Jeez the past few years and more specifically months really have dealt a bad blow to the image of the army.
It is very recently that PDF has allowed members to post against the establishment. Earlier any such post used invite a ban, as late as an year back.
There has been a reluctance to accept that there has been a rot in the system. And this rot hasn’t started today.
I just read “
Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report” end to end. A report not by an Indian agency but very own Chief Justice of Pakistan. He quotes dates as back as 1958.
This is what he had to say -
“ 2. After analysing the evidence brought before the Commission, we came to the conclusion that the process of moral degeneration among the senior ranks of the Armed Forces was set in motion by their involvement in Martial Law duties in 1958, that these tendencies reappeared and were, in fact, intensified when Martial Law was imposed in the country once again in March 1969 by General Yahya Khan, and that there was indeed substance in the allegations that a considerable number of
senior Army Officers had not only indulged in large scale acquisition of lands and houses and other commercial activities, but had also adopted highly immoral and licentious ways of life which seriously affected their professional capabilities and their qualities of leadership. 3. We then offered specific comments on the conduct of certain high officers including the Commander, Eastern Command, Lt. Gen A.A.K. Niazi.”
And this isn’t even most damning piece in that report. Wine, women, financial misappropriation, you name it. It is all there.
What action was taken against these people? Was even their pension stopped? Is it possible that the rot was only restricted to those posted in the East? The current crop is just enjoying the fruits designed and devised by the system to milk the country for personal gains.