General Qamar Javed Bajwa has taken over the army command today from General Raheel Sharif. The other day Mr. Talat Hussain (who regards himself not less than Walter Lippman or Naom Chomsky of Pakistan) prepared a “To Do List” for the incoming Army Chief, in which he quite understandably failed to include a key objective—to purge the country’s key institutions of the elements that pose a threat to the National Security.
He however went out of the way to dub the outgoing Army Chief as a publicity-seeker and a man keenly interested in self-projection. One wishes Talat Hussain should have thrown light on the objective or the objectives behind his exercises in self-projection. Whether Talat Hussain-likes it or not, the Military Commanders are the ones who write their names in history. Think of the second world war, and you will at once remember the names of General McCarther, General Eisenhower, General Montgomery and General Romel. The key decisions were made by them. Similarly the key decisions in the three years ending today were taken by the man whom Talat Hussain is dubbing as the villain of the era.
Look at the key decisions.
1) Forced the government to launch the Zarb-e-Azb operation that is recognized the worldover as a major success story in mountain-guerilla warfare.
2) Forced the government to launch National Action Plan as a result of which Karachi is a safer place to live in, and that sent shock-waves of fear in the ranks of the Corrupt, the Rich and the Mighty.
3) Stood behind the CIA Chief General Zaheer in 2014 when a media-group (with connections abroad, and with the backing of the Federal Government) launched a vicious vilification campaign to discredit the ISI and its leadership.
I will not go into details. I want Talat Hussain to answer one simple question. “To what end was General Raheel Sharif engaged in self-projection? Did he use his popularity to overthrow a government that virtually had started personifying Corruption and Misrule?
Let history be the judge Mr. Talat Hussain!
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