Hello,
I don't know how many of you are concerned about this, but I am.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, whose counterpart is our Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi -- directly called GHQ, bypassing the foreign office, and the Prime Minister office and had a conversation with the Army Chief a day after they assassinated the Iranian General.
Two days later, US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, whose counterpart is our Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, broke protocol and directly opened a line with GHQ and talked to the Army Chief Gen. Bajwa.
Point to note here is, General Bajwa is outranked by at least 3 officials, the CJCSC, the Defence Secretary, and our Defence Minister, at least on paper.
Either, the Americans are upto something they don't trust our civilian Government with, or this is just an attempt to embarrass the Prime Minister and his Government.
At least as a voter, I feel disrespected, imagine what the PM must be feeling about all of this.
His tweet about sending FM to meet representatives of US, Iran and KSA, and Army Chief to get in touch with 'relevant military leaders' shows there's some realisation of this.
What do you all think?