Tribune Take: Difficult for civilian govt to seek a military official's resignation
Zia Khan, reporter The Express Tribune Islamabad, says tensions are running high between the civilian and military leadership. In a National Assembly session on Thursday a female parliamentarian demanded that Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt General Ahmed Shuja Pasha should resign and face an inquiry based on the allegations that he had met some Arab leaders early this year to discuss a military coup in Pakistan.
Khan says that it is difficult for the civilian government to seek a military official's resignation, let alone asking the head of the ISI to resign and volunteer for an investigation.
Khan also says Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz's latest petition - asking the Supreme Court (SC) to summon Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (UK) Wajid Shamsul Hasan - is just an attempt to get political mileage out of the scandal.
Read Zia Khan’s articles here.
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@Jang: Qite AMAZING!!!
I as a true Pakistani trust the military much more than the civilian government!
I think most citizens have not understood what is a Democracy. A Democracy is a system of governance where the Government is run by leaders elected directly by the people. The constituted body of elected leaders is normally called Parliament. Parliament is the sole body that can make Laws, amend them and implement them. Every organ of the State is subservient to Parliament in any Democracy. Parliament is answerable only to the people and none else. After reading the above paragraph people must decide whether Pakistan is a Democracy or not.
@M. I. Aslam: "On one side is Mr Haqqani who deny but there are EVIDENCES against him which lead to his resignation not only by Mansoor Ijaz but also by BBMs , James Jones and Mike Mullen ….. now on the other side there is one statement by Mansoor Ijaz"
SO tribune had to write a whole article to explain this extremely obvious thing to us
If your politicians can't demand resignations of the military -- who can? You try and hold yourself out as a Democracy - well no Democracy works without leadership and leadership takes guts -- something that seem to be reserved for internet warriors only in Pakistan.
Difficult it maybe, agreed, but there is always a first time, least these law makers can do is have it on the record. Ms Gohar took the bold step, why can't these loud mouthed political leaders take the step, if they cant then they should be wearing the "Dupatta "
This is a strange article , I fail to understand the resemblance between the two cases ...... On one side is Mr Haqqani who deny but there are EVIDENCES against him which lead to his resignation not only by Mansoor Ijaz but also by BBMs , James Jones and Mike Mullen ..... now on the other side there is one statement by Mansoor Ijaz in which he says that SOME US INTELLIGENCE official told him about mysterious activities of DG ISI in Arab States and he himself has told on various Pakistani tv news channels ( I ve heard him on 2 channels) that he cannot prove this about DG ISI's activities and its only media which is SPINNING (he used the same word on Geo) the case to shift the blame on ISI and hide the actual case. now the same thing is being done through this news item ......... i dont care about any one who works against Pakistan and constitution may it be a civilian or a uniformed person but media MUST not SPIN the statements
i think Pakistan political leadership should first deliever something to people and than think of confronting military .Otherwise it looks to me you are only fighting for your share of Cake. couple of years ago a survery was done and 98% of Pakistanis were against a civilian chief of ISI. you can imagine. There are evidances against Haqqani while against Pasha only allegations.