor" - - lets move away from these notions, lets infuse them with values that place the interests of Pakistanis at the forefront, the interests of the armed forces will follow.
So does that mean I am suggesting that we fall in line with US diktat?
Come on, now - why even think in those terms, support for independent policy depends on a strong, read PROSPEROUS, Pakistan - if you want ot be independent of the US and her aid, if you want an end to these petty tyrants running around calling themselves, parliamentarians and democrats, you should be support a prosperous Pakistan - Honor does not exist in poverty, If you enjoy seeing Ghairatmand Pakistan with her begging bowl pretending to seem strong, if you enjoy Pakistanis arguing violently about what is Islam, if you enjoy seeing beheaded Pakistani soldiers and if you enjoy seeing Pakistanis desperate to escape the "Islamic republic" anyway they can, bet on denying Pakistanis prosperity, in the name of honor.