Read your own question twice with respect to the topic and you'll see how useless your questions are.......the topic was Pakistani generals support for militants and the current Army Chief trying to clean it up, which is his job, but your military like it did for the 60 years, is spending time and effort in over glorifying him. While it is HIS JOB to get civilian order and deploy right away and finish the mission. But the military, to retain is "over glorified role" in Pakistan, is showing Gen. RS as a Messiah. When he is JUST fixing the crap previous generals started.
Now, the sad media machine of the military is trying to take credit or the stock market,the investments and all. When it is ALL current government's effort. Even a critic like IK said it yesterday, that he gives credit to NS for the peace and stability that has been brought about due to Zarb-Azb. But here, you people, as always, are over writing the civilian efforts by constantly using illiterate Pakistanis through the media and hiding the military's faults, and blaming everything onto the civilians, who, for the first time (unlike 60 dark years of the military rule) have worked had to create a new modern and peaceful Pakistan
Now what the hell the US has to do anything with this? Don't derail the thread, open up a new thread on the US and I'll debate you there. This is a purely Pakistani military and civilian's rated thread based on OP's article of over glorifying Pakistani Military. 60+ years of darkness and minus 200% human development and you people turn your face away from the actual problem. That is the military operates on civilian policies and doesn't steal the government as it is incompetent to run a country and that's not their job!!
This right here tells me how much you know about life and economics in general and how much poisonous military propaganda is in your head. Another "imaginary issue"!!
The dollar doesn't go Up or Down because the world is SO concerned with a tiny little country like Pakistan!!!! The inflation kicks in every few years. Now if you are getting pumped billions of dollars (Afghan War, and then WOT), you can remain the dollar cost at low.
What the fukk does dollar has to do with human growth in Pakistan, or lack of it exercised by the military for over60 years? Lt's say the dollar is 200 rupees or 55 rupees......what difference does it make to the people of Pakistan (poor people, over 150 MILLION of them)???? NOTHING!!!!! They wanted roads, schools, opportunity, jobs, better parks, transportation, better benefits, better homes throughout the 60 years of "low dollar value" as you put it. But despite the "low dollar to rupee" ratio, did the not-so-economic-savvy military do something for the people? FUKK NO!! So the dollar ended up getting into the pockets of Mushy, his core commander buddies and others.
Gen. Kiyani just did a plea bargain to return 6.7 billion rupees (all corruption), so his name can be kept in dark. Can you tell me why? Mushy's son now has hundreds of millions worth of assets in the US and across. Mushy's buddies and even a couple of members ON PDF, (ex-Pak military) living in Turkey and other places washed their hands with millions of dollars.......so what did the "low dollar value" do for the people? NOTHING. Your military is just as corrupt as the civilian leadership!!
What the people need was work for them, better transportation, better education, schools, etc, etc. No military rule provided it. So I'd take a higher dollar BUT a civilian system who does provide stuff for the PEOPLE. Period!!!! And it is happening now.
Your generals have never ALLOWED a civilian rule to be completed. In the US, the people try to elect one President two terms (unless he fukks it up real bad), WHY? because they know it takes a few years to understand the issues and create policies. The later half of the first term is when you start to make changes at a larger country base, and it takes a few years to see the results. Obama's economic growth policy was implemented a couple of years after he took the power. The results were seen day before YESTERDAY. When the US Fed, increase the interest rate in like 8 years as the economy is not only back, the market is at its historic highest. Does this tell you how a system works?
Now, since this is going to be a system fulfilling her time, the Dams, Schools, Jobs, Tax base and all, will increase more than the past 70 years of Pakistan's life!!!! So the civilian rulers doing the work, porduces more results all around than ALL past 70 years combined. The military rule of 60 years, couldn't produce 20% of what these guys are going to produce in their 5 years!!!!! But it seems like now the military wants to play some more tricks and claim the economic growth also. Not realizing that this time, any screw up from the power hungry few generals will result in Egypt style coupe. Where the military will deal with millions of its civilians and the country would probably break.
'The military follows the civilian policies, end of the story. They salute the Premier and when asked to, they leave their belt behind and still leave with a salute. Anything else NOW, will mean the military vs. civilians in millions and probably a break up of the country. People have been sick and tired of living in darkness while the military generals get richer and don't do shiit for the people, and nor do they have the sense to.
If you see the economic growth.....it had ALREADY started after NS announced his policies. Before the sit-ins, the Chinese and the Turkish presidents were going to come, in the middle of such bad situation. When NS cut these deals, he told these guys he would clean up the mess of terrorism. Had he not provided the $$$$ and the support, your military can't mobilize 20,000 troops without someone footing the bill. Back then, Pakistan was about to go broke and bankrupt. How do you think your military would've carried out any operation if there wasn't political and financials backing???? Would these generals return the corruption money and commissions to create a fund to support military deployments in FATA
. NO!! Its NS and his government who did that and provided whatever was necessary!!
NS ordered the military to go clean up the terrorists, which is military's job to do (which were there and breeding for over two decades and no military general could do jack shiit). Even in the US, the governors have called the National Guards and the Army as need be. No iffs and butts. That's their job.
One of my special forces buddy and I were at a party, someone asked him about Obama as Obama had JUST taken power. My buddy responded " we don't comment on politics and civilian matters, the civilian government makes the policies, and when the Commander-in-Chief orders, we go execute those!! Enough said!!!!
All of them have college education, a basic requirements in 99% of the countries of the world to be in the office. Plus, what qualifications do the military generals bring to the table? People like Zia and Mushy couldn't TALK properly and were abusive and cheap when they addressed their own people and civilian leaders. You think in a modern country a military general can arrest or hang an elected PM on made up charges of treason? Sounds like Saddam, Kadhafi, Zia, Mushy, Sudanese general, ALL become generals by going to the SAME fanatics school of thought!!!!
What did, supposedly "Oxford educated" IK brought to the table? Embarrassing children like abusive speeches, the sit-ins, the scary politics that nearly collided Pathans vs. Punjabis and started a civil war till he was told to STFU by the establishment due to the drama of Pashtunistan????
So fukk the qualifications, as long as someone meets the basic criteria AND produces for the PEOPLE of Pakistan, that's what matters. And the current government is producing a LOT for Pakistan. Their legacy is established. 550K military men and their supporting families can NEVER suspend the constitution, the rights of 200 MILLION people ever again in the future, you can mark my words.
What a question
. Coming from a person who supports Dictatorship!!!!!! Ask yourself the question and you'll have an answer. Pakistan doesn't have Monarchy btw!!
Absolutely, the illiterate person may not have the education, but he does understand which political candidate is promising what. And which candidate HE voted for, has delivered what. That doesn't require a PHD. In five years, if the illiterate candidates don't see hospitals, schools, roads or jobs they were promised, they'll vote for someone else. Unlike a Dictatorship....where NO progress report ever comes out. If you question a dictator, you might lose your life!!!!!! See the difference?
Something tells me because your love for the military rule, because either you being a part of it or belong to a military family in Pakistan, your thoughts won't change. But like I said, 550K soldiers, their supporters and families, CAN NOT overwrite 200 MILLION voters, the one the military rule ignored for 60 years and didn't give them a DIME's worth of money!!
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