Not surprisingly, the writer is defending the incompetence and non-reaction of the air force.
CHANTILLY, VA, US: This is with reference to Shahzad Chaudhry’s article of December 5 titled “Other side of Salala”. Not surprisingly, the writer, who is a retired senior PAF officer, is defending the incompetence and non-reaction of the air force. As a reader, or a concerned person, I am not interested in a technical discussion. However, I am very interested in knowing why the PAF and its fancy airborne surveillance equipment paid for by my taxes did not respond to the Nato action.
Prior to this, were the orders given to the units that they not engage if fired upon? If that is the case, then it needs to be asked: why have an air force at all?
Meekal Ahmed
Published in The Express Tribune, December 6th, 2011.
