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Pakistani generals’ oath at the Kakul Academy and the bloody civilians – by Kamran Shafi | LUBP
PAKISTAN is the most happening place in the world where there is never a dull moment. So pronounced the Commando to a packed audience at Chatham House in London, to much laughter and mirth.
Happening place did the man call our poor and bleeding country that is reeling under the onslaught of murderous yahoos who do as they will, wherever they will?
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Fiends, let us quickly point out, who were suckled at the ample breast of the security establishment that the man himself headed for far too long. A period, let us also not forget, in which they were allowed to grow stronger and stronger still, due to his own disastrous policies of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.
Should he not be deeply ashamed of himself for talking so lightly of the hellfire our poor country is passing through?
But wait. Gen Musharraf also said: I love Pakistan and I would do anything for Pakistan. I took this oath at the Kakul Academy. For Pakistan one would be prepared to do anything. Hang on a minute. He took an oath at the Kakul Academy did he say?
What was the Kakul Academy to him, a man who violated one of the most basic precepts, an almost holy covenant, upon which every military academy is based: that of the honour system? When as a so-called gentleman cadet, he cheated in the nine-mile run and boasted about it in his nonsensical and ludicrous In the line of fire, even the title of which was plagiarised from one of Clint Eastwoods films of the same name? (Stand up, Humayun Gauhar).
For the information of the bloody civilians who might be reading this, a cadet would be relegated for taking a packet of cigarettes from the mess bar without signing for it.For cheating on the scale that Musharraf indulged in i.e. taking a shortcut in an endurance test, the punishment would be no less than being disgracefully drummed out of the academy after the badges of cadet rank (if any), shoulder flashes and cap badge, were cut off in front of the whole First Pakistan Battalion formed up on the parade ground.
So what oath, what academy does he talk about? I should have thought that the happening place where there is never a dull day would be Edgware Road, London and its shisha bars, where he lurks these days and not poor, bleeding Pakistan.
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If the army arrogates more and more powers to itself at GHQ outside the writ of the government, nothing is going to work.
Doesnt the opposition understand that whilst it may snigger at the present governments discomfort when the army takes it head-on (such as the ill-considered public outburst of fury by the generals at the Kerry-Lugar Bill, whilst themselves asking for American aid the very next week), it might be the next government of Pakistan. How will it rein in the (already) rampant army then?
Pakistani generals’ oath at the Kakul Academy and the bloody civilians – by Kamran Shafi | LUBP
PAKISTAN is the most happening place in the world where there is never a dull moment. So pronounced the Commando to a packed audience at Chatham House in London, to much laughter and mirth.
Happening place did the man call our poor and bleeding country that is reeling under the onslaught of murderous yahoos who do as they will, wherever they will?
....
Fiends, let us quickly point out, who were suckled at the ample breast of the security establishment that the man himself headed for far too long. A period, let us also not forget, in which they were allowed to grow stronger and stronger still, due to his own disastrous policies of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds.
Should he not be deeply ashamed of himself for talking so lightly of the hellfire our poor country is passing through?
But wait. Gen Musharraf also said: I love Pakistan and I would do anything for Pakistan. I took this oath at the Kakul Academy. For Pakistan one would be prepared to do anything. Hang on a minute. He took an oath at the Kakul Academy did he say?
What was the Kakul Academy to him, a man who violated one of the most basic precepts, an almost holy covenant, upon which every military academy is based: that of the honour system? When as a so-called gentleman cadet, he cheated in the nine-mile run and boasted about it in his nonsensical and ludicrous In the line of fire, even the title of which was plagiarised from one of Clint Eastwoods films of the same name? (Stand up, Humayun Gauhar).
For the information of the bloody civilians who might be reading this, a cadet would be relegated for taking a packet of cigarettes from the mess bar without signing for it.For cheating on the scale that Musharraf indulged in i.e. taking a shortcut in an endurance test, the punishment would be no less than being disgracefully drummed out of the academy after the badges of cadet rank (if any), shoulder flashes and cap badge, were cut off in front of the whole First Pakistan Battalion formed up on the parade ground.
So what oath, what academy does he talk about? I should have thought that the happening place where there is never a dull day would be Edgware Road, London and its shisha bars, where he lurks these days and not poor, bleeding Pakistan.
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If the army arrogates more and more powers to itself at GHQ outside the writ of the government, nothing is going to work.
Doesnt the opposition understand that whilst it may snigger at the present governments discomfort when the army takes it head-on (such as the ill-considered public outburst of fury by the generals at the Kerry-Lugar Bill, whilst themselves asking for American aid the very next week), it might be the next government of Pakistan. How will it rein in the (already) rampant army then?
