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Praise, don’t criticise, the army (III)

Letter December 09, 2010
George Fulton's article reminds me of the oft-repeated phrase that three As run Pakistan: Allah, America and the Army.

ISLAMABAD: George Fulton's article reminds me of the oft-repeated phrase that three As run Pakistan: Allah, America and the Army.

I wonder if Pakistan is not being run but ruined as a punishment for our collective misdeeds and neither America nor the Army can go against the will of Almighty Allah.

To quote from Rubaiyat-e-Omar Khayyam: "The Moving Finger writes, and having writ moves on; not all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line; nor all your tears wash a word of it."

Jameel Bhutto

Former federal secretary

Published in The Express Tribune, December 9th, 2010.